Chimps show other chimps how to use tools. My roommate showed me some tricks to make better scrambled eggs. Group members teaching each other is called cultural transmission. And a study finds that cultural transmission is behind the spread of a hunting technique among humpback whales off New England. The research is in the journal Science. [Jenny Allen et al, Network-Based Diffusion Analysis Reveals Cultural Transmission of Lobtail Feeding in Humpback Whales ]

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Source: Whales Teach Each Other Hunting Skill


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