Publications by authors named "Luke F Quarles"
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- Natural landscapes in Asia, especially in Thailand, are being transformed for agriculture, posing threats to endangered species like slow lorises.
- A study conducted in Khao Lak involved interviews to gather local knowledge about slow lorises, revealing that they are frequently seen in locations like forests, electric wires, and plantations.
- The findings suggest that the local community generally coexists peacefully with slow lorises, but there are ongoing threats from the illegal pet trade, emphasizing the need for conservation efforts that address both wildlife and human needs amid urbanization.
Despite many observations of cooperation in nature, laboratory studies often fail to find careful coordination between individuals who are solving a cooperative task. Further, individuals tested are often naïve to cooperative tasks and there has been little exploration of partnerships with mixed expertise. In the current study, we examined acquisition of a cooperative pulling task in a group with both expert (N = 4) and novice (N = 11) chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur species is routinely depicted as unique in its ability to achieve cooperation, whereas our closest relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), is often characterized as overly competitive. Human cooperation is assisted by the cost attached to competitive tendencies through enforcement mechanisms, such as punishment and partner choice. To examine if chimpanzees possess the same ability to mitigate competition, we set up a cooperative task in the presence of the entire group of 11 adults, which required two or three individuals to pull jointly to receive rewards.
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