Bees and chimpanzees can learn socially, just like humans. Two experiments show that both insects and apes can acquire behaviors from their conspecifics, which would allow cultural accumulation.

Primates have culture, it has been accepted for years. Chimpanzees are the closest living animals to us and their behaviors can be interpreted as a living fossil with which to reconstruct the history of the human mind, but social learning does not seem to be a fruit of late stages of evolution. In nature, bee behaviors that are considered cultural have not been identified.