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Some Weather

An orangutan takes shelter beneath an umbrella made from branches. That animals can use tools in such sophisticated ways can be explained with the help of a new learning model for animal behavior.

By The Scientist Staff | December 5, 2016

EUREKALERT, JOHAN LIND

(See M. Enquist, J. Lind, and S. Ghirlanda, “The power of associative learning and the ontogeny of optimal behaviour,” Royal Society Open Science, doi:10.1098/rsos.160734, 2016.)