Overall, our study highlights that information about the foraging skills of group members can be used flexibly to inform social strategies using simple cognitive processes (7/8)

Interestingly, female behavior returned to baseline after the food box stopped appearing. Indicating their response was not based on a reassessment of the male’s skills or competence, but rather a response to the short term benefits they received from his lever pulling (5/8)

To ask our question we manipulated the foraging skills of one male per group by giving them, and them alone, the ability to create a shareable pile of peanuts by pulling the lever on our food box (2/8)

BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...