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 skill to be taught from others, referred to as social studying, is frequent amongst highly intelligent animals like primates however had by no means earlier than been documented in llamas.

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