Social learning

• This information can help animals tackle problems such as where to find food and mates, how to follow migration routes and how to avoid predators.
• This is what I set out to discover in a recent review of the literature on social learning in solitary animals.
• There are dozens of examples of social learning in solitary species of insect, octopus, fish, shark, lizard, snake, turtle and tortoise.

Social lives

• Solitary animals are not necessarily cut off from social contact.
• In fact, many live in rich social worlds awash with calls and scent cues from other animals – they also come into contact (and sometimes clash) with these animals regularly.
• Understanding how social learning arises and develops can thus inform conservation and species management.
• But we still know comparatively little about the role natural selection and the early exposure to social cues play in shaping social learning.

Some animals learn better than others

• Sharing knowledge is an important mechanism across the natural world, and many solitary animals are capable of it.
• But which animals pick up social cues the best?
• Most group-living animals will be exposed to social information more frequently than solitary animals, so may become more attuned to it either through natural selection or through experience.

Early exposure

• The amount of social exposure that an animal receives early on in its life may also affect how well it learns from others later on.
• In experiments that manipulate early exposure to social cues, these solitary species can widen scientific understanding of how animals pick up the associations that lead to social learning.

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