Dr Amanda Tan's Outputs (9)

Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques (2023)
Journal Article
Reeves, J. S., Tan, A., Malaivijitnond, S., & Luncz, L. V. (2023). Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1995), Article 20222276. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.2276

The pathways through which primates acquire skills are a central focus of cultural evolution studies. The roles of social and genetic inheritance processes in skill acquisition are often confounded by environmental factors. Hybrid macaques from Koram... Read More about Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques.

Long-tailed macaque stone-tool use in intertidal habitats (2019)
Book Chapter
Gumert, M., Tan, A., & Malaivijitnond, S. (2019). Long-tailed macaque stone-tool use in intertidal habitats. In K. Nowak, A. Barnett, & I. Matsuda (Eds.), Primates in Flooded Habitats. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316466780

Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis) (2019)
Journal Article
Gumert, M. D., Tan, A. W. Y., Luncz, L. V., Chua, C. T., Kulik, L., Switzer, A. D., …Malaivijitnond, S. (2019). Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis). Behaviour, 156(11), 1083-1125. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003557

Stone-hammering behaviour customarily occurs in Burmese long-tailed macaques, Macaca fascicularis aurea, and in some Burmese-common longtail hybrids, M. f. aurea × M. f. fascicularis; however, it is not observed in common longtails. Facial pelage dis... Read More about Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea × M. f. fascicularis).

Validation of a Noninvasive Hair Trapping Method for Extractive-Foraging Primates (2018)
Journal Article
Tan, A., & Dominy, N. (2018). Validation of a Noninvasive Hair Trapping Method for Extractive-Foraging Primates. Folia Primatologica, 89(6), https://doi.org/10.1159/000492328

Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users (2018)
Journal Article
Tan, A. W., Hemelrijk, C. K., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2018). Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users. Animal Cognition, 21(4), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1188-9

Examining how animals direct social learning during skill acquisition under natural conditions, generates data for examining hypotheses regarding how transmission biases influence cultural change in animal populations. We studied a population of maca... Read More about Young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) preferentially bias attention towards closer, older, and better tool users.

Resource depletion through primate stone technology (2017)
Journal Article
Luncz, L. V., Tan, A., Haslam, M., Kulik, L., Proffitt, T., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. (2017). Resource depletion through primate stone technology. eLife, 6, Article e23647. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.23647

Tool use has allowed humans to become one of the most successful species. However, tool-assisted foraging has also pushed many of our prey species to extinction or endangerment, a technology-driven process thought to be uniquely human. Here, we demon... Read More about Resource depletion through primate stone technology.

From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative perception-action perspective. (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, A. W. (2017). From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative perception-action perspective. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 131(2), 89-114. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000068

acaques crack shellfish in coastal environments with specialized stone-hammering techniques. I provide the first examination of skill development from 866 object-manipulation and 7,400 tool-use bouts, collected over 15 months, using longitudinal anal... Read More about From play to proficiency: The ontogeny of stone-tool use in coastal-foraging long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from a comparative perception-action perspective..

Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation (2016)
Journal Article
Tan, A. W., Luncz, L., Haslam, M., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2016). Complex processing of prickly pear cactus (Opuntia sp.) by free-ranging long-tailed macaques: preliminary analysis for hierarchical organisation. Primates, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-016-0525-3

There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use (2015)
Journal Article
Tan, A., Tan, S. H., Vyas, D., Malaivijitnond, S., & Gumert, M. D. (2015). There Is More than One Way to Crack an Oyster: Identifying Variation in Burmese Long-Tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis aurea) Stone-Tool Use. PLoS ONE, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124733