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This Chapter Reviews The Primate Research Literature On Primate Culture, Social Learning Mechanisms And Strategies. The Chapter Begins With An Historical Account Of Primate Cultures, Most Notably Those Of Chimpanzees But Also Orangutans, Capuchins And Japanese Macaques. It Describes The Cultural Repertoires And The Social Learning Mechanisms That May Support Them. The Next Section Focuses On The Social Learning Mechanisms Involving In Foraging Including Food Choice, Tool-use, And Food Extraction. Special Attention Is Devoted To The Phenomena Of Conformity And Conservatism. It Also Includes Studies On Social Transmission Chains And The Question Of Cumulative Culture. Next, The Chapter Focuses On The Social Learning Of Actions (outside Foraging) Including Vocalizations, Gestures And Non-instrumental Actions. It Also Presents The Data On Imitation Recognition. The Last Section Of This Chapter Is Devoted To Social Learning Strategies Including Model-based Learning, Frequency-based Learning And Teaching-- Provided By Publisher.