AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Animals learn from others. This phenomenon, termed ‘social learning’, is well established across numerous taxa and contexts, from fish learning mating sites by following others, to meerkats ( Suricata suricatta) teaching pups to handle scorpions 1– 5.

Detailed explanation-2: -In monkey populations, indirect forms of social learning may be prevalent, such as stimulus enhancement, where a demonstrator attracts the attention of an observer to a task. Once at proximity to the task, the observer may then acquire the solution to the task through asocial learning.

Detailed explanation-3: -Decisions made by individuals can be influenced by what others think and do. Social learning includes a wide array of behaviors such as imitation, observational learning of novel foraging techniques, peer or parental influences on individual preferences, as well as outright teaching.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social learning refers to learning that is facilitated by observation of, or interaction with, another animal or its products. Social learning has been observed in a variety of animal taxa, such as insects, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals (including primates).