{"title":"Bonobos know when you don't: Ape ignorance attribution.","authors":"Natalie Schwob","doi":"10.3758/s13420-025-00680-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner. In an elegantly simple design, the authors found bonobos to communicate more often, and more quickly, when a social partner is ignorant, rather than knowledgeable, of the location of a hidden food item.</p>","PeriodicalId":49914,"journal":{"name":"Learning & Behavior","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learning & Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-025-00680-5","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner. In an elegantly simple design, the authors found bonobos to communicate more often, and more quickly, when a social partner is ignorant, rather than knowledgeable, of the location of a hidden food item.
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Learning & Behavior publishes experimental and theoretical contributions and critical reviews concerning fundamental processes of learning and behavior in nonhuman and human animals. Topics covered include sensation, perception, conditioning, learning, attention, memory, motivation, emotion, development, social behavior, and comparative investigations.