Exploring Social Learning in Chimpanzees Through Puzzle Solving

Today, you’ll learn about how when chimpanzees can’t figure out how to do something they get their friends to teach them, a potential breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, and how singing repairs the brain after a stroke. 

Chimpanzee Learning 

• “Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate.” by Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, et al. 2024.  
• “Like Humans, Bumblebees and Chimpanzees Can Pass on Their Skills to Form ‘Cumulative Culture’.” by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes. 2024.  

Breast Cancer Gel  

• “Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel.” by Matthew Weaver. 2024.  
• “Breast cancer statistics.” Cancer Research UK. n.d.  

Singing Brain Repair 

• “Singing repairs the language network of the brain after a cerebrovascular accident.” University of Helsinki. 2024.  
• “Vocal music boosts the recovery of language functions after stroke.” University of Helsinki. 2021.  

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