What are you looking at, cockatoo? Does social learning depend on social relationships?

Just like us, non-human animals are good at learning from each other and are able to gather different sorts of information. This ability can be very sophisticated, such as learning about complex motor patterns, or it can be something simpler, such as when the presence of another animal interacting with an object makes you more attracted to that object later. Recent research examines whether the social hierarchy among cockatoos determines how much social learning takes place.
Source: Psychonomic Society News - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news