Cultural Transmission of Tool Use in Bottlenose Dolphins

In Shark Bay, wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) apparently use marine sponges as foraging tools. We demonstrate that genetic and ecological explanations for this behavior are inadequate; thus, "sponging" classifies as the first case of an existing material culture in a marine mammal...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2005-06, Vol.102 (25), p.8939-8943
Hauptverfasser:	Krützen, Michael, Mann, Janet, Heithaus, Michael R., Connor, Richard C., Bejder, Lars, Sherwin, William B., Marler, Peter
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Behavioral genetics Biological Sciences Cooperative Behavior Datasets Dolphins Dolphins & porpoises Dolphins - genetics Dolphins - psychology Ecological genetics Feeding Behavior - physiology Female Genetic inheritance Haplotypes Learning Male Marine Mating behavior Mitochondrial DNA Models, Genetic Observational learning Population genetics Sponges Tursiops
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