Break not the ungulate culture of migration
Posted 27 Sep 2018 / 0Science “Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals”
Wow, this is super cool. We often think of humans as exclusively cultural, but it is only the extent to which we rely on culture that makes us unique. That doesn’t mean that culture’s not crucial to the learning of other animals, whose survival can depend on both learning and social transmission of what is learned. Interruptions to these cultural exchanges have profound conservation implications.
A Minor Post, Conservation Biology, Cultural Evolution, Mammals