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ManyBirds: A multi-site collaborative Open Science approach to avian cognition and behaviour research 多鸟:鸟类认知和行为研究的多站点协作开放科学方法

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-06-21 DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/83xkt

M. Lambert, B. Farrar, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin, S. Reber, Rachael Miller

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引用次数: 16

Humans' Ability to Assess Emotion in Dog Barks Only Slightly Affected by their Country of Residence, a Replication of Pongracz et al. (2005) in a Portuguese Sample 人类在狗叫声中评估情绪的能力仅受其居住国的轻微影响，Pongracz等人(2005)在葡萄牙样本中的复制

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.02.2021

Karine Silva, T. Faragó, P. Pongrácz, Patrícia Romeiro, Mariely Lima, L. Sousa

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引用次数: 3

The legislative, ethical, and conceptual importance of replicability in farm animal welfare science 农场动物福利科学中可复制性的立法、伦理和概念重要性

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.11.2021

C. Nawroth, L. Gygax

引用次数: 1

Exploring the Relationship Between Boldness, Activity, Exploration and Monoaminergic Gene Expression in Red Junglefowl Chicks 探讨红原秃鹫雏鸡的胆度、活性、探索性与单胺能基因表达的关系

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.03.2021

Kristoffer A. Lundgren, Clara A. Gómez Dunlop, L. Garnham, Sara Ryding, R. Abbey-Lee, Anastasia Kreshchenko, H. Løvlie

{"title":"Exploring the Relationship Between Boldness, Activity, Exploration and Monoaminergic Gene Expression in Red Junglefowl Chicks","authors":"Kristoffer A. Lundgren, Clara A. Gómez Dunlop, L. Garnham, Sara Ryding, R. Abbey-Lee, Anastasia Kreshchenko, H. Løvlie","doi":"10.26451/ABC.08.02.03.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26451/ABC.08.02.03.2021","url":null,"abstract":"Why individuals differ in behavioral responses has received intense research attention (particularly in the context of animal personality), and has typically focused on describing variation in boldness, activity, and exploration. Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying this behavioral variation remain largely unknown. Variation in these behaviors is likely influenced by genetic differences between individuals, with genes in the monoaminergic systems commonly implicated. When examining the link between variation in boldness, activity and exploration and genes, studies have focused on different monoaminergic systems (mainly serotonergic and dopaminergic), and predominantly on mammals and passerine birds. Therefore, to replicate this general approach and examine if genes from these systems are linked to boldness, activity, and exploration, we exposed red junglefowl chicks (Gallus gallus) to behavioral assays (measuring boldness, activity, exploration) before analyzing prefrontal cortex gene expression of several dopaminergic (DRD1, DRD2) and serotonergic genes (TPH, 5HT2A, 5HT2B, 5HT2C, 5HT1B). We observed no relationships between our measured behaviors and gene expression. Together with previous studies, our results suggest that a clear link between boldness, activity and exploration and monoaminergic gene variation is lacking. We, therefore, suggest that this is due to differences among studies (e.g., methodological differences), or that the nature of the relationship between these behaviors and monoaminergic systems is more species-specific, and/or more complex than so far assumed.","PeriodicalId":31700,"journal":{"name":"Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"51 1","pages":"124-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90236763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Methodological Challenges in the Assessment of Dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) Susceptibility of the Ebbinghaus-Titchener Illusion Using the Spontaneous Choice Task 利用自发选择任务评估犬对艾宾浩斯-提钦纳错觉易感性的方法挑战

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.04.2021

Nicole Becker, Sasha Prasad-Shreckengast, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere

{"title":"Methodological Challenges in the Assessment of Dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) Susceptibility of the Ebbinghaus-Titchener Illusion Using the Spontaneous Choice Task","authors":"Nicole Becker, Sasha Prasad-Shreckengast, Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere","doi":"10.26451/ABC.08.02.04.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26451/ABC.08.02.04.2021","url":null,"abstract":"Visual illusions represent an innovative method to investigate animal visual perception. One well known geometric illusion is the Ebbinghaus-Titchener illusion, which consists of two identically sized target circles with one surrounded by large inducer circles and the other surrounded by small inducer circles. Humans are susceptible to this illusion, underestimating the size of the target circle surrounded by larger inducers and overestimating the size of the target circle surrounded by smaller inducers. In the present study, we investigated whether pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) perceive the Ebbinghaus-Titchener illusion in a spontaneous choice task by adapting and replicating the methodology of Miletto Petrazzini et al. (2017). Twenty-five pet dogs were presented with two stimuli in which a food reward was embedded. Each subject participated in 18 total trials, 12 size discrimination control trials (where one food reward was larger than the other) and six illusion trials (where identically sized food rewards were presented). Dogs, as a group, failed to demonstrate a significant preference for the larger food reward in control trials, and demonstrated null susceptibility, performing at chance, in the illusion trials. The chance performance on controls prevents further interpretation regarding canine illusion susceptibility; however, it invokes a discussion regarding the methodological challenges associated with conducting spontaneous-choice tasks. In an attempt to provide guidance for future research, we provide a review of canine illusion susceptibility to the Ebbinghaus-Titchener illusion and detailed recommendations to help mitigate extraneous factors to help further research of animal illusion susceptibility.","PeriodicalId":31700,"journal":{"name":"Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"3 1","pages":"138-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90363839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The Challenges of Replicating Research on Endangered Species 濒危物种复制研究的挑战

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.10.2021

R. C. Shaw, Alison L. Greggor, Joshua M. Plotnik

引用次数: 10

Replications, Comparisons, Sampling and the Problem of Representativeness in Animal Cognition Research. 动物认知研究中的复制、比较、取样和代表性问题。

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/abc.08.02.14.2021

Benjamin G Farrar, Konstantinos Voudouris, Nicola S Clayton

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引用次数: 0

Updating a Textbook Model of Collective Behavior: Nest Wall Building in Temnothorax albipennis 集体行为教科书模型的更新:白翅天牛的巢墙建设

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.09.2021

Edith Invernizzi, G. Ruxton

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引用次数: 2

How Subtle Protocol Choices Can Affect Biological Conclusions: Great Tits' Response to Allopatric Mobbing Calls 微妙的协议选择如何影响生物学结论:大山雀对异域骚扰呼叫的反应

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.05.2021

A. Salis, J. Léna, T. Lengagne

{"title":"How Subtle Protocol Choices Can Affect Biological Conclusions: Great Tits' Response to Allopatric Mobbing Calls","authors":"A. Salis, J. Léna, T. Lengagne","doi":"10.26451/ABC.08.02.05.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26451/ABC.08.02.05.2021","url":null,"abstract":"In the last ten years, numerous replicated studies showed divergent results from the original papers, leading to the recognition that science may be facing a replication crisis. Apart from fraud or natural population variability, different results may emerge from flexibility in the protocol and/or restricted sample sizes. Replication studies are therefore fundamental to assess how robust a finding can be. However, while the original authors may be prone to p-hacking (to collect data, select data or use statistical analyses until nonsignificant results become significant), the replication-authors are, on the contrary, probably unwittingly prone to show opposite results (i.e., null-hacking). In this study, we face the unique opportunity to compare replicated studies with no null-hacking bias. Two teams independently investigated the response of great tits (Parus major) to mobbing calls of an allopatric species, in their natural and reversed order, on the same population. We first discuss how subtle protocol choices, especially regarding the soundtrack preparation and playback methodology, can explain variation in the results. In addition, we show that, although the effect sizes of the differences of interest are similar, biological conclusions solely based on the p-value would be different. Thus, we note the pitfall of reliance on p values, especially with small samples.","PeriodicalId":31700,"journal":{"name":"Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77507027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

New Caledonian Crows and Hidden Causal Agents Revisited 新喀里多尼亚乌鸦和隐藏的因果因素重新审视

Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.26451/ABC.08.02.06.2021

Laurie O'Neill, Garp Linder, M. Buuren, A. Bayern

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