Animal culture
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| - | '''Animal communication''' is any [[behavior]] on the part of one [[animal]] that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. The study of animal communication, sometimes called '''Zoosemiotics''' (distinguishable from [[Human communication|anthroposemiotics]], the study of human communication) has played an important part in the methodology of [[ethology]], [[sociobiology]], and the study of [[animal cognition]]. | + | '''Animal culture''' describes the current [[theory]] of [[cultural learning]] in [[non-human animals]] through socially transmitted behaviors. The question as to the existence of [[culture]] in non-human societies has been a contentious subject for decades, much due to the inexistence of a concise definition for culture. However, many leading scientists agree on culture being defined as a process, rather than an end product. This process, most agree, involves the social transmittance of a novel behavior, both among peers and between generations. This behavior is shared by a group of animals, but not necessarily between separate groups of the same species. |
| - | Animal communication, and indeed the understanding of the [[animal world]] in general, is a rapidly growing field, and even in the 21st century so far, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as personal symbolic [[name]] use, [[emotion in animals|animal emotions]], [[animal culture]] and [[Ethology|learning]], and even [[Animal sexual behaviour|sexual conduct]], long thought to be well understood, have been revolutionized. | + | The notion of culture in animals dates back to [[Aristotle]] and [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]], but the association of animals' actions with the actual word "culture" first was brought forward with Japanese [[primatology|primatologist]]s' discoveries of socially transmitted food behaviors in the 1940s. |
| - | + | ==Examples== | |
| - | + | *[[Bower]]s of [[bower bird]]s | |
| - | + | ==Researchers== | |
| - | == See also == | + | *[[Frans de Waal]] |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| *[[Animal behavior]] | *[[Animal behavior]] | ||
| - | *[[Biocommunication (science)|Biocommunication]] | + | *[[Culture]] |
| - | *[[Biosemiotics]] | + | *[[Culture theory]] |
| - | *[[Emotion in animals]] | + | *[[Cultural transmission]] |
| - | *[[Forms of activity and interpersonal relations]] | + | *[[Cultural transmission in animals]] |
| - | *[[International Society for Biosemiotic Studies]] | + | *[[Ethology]] |
| - | *[[Sir Philip Sidney game]] | + | *[[Social animal]] |
| - | *[[Zoomusicology]] | + | *[[Animal communication]] |
| + | *[[Outline of culture]] | ||
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Animal culture describes the current theory of cultural learning in non-human animals through socially transmitted behaviors. The question as to the existence of culture in non-human societies has been a contentious subject for decades, much due to the inexistence of a concise definition for culture. However, many leading scientists agree on culture being defined as a process, rather than an end product. This process, most agree, involves the social transmittance of a novel behavior, both among peers and between generations. This behavior is shared by a group of animals, but not necessarily between separate groups of the same species.
The notion of culture in animals dates back to Aristotle and Darwin, but the association of animals' actions with the actual word "culture" first was brought forward with Japanese primatologists' discoveries of socially transmitted food behaviors in the 1940s.
Examples
Researchers
See also
- Animal behavior
- Culture
- Culture theory
- Cultural transmission
- Cultural transmission in animals
- Ethology
- Social animal
- Animal communication
- Outline of culture
