Social learning is widespread across species; however, we still know little about the impact of individual differences in behaviour on social transmission. We aimed to investigate factors influencing social learning in free-living Rhabdomys pumilio, a group-living, arid-adapted mouse. We studied 52 mice in a lid opening task in a field laboratory. We created observer-demonstrator dyads with demonstrators either opening lids or not. We measured success of observers to open lids, their attention and latency to open and time spent interacting with the device. We also considered influences of observer age, sex, group size and personality traits. Demonstrator success did not influence observer success, although attention towards the demonstrator did impact the observers’ time spent with the device. Males were more successful than females and more active/explorative observers interacted with the device faster and for a longer time compared to less active/explorative counterparts. We found no influence of age and group size on mouse success. Striped mice appeared to use cues from other individuals to learn how to solve the task and it was influenced by sex and personality. Striped mice in this studied population may use local enhancement to acquire information socially.

社会学习在物种间广泛存在；然而，对于个体行为差异对社会传播的影响，我们仍然知之甚少。我们旨在调查影响自由生活的Rhabdomys pumilio社会学习的因素，一种群居、适应干旱的老鼠。我们在现场实验室中研究了 52 只小鼠的开盖任务。我们创建了观察者-示威者二元组，示威者打开或不打开盖子。我们测量了观察者打开盖子的成功率、他们的注意力和打开的延迟以及与设备交互所花费的时间。我们还考虑了观察者年龄、性别、群体规模和人格特征的影响。演示者的成功不会影响观察者的成功，尽管对演示者的关注确实会影响观察者在设备上花费的时间。男性比女性更成功，与不太活跃/探索性的同行相比，更活跃/探索性更强的观察者与设备交互的速度更快、时间更长。我们发现年龄和组大小对小鼠成功没有影响。条纹老鼠似乎使用来自其他人的线索来学习如何解决任务，并且它受到性别和个性的影响。该研究人群中的条纹小鼠可能会​​使用局部增强来获取社交信息。