Scientists have identified dozens of previously overlooked cultural behaviors in wild chimpanzees, suggesting that the great ape's culture extends far beyond complex skills like tool use. In a single ...

Animal conservationists often move elephants between herds to improve biodiversity and group health, but what if the elephants don't speak the same language? Studies suggest that populations, even ...

Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Bordeaux in France report that human cultural know-how grew through a long, measured shift from casual ...

Drastic declines in biodiversity due to human activities present risks to understanding animal behaviors such as tool use, according to new research. Shrinking animal populations make the study of ...

Can artificial intelligence understand culture—or even articulate with a certain native panache? This question feels audacious, yet recent research suggests that large language models (LLMs) like ...

Chimpanzee culture is more similar to human culture than often assumed, new research suggests. Chimpanzees don’t automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers have ...

Cultural behaviour analysis examines patterns of behaviour that emerge within groups as a product of interlocking functional relations and their consequences. In organisational contexts, cultural ...

When managing cross-cultural teams, it’s easy to hone in on the differences among team members, or to jump to conclusions about colleagues’ behavior based on our own cultural references. But a more ...

Chimpanzees don't automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers have now used field experiments to show that chimpanzees thus do not simply invent nut cracking with ...