Chapter 5: Social Learning and Cultural Transmission

BBC-LifeOfBirds/1.3_TheInsatiableAppetite/#33:40 Woodpecker finch to 36:05 Crow learning
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  1. Bobo - Pinata
  2. Maladaptive behavior: guppies learn long-path from trained peers.
  3. matrilineal elephants, spotted hyenas (cheetah males live in groups)
  4. neocortex: top layer of cerebral hemispheres, part of cerebral cortex: sensory perception, language.
  5. striatum: part of basal ganglia system on inside: appetitive or aversive stimuli.
  6. brainstem: pons, medulla oblongata, midbrain -> spinal cord
  7. Sperm whale brain 9 kg; human 1.35 kg.