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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Main Authors: Ellen Jacobs, Chong Wei, Christine Erbe, Janet Mann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2025-07-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241900
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