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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Main Authors: Stephanie L. King, Richard C. Connor, Michael Krützen, Simon J. Allen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22668-1