Orangutans can't master their complex diets without cultural knowledge 🦧🌿, research reveals. When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants 🌱 and animals 🐾, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them.
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Nature
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials
Nature Human Behaviour - Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
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