Cooperation-based concept formation in male bottlenose dolphins
Social animals have sophisticated ways of classifying relationships with conspecifics. Data from 30 years of observations and playback experiments on dolphins with a multi-level alliance system show that individuals form social concepts that categorize conspecifics according to their shared cooperat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-04-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22668-1 |