Search Results - "Vale, Gillian L"

Compassion Fatigue in Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Caregivers: Prevalence, Contributing Factors, and Coping Mechanisms by Leinwand, Jesse G., Vale, Gillian L.

“…Compassion fatigue (CF) refers to the exhaustion and distress caused by the demands of caring for others. CF occurs in a variety of helping professions,…”
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Testing Three Primate Species' Attentional Biases Toward Preferred and Unpreferred Foods: Seeing Red or High Valued Food? by Vale, Gillian L., Leinwand, Jesse G., Joshi, Priyanka B.

“…Animals navigate complex environments that present both hazards and essential resources. The prioritization of perceptual information that is relevant to their…”
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Collective knowledge and the dynamics of culture in chimpanzees by Whiten, Andrew, Harrison, Rachel A, McGuigan, Nicola, Vale, Gillian L, Watson, Stuart K

“…Social learning in non-human primates has been studied experimentally for over 120 years, yet until the present century this was limited to what one individual…”
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Responses to Economic Games of Cooperation and Conflict in Squirrel Monkeys ( Saimiri boliviensis ) by Vale, Gillian L, Williams, Lawrence E, Schapiro, Steven J, Lambeth, Susan P, Brosnan, Sarah F

“…Games from experimental economics have provided insights into the evolutionary roots of social decision making in primates and other species. Multiple primate…”
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Foundations of cumulative culture in apes: improved foraging efficiency through relinquishing and combining witnessed behaviours in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by Davis, Sarah J., Vale, Gillian L., Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Whiten, Andrew

“…A vital prerequisite for cumulative culture, a phenomenon often asserted to be unique to humans, is the ability to modify behaviour and flexibly switch to more…”
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Acquisition of a socially learned tool use sequence in chimpanzees: Implications for cumulative culture by Vale, Gillian L, Davis, Sarah J, Lambeth, Susan P, Schapiro, Steven J, Whiten, Andrew

“…Abstract Cumulative culture underpins humanity's enormous success as a species. Claims that other animals are incapable of cultural ratcheting are prevalent,…”
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Leveling the Playing Field in Studying Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Nonhuman Animal Research by Rawlings, Bruce S., Legare, Cristine H., Brosnan, Sarah F., Vale, Gillian L.

“…Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE), the improvement of cultural traits over generations via social transmission, is widely believed to be unique to humans…”
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Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees by Vale, Gillian L., Flynn, Emma G., Kendal, Jeremy, Rawlings, Bruce, Hopper, Lydia M., Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Kendal, Rachel L.

“…Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human…”
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A Comparative Approach to the Study of Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Go? by Vale, Gillian L., Rawlings, Bruce S.

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Lack of conformity to new local dietary preferences in migrating captive chimpanzees by Vale, Gillian L., Davis, Sarah J., van de Waal, Erica, Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Whiten, Andrew

“…Conformity to the behavioural preferences of others can have powerful effects on intragroup behavioural homogeneity in humans, but evidence in animals remains…”
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Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use by Watson, Stuart K., Vale, Gillian L., Hopper, Lydia M., Dean, Lewis G., Kendal, Rachel L., Price, Elizabeth E., Wood, Lara A., Davis, Sarah J., Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Whiten, Andrew

“…Studies of transmission biases in social learning have greatly informed our understanding of how behaviour patterns may diffuse through animal populations, yet…”
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The impact of care on chimpanzee welfare: A comprehensive review by Angley, Laura P., Vale, Gillian L., Cronin, Katherine A.

“…Animal welfare research has increased dramatically in scope and prevalence, spanning zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and research facilities. Chimpanzees are the…”
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Why do chimpanzees have diverse behavioral repertoires yet lack more complex cultures? Invention and social information use in a cumulative task by Vale, Gillian L., McGuigan, Nicola, Burdett, Emily, Lambeth, Susan P., Lucas, Amanda, Rawlings, Bruce, Schapiro, Steven J., Watson, Stuart K., Whiten, Andrew

“…Humans are distinctive in their dependence upon products of culture for survival, products that have evolved cumulatively over generations such that many…”
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Testing differential use of payoff-biased social learning strategies in children and chimpanzees by Vale, Gillian L., Flynn, Emma G., Kendal, Jeremy, Rawlings, Bruce, Hopper, Lydia M., Schapiro, Steven J., Lambeth, Susan P., Kendal, Rachel L.

“…Various non-human animal species have been shown to exhibit behavioural traditions. Importantly, this research has been guided by what we know of human…”
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