Cultural transmission of animal tool use driven by trade-offs: insights from sponge-using dolphins
Although tool use offers obvious benefits to the user, the role of costs in the spread of tool use has received scant attention. Sponge tool use is a foraging technique restricted to a small subpopulation of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Shark Bay, Australia, that carry basket sponges on...
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| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241900 |
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