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Among most nonhuman primates, juveniles must acquire most of their solid food independently. Information gleaned from adults results from efforts initiated by the juveniles. Donation of food or foraging information by adults to immatures is rare among apes and virtually unknown among monkeys. We report 3 observations in which wild adult golden lion tamarins appear to have directed their immature offspring to a location where a hidden prey item was located. According to the definition of Caro and Hauser (1992), the tamarins were tutoring their young.
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Rapaport, L.G., Ruiz-Miranda, C.R. Tutoring in Wild Golden Lion Tamarins. International Journal of Primatology 23, 1063–1070 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019650032735
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