Llamas solve problems faster after watching people do it

Llamas are higher at performing duties after watching a human or llama do it first. This capacity to be taught from others, known as social studying, is widespread amongst very smart animals like primates however had by no means earlier than been documented in llamas.

To examine if llamas (Lama glama) may be taught from others, researchers challenged 30 llamas on three farms in Germany to discover a meals reward behind a fence. On one facet of an oblong enclosure, behind a V-shaped metallic fence, researchers positioned a bowl of …