Crafty little goats –
watching humans solve problems.
See, they learn faster!
Many animals can learn how to solve tasks by watching how members of their own species solve the problem. Learning by observing other species is less common and few species have been shown to learn from watching humans. Goats struggle to learn how to solve a detour task (navigating around a ‘V’ shaped hurdle) by themselves but observing a human solve the task just once enables goats are able to solve the task much faster. Nawroth et al, 2016.