Associative Mechanisms Allow for Social Learning and Cultural Transmission of String Pulling in an Insect

• Sylvain Alem ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvain Alem, Clint J. Perry

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Clint J. Perry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvain Alem, Clint J. Perry

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Xingfu Zhu,

  Affiliations Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun Town, Yunnan, P. R. China

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• Olli J. Loukola,

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Thomas Ingraham,

  Affiliation F1000Research, London, United Kingdom

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• Eirik Søvik,

  Affiliation Department of Science and Mathematics, Volda University College, Volda, Norway

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• Lars Chittka

  * E-mail: l.chittka@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8153-1732

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