Matriarchs as Repositories of Social Knowledge in African Elephants

Despite widespread interest in the evolution of social intelligence, little is known about how wild animals acquire and store information about social companions or whether individuals possessing enhanced social knowledge derive biological fitness benefits. Using playback experiments on African elep...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 292; no. 5516; pp. 491 - 494
Main Authors:	McComb, Karen, Moss, Cynthia, Durant, Sarah M., Baker, Lucy, Sayialel, Soila
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC American Society for the Advancement of Science 20.04.2001 American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subjects:	African elephant Age Aging Animal behavior Animal ethology Animal kin recognition Animal memory Animal social behavior Animals Behavior, Animal Biological and medical sciences Biological Evolution Calves Conservation of Natural Resources Discrimination (Psychology) Elephants Elephants - physiology Exploratory Behavior Female Females Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Impact craters Kenya Kin recognition in animals Logistics Loxodonta africana Mammalia Matrilineal kinship Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Reproduction Reproductive success Social Behavior Social knowledge Statistical variance Success Vertebrata Vocalization, Animal Wildlife studies Kenya United States Africa Proboscidea Vertebrata Mammalia Social behavior Endangered species Aged animal Loxodonta africana Breeding success Female Animal conservation Information transmission Ungulata
ISSN:	0036-8075, 1095-9203
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