ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the important facets of social learning, as well as the ways in which colony managers, trainers, and caregivers can implement primate social learning into daily practice. It describes social learning and explains how to test it. Social learning incorporates learning that arises from direct observation of another's actions and learning from the environmental changes caused by another's actions. The chapter discusses how primates' abilities to socially learn from one another might aid their captive management. It focuses on how social learning by primates can be applied to training and to cultivate positive cultures. The chapter highlights that there appears to be some variance in different individual's and species' ability to learn socially, and that this might be further impacted by the social dynamics of the group in which the primates are housed, all of which should be considered by managers hoping to promote social learning in the daily lives of their animals.
