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SUMMARY:“Personality and social learning in wild baboons” - Dr Alecia 
 Carter (Large Animal Research Group\, Department of Zoology
DTSTART:20130130T123000Z
DTEND:20130130T133000Z
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CONTACT:Diane Pearce
DESCRIPTION:Social species can learn about their environment by gathering 
 personal information or by learning from other individuals. While previous
  research into social learning has focused on the mechanisms involved\, re
 cently there has been a call to understand individual differences in socia
 l learning. We investigated whether individual differences in social learn
 ing through stimulus enhancement were related to personality in wild baboo
 ns Papio ursinus. We used two field experiments in which individuals had t
 he opportunity to learn from an experienced demonstrator: exposure to a no
 vel food and a simple hidden-food task. We investigated whether the 1) pro
 pensity to solve the task\, 2) time spent watching a demonstrator and 3) c
 hange in behaviour after watching a demonstrator was related to the baboon
 ’s boldness or anxiety.
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