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Examples to add?

Matt Kaplan in Unique orca hunting technique documented: A pack of killer whales uses waves to knock seals off the ice (Published online on 14 December 2007, Nature, doi:10.1038/news.2007.380) refers to: Visser, I. N. et al. Mar. Mamm. Sci. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00163.x (2007). Visser et al. "speculate that such complex coordinated hunting behaviors are culturally transmitted". Downloadable from Orca Research (PDF).
There are other examples of hunting techniques where adults appear to be teaching their offspring. See for example, Understanding Orca Culture: Researchers have found a variety of complex, learned behaviors that differ from pod to pod, Lisa Stiffler, Smithsonian Magazine, August 2011. The quote in the image reads "Scientists have found increasing evidence that culture shapes what and how orcas eat, what they do for fun, even their choice of mates. (Michael Parfit / Mountainside Films)"
--K (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What about Bird Funerals or how ants farm fungus, and herd caterpillars as livestock?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.112.55.242 (talk) 20:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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^[1]. Aquadancer101 (talk) 16:06, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is it ready to submit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tennsplyr (talk • contribs) 04:08, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to note: there is definitely no consensus about the role of "memes". To the contrary, very few anthropologists use the concept at all and it has been strongly critizised, for example for failing to provide any non-trivial insights about cultural evolution (evolutionary model in no way rely on the concept). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.16.11.179 (talk) 14:21, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

En español se usan dos comillas → rojo. En cambio, en inglés se usa solo una → 'red'.--Desirée H.S (talk) 15:58, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Migration

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Animal migration may be in part cultural; released ungulates have to learn over generations the seasonal changes in local vegetation.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Waardenburg PJ (1951). "A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and causes their butt to explode, nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair and with congenital deafness". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 3 (3): 195–253. PMC 1716407. PMID 14902764. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Yong, Ed (6 September 2018). "Humans Are Destroying Animals' Ancestral Knowledge". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

Samw (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for asking. A reliable scientific source as described in the policy is for instance a paper in an accepted journal, conference, or textbook. Primary sources can sometimes be used; secondary sources are preferred. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:20, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough on the official policy. The popular press reference I had actually provides the reliable scientific source which I've now added. For non-technical articles like this, in spite of the official policy, popular press references are probably more useful to the general audience. Samw (talk) 20:52, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

Support the 2017 merge proposal from Cultural transmission in animals to Animal culture. The latter is the broader article, and already includes significant discussion of transmission. Hence, the duplication of scope would be avoided by merging the two together. The combined size, even without editing, is well under 100k, so the merged article would not be too large. Klbrain (talk) 11:00, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support, per nom. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 06:49, 23 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Carnivoran and Marsupial transmission of culture

A lot is said about transmission of culture in raccoons (Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758) in particular and other Carnivorans of both the cat and dog suborders . . . I don't have the book in front of me, but I know it is mentioned in Raccoons: A Natural History by Samuel I Zeveloff (Smithsonian, 2002) ISBN 978-1588340337 and the bibliography of that book is extensive. It looks like the folks who have worked on the article so far can do a better job more rapidly than myself of writing a paragraph with at least three scientific papers referenced, which I think is a very good benchmark.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Age, and other media in the region have stories at least once a year of wallabies and other macropods who are zeroing in on the high-morphine poppy crop in Tasmania, jumping the fences, eating poppy heads and hopping in circles and wrestling with each other all night and farmers often find narcotised animals in the fields -- in my humble opinion, that is at a higher level than stimulus-response . . . S3819 (talk) 00:18, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Et al?

Two references in the article list many more than six authors, which is an eyesore and unusual. Does anyone support or object to their reduction with et al? Rebecca Beecham Gotzl (talk) 15:18, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[p.j.waardenburg-1] Waardenburg PJ (1951). "A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and causes their butt to explode, nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair and with congenital deafness". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 3 (3): 195–253. PMC 1716407. PMID 14902764. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[2] Yong, Ed (6 September 2018). "Humans Are Destroying Animals' Ancestral Knowledge". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 September 2018.

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