Llamas can study by watching others
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Llamas are higher at performing duties after watching a human or llama do it first. This capacity to study from others, known as social studying, is frequent amongst very smart animals like primates however had by no means earlier than been documented in llamas.
To research if llamas (Lama glama) may study 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 …