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Enculturated Chimpanzees Imitate Rationally
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Buttelmann, David; Carpenter, Malinda; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2007
Human infants imitate others' actions "rationally": they copy a demonstrator's action when that action is freely chosen, but less when it is forced by some constraint (Gergely, Bekkering & Kiraly, 2002). We investigated whether enculturated chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) also imitate rationally. Using Gergely and colleagues' (2002) basic procedure,…
Descriptors: Infants, Animals, Imitation, Acculturation