animal culture
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The process is similar to the spread and evolution of human cultural innovations like language, or a classic example of animal culture, bird song, which can vary from region to region in the same species.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
But the details of technique evolve to differ in different groups as the innovation spreads, a mark of animal culture.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
“It was quite funny to see,” said Edwin van Leeuwen of the University of Antwerp, who studies animal culture.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
I asked Rendell about how comparable non-human animal culture was to our own, and what studies like his might be able to tell us about our own culture.
From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2013
Breeding Foxhounds is one of the most fascinating of all the pleasures of animal culture, as the above list, so full of extreme merit, can be traced for nearly a hundred and thirty years.
From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert
