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Environmental fluctuations alter the competitive trade-offs of group size in a social primate

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By Odd T. Jacobson, Margaret C. Crofoot, Genevieve E. Finerty, Brendan Barrett
| Nature Verified
Abstract Larger animal groups are widely understood to require more space and expend more energy to mitigate the foraging costs of within-group competition. Yet between-group interactions and shifting resource distributions can obscure links between group size and behaviour, making responses to demographic change difficult to predict.
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Wild parrots exhibit age-dependent conformity when learning about novel food

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By Julia Penndorf, Brendan Barrett, Sonja Wild
| PLOS Biology Verified
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Penndorf J, Barrett BJ, Wild S, Martin JM, Aplin LM (2026) Wild parrots exhibit age-dependent conformity when learning about novel food. PLoS Biol 24(4): e3003741.
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Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials

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By Elliot Howard-Spink, Claudio Tennie, Tatang Mitra Setia, Carel van Schaik, Brendan Barrett, Andrew Whiten, Caroline Schuppli, Deana Perawati
| Nature Verified
Abstract Humans accumulate extensive repertoires of culturally transmitted information, reaching breadths exceeding any individual’s innovation capacity (culturally dependent repertoires). It is unclear whether other animals require social learning to acquire adult-like breadths of information in the wild, including by key developmental milestones, or whether animals are capable of constructing their knowledge repertoires primarily through independent exploration.
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