Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task

dc.contributor.authorPahl, Annkatrin
dc.contributor.authorKönig von Borstel, Uta
dc.contributor.authorBrucks, Désirée
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-06T15:09:17Z
dc.date.available2024-02-06T15:09:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractLearning by observing others (i.e. social learning) is an important mechanism to reduce the costs of individual learning. Social learning can occur between conspecifics but also heterospecifics. Domestication processes might have changed the animals’ sensitivity to human social cues and recent research indicates that domesticated species are particularly good in learning socially from humans. Llamas (Lama glama) are an interesting model species for that purpose. Llamas were bred as pack animals, which requires close contact and cooperative behaviour towards humans. We investigated whether llamas learn socially from trained conspecifics and humans in a spatial detour task. Subjects were required to detour metal hurdles arranged in a V-shape to reach a food reward. Llamas were more successful in solving the task after both a human and a conspecific demonstrated the task compared to a control condition with no demonstrator. Individual differences in behaviour (i.e. food motivation and distraction) further affected the success rate. Animals did not necessarily use the same route as the demonstrators, thus, indicating that they adopted a more general detour behaviour. These results suggest that llamas can extract information from conspecific and heterospecific demonstrations; hence, broadening our knowledge of domesticated species that are sensitive to human social behaviour.
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/18962
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-18323
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsNamensnennung 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddcddc:630
dc.titleLlamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task
dc.typearticle
local.affiliationFB 09 - Agrarwissenschaften, Ökotrophologie und Umweltmanagement
local.source.epage1633
local.source.journaltitleAnimal cognition
local.source.spage1623
local.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01808-8
local.source.volume26

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