Teaching in wild meerkats

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5784, 2006, Pages 227-229

  Thornton, Alex ^a   McAuliffe, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

CRITICAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NONHUMAN ANIMALS; PREY-PROVISIONING METHODS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PREY CAPTURE; TEACHING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MEERKAT; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SKILL RETENTION; SURICATA SURICATTA; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HERPESTIDAE; LEARNING; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; SURICATA SURICATTA;

EID: 33746010566     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1128727     Document Type: Article

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21. H. and J. Kotze kindly allowed us to work on their land, and the Northern Cape Conservation Authority granted permission to conduct the research. We are grateful for the support of the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria and for the help of N. Jordan, T. Flower, N. Tayar, and volunteers who contributed to data collection. L. Hollen allowed us the use of some begging call recordings. We thank T. Clutton-Brock for supervision and access to the meerkats and S. Hodge, J. Gilchrist, K. Isvaran, A. Radford, N. Raihani, S. English, and A. Young for discussion and advice. The work was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council studentship to A.T.