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Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male Chimpanzee

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, May 2012
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3 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
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1 policy source
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152 X users
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1 Facebook page
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4 Wikipedia pages
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Title
Spontaneous Innovation for Future Deception in a Male Chimpanzee
Published in
PLOS ONE, May 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0036782
Pubmed ID
Authors

Mathias Osvath, Elin Karvonen

Abstract

The ability to invent means to deceive others, where the deception lies in the perceptually or contextually detached future, appears to require the coordination of sophisticated cognitive skills toward a single goal. Meanwhile innovation for a current situation has been observed in a wide range of species. Planning, on the one hand, and the social cognition required for deception on the other, have been linked to one another, both from a co-evolutionary and a neuroanatomical perspective. Innovation and deception have also been suggested to be connected in their nature of relying on novelty.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 129 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 22%
Researcher 20 15%
Student > Master 20 15%
Professor 16 12%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 16 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 43 32%
Psychology 37 28%
Arts and Humanities 10 7%
Philosophy 5 4%
Physics and Astronomy 3 2%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 18 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 183. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2023.
All research outputs
#225,110
of 25,905,864 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,290
of 225,916 outputs
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#933
of 177,063 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#42
of 3,808 outputs
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