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Author Cantlon, J.F.; Brannon, E.M.
Title How Much Does Number Matter to a Monkey (Macaca mulatta)? Type Journal Article
Year 2007 Publication Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Abbreviated Journal
Volume 33 Issue 1 Pages 32-41
Keywords numerical cognition; Weber's law; nonhuman primates; numerosity
Abstract Although many animal species can represent numerical values, little is known about how salient number is relative to other object properties for nonhuman animals. In one hypothesis, researchers propose that animals represent number only as a last resort, when no other properties differentiate stimuli. An alternative hypothesis is that animals automatically, spontaneously, and routinely represent the numerical attributes of their environments. The authors compared the influence of number versus that of shape, color, and surface area on rhesus monkeys' (Macaca mulatta) decisions by testing them on a matching task with more than one correct answer: a numerical match and a nonnumerical (color, surface area, or shape) match. The authors also tested whether previous laboratory experience with numerical discrimination influenced a monkey's propensity to represent number. Contrary to the last-resort hypothesis, all monkeys based their decisions on numerical value when the numerical ratio was favorable.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2891
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Author Gray, E.R.; Spetch, M.L.
Title Pigeons Encode Absolute Distance but Relational Direction From Landmarks and Walls Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes Abbreviated Journal
Volume 32 Issue 4 Pages 474-480
Keywords spatial cognition; absolute distance; relational direction; landmark configurations
Abstract In recent studies, researchers have examined animals' use of absolute or relational distances in finding a hidden goal. When trained with an array of landmarks, most animals use the default strategy of searching at an absolute distance from 1 or more landmarks. In contrast, when trained in enclosures, animals often use the relationship among walls. In the present study, pigeons were trained to find the center of an array of landmarks or a set of short walls that did not block external cues. Expansion tests showed that both groups of pigeons primarily used an absolute distance strategy. However, on rotational tests, pigeons continued to search in the center of the array, suggesting that direction was learned in relation to array.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2894
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Author Custance DM; Whiten A; Bard KA
Title Can young chimpanzees imitate arbitrary actions? Hayes and Hayes (1952) revisited Type Journal Article
Year 1995 Publication Behavior Abbreviated Journal
Volume 132 Issue Pages 839
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2990
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Author Saleh, N.; Chittka, L.
Title The importance of experience in the interpretation of conspecific chemical signals Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Abbreviated Journal Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
Volume 61 Issue 2 Pages 215-220
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Abstract Abstract  Foraging bumblebees scent mark flowers with hydrocarbon secretions. Several studies have found these scent marks act as a repellent to bee foragers. This was thought to minimize the risk of visiting recently depleted flowers. Some studies, however, have found a reverse, attractive effect of scent marks left on flowers. Do bees mark flowers with different scents, or could the same scent be interpreted differently depending on the bees? previous experience with reward levels in flowers? We use a simple experimental design to investigate if the scent marks can become attractive when bees forage on artificial flowers that remain rewarding upon the bees? return after having depleted them. We contrast this with bees trained in the more natural scenario where revisits to recently emptied flowers are unrewarding. The bees association between scent mark and reward value was tested with flowers scent marked from the same source. We find that the bees experience with the level of reward determines how the scent mark is interpreted: the same scent can act as both an attractant and a repellent. How experience and learning influence the interpretation of the meaning of chemical signals deposited by animals for communication has rarely been investigated.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 3150
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Author Dugatkin, L.A.; Alfieri, M.
Title Guppies and the TIT FOR TAT strategy: preference based on past interaction Type Journal Article
Year 1991 Publication Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Abbreviated Journal Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
Volume 28 Issue 4 Pages 243-246
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Abstract The evolution of cooperation requires either (a) nonrandom interactions, such that cooperators preferentially interact with other cooperators, or (b) conditional behaviors, such that individuals act cooperatively primarily towards other cooperators. Although these conditions can be met without assuming sophisticated animal cognition, they are more likely to be met if animals can remember individuals with whom they have interacted, associate past interactions with these individuals, and base future behavior on this information. Here we show that guppies (Poecilia reticulata), in the context of predator inspection behavior, can identify and remember (for at least 4 h) the “more cooperative” among two conspecifics and subsequently choose to be near these individuals in future encounters.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 3397
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Author Sluyter F.; Arseneault L.; Moffitt T.E.; Veenema A.H.; de Boer S.; Koolhaas J.M.
Title Toward an Animal Model for Antisocial Behavior: Parallels Between Mice and Humans: Aggression Type Journal Article
Year 2003 Publication Behavior Genetics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 33 Issue Pages 563-574
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Author Kurtzman H.S.; Church R.M.; Crystal J.D.
Title Data archiving for animal cognition research: Report of an NIMH workshop Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Animal Learning & Behavior Abbreviated Journal
Volume 30 Issue Pages 405-412
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Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 3504
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Author McGreevy, P.D.
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Year 2004 Publication Equine Behavior: A Guide for Veterinarians and Equine Scientists Abbreviated Journal
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 25; Export Date: 21 October 2008 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4530
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Author Waring, G.H.
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Year 2003 Publication Horse behavior. 2nd ed Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 442 pp
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 1; Export Date: 21 October 2008 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4548
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Author Grzimek, B.
Title On the Psychology of the Horse Type Journal Article
Year 1968 Publication Man and Animal: Studies in Behavior Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 37-46
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Notes Cited By (since 1996): 4; Export Date: 24 October 2008 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ knut @ Serial 4592
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