Bauer G B, Johnson C M
Division of Social Sciences, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota 34243.
Percept Mot Skills. 1994 Dec;79(3 Pt 1):1307-15. doi: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.3.1307.
Each of two bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, was trained to mimic a set of behaviors on command. They were tested on transfer of the mimic command to a set of familiar behaviors which they had not previously been commended to mimic. They were similarly tested on two novel behaviors. One dolphin demonstrated complete mimicry of 5 of 11 familiar behaviors; the other dolphin mimicked 1 of 9 behaviors. None of the mimicked behaviors was exhibited to an inappropriate model, suggesting that performance was not due to chance. Neither dolphin imitated the novel behaviors.
两头宽吻海豚（Tursiops truncatus）分别接受训练，根据指令模仿一系列行为。它们接受测试，看模仿指令能否迁移到一组它们之前未被要求模仿的熟悉行为上。它们也针对两种新行为进行了类似测试。一只海豚成功完全模仿了11种熟悉行为中的5种；另一只海豚模仿了9种行为中的1种。所有模仿行为均未针对不适当的模型表现出来，这表明其表现并非出于偶然。两只海豚都没有模仿新行为。
