A doctoral student in search of an answer
Annaëlle Surreault-Châble's thesis is based on 5 objectives which seek to:
- Understand the nature and functioning of the social links of captive populations housed in zoos.
- To determine whether Asian elephants choose their food and learn their foraging and foraging behavior through social learning.
- Explore to what extent the particular traits (such as familiarity, age, gender, etc.) of the individuals involved in the interaction are prevalent for social learning.
- To assess the mechanisms governing social learning in elephants, among a variety of cognitive processes ranging from local facilitation and / or stimuli to imitation using 3 experiments.
- Investiguer le degré d’influence des soigneurs sur les éléphants pour comprendre la relation entre les humains et les éléphants.
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