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List of works by Claudio Tennie

A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas

scientific article published in June 2008

Animal culture: chimpanzee table manners?

scientific article published in November 2009

Comparing the performances of apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens) in the floating peanut task

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Contagious yawning: a reflection of empathy, mimicry, or contagion?

scientific article

Correspondence: Reply to 'Chimpanzee helping is real, not a byproduct'.

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Could nonhuman great apes also have cultural evolutionary psychology?

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts?

Dogs, Canis familiaris, fail to copy intransitive actions in third-party contextual imitation tasks

article by Claudio Tennie et al published June 2009 in Animal Behaviour

Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task

scientific article

Exploring the role of individual learning in animal tool-use

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Food washing and placer mining in captive great apes

scientific article published on 11 May 2013

Leaf Surface Roughness Elicits Leaf Swallowing Behavior in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (P. paniscus), but not in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) or Orangutans (Pongo abelii)

Modeling imitation and emulation in constrained search spaces.

scientific article published in May 2011

Punishing for your own good: the case of reputation-based cooperation

scientific article published in February 2012

Push or Pull: Imitation vs. Emulation in Great Apes and Human Children

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

scientific article

Reputation management in the age of the world-wide web

scientific article (publication date: November 2010)

Social organization and the evolution of cumulative technology in apes and hominins

scientific article

The meat-scrap hypothesis: small quantities of meat may promote cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

article

The nature of prosociality in chimpanzees

scientific article

The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures

scientific article published on 11 October 2020

Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

Two-year-old children copy more reliably and more often than nonhuman great apes in multiple observational learning tasks

scientific article

Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions

scientific article

Young children spontaneously invent wild great apes' tool-use behaviours

scientific article