T Revathe

This study investigates peering behavior in wild chimpanzees to assess social learning and cultural transmission of everyday skills, finding that peering is used for targeted information seeking and may function as a signal for social interaction.

The paper examines social relationships between young Asian elephant calves and conspecific females, finding that calves form differentiated relationships with escorts who provide allomaternal care, while other females rarely interact with calves.

The paper analyzes social and individual learning in wild orangutans over eight years, finding that social learning is more frequent and synergistically shapes diet profiles with individual learning.

After controlling for confounders, 15 wild Sumatran orangutan mothers differed consistently in average expression of four of six maternal behaviours and in age-related plasticity for three.

This study examines how socioecological factors and mother-offspring characteristics influence maternal behaviors in wild Sumatran orangutans.