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SUMMARY:Detecting social transmission of behaviour in the wild - Dr Willia
 m Hoppitt\, University of St. Andrews
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CONTACT:Dr. Camilla A. Hinde
DESCRIPTION:In recent years a number of claims have been made for nonhuman
 \nculture\, in species such as chimpanzees\, monkeys and dolphins.\nHoweve
 r\, sceptics have argued that there is not strong evidence that\nsuch trad
 itions are the result of social transmission of behaviour.\nThere is clear
 ly a need for methods that can detect social\ntransmission in freely inter
 acting populations of animals. I will\npresent a number of statistical met
 hods that colleagues and I have\nbeen developing to detect social transmis
 sion\, and determine the\nmechanisms of transmission. I will describe how 
 we have applied such\nmethods to data from monkeys\, chimpanzees\, starlin
 gs\, budgerigars and\nmeerkats.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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