Culture: In the beak of the beholder?

Authors
Lynn, SK Pepperberg, IM
Citation
Sk. Lynn et Im. Pepperberg, Culture: In the beak of the beholder?, BEHAV BRAIN, 24(2), 2001, pp. 341
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
ISSN journal
0140525X → ACNP
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(200104)24:2<341:CITBOT>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
We disagree with two of Rendell and Whitehead's assertions. Culture may be an ancestral characteristic of terrestrial cetacean ancestors; not derived via marine variability, modem cetacean mobility, or any living cetacean soc ial structure. Furthermore, evidence for vocal behavior as culture, social stability, and cognitive ability, is richer in birds than Rendell and White head portray and comparable to that of cetaceans and primates.