Animal Cognition最新文献

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01985-8

Claudia A F Wascher, Mason Youngblood

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Prosociality is centred on intentions, not outcomes. 亲社会的核心是意图，而不是结果。

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01981-y

Leon Li, Tindaya Déniz, Louisa Huff, Solveig Jurkat, Manuela Missana, Laura Tietz, Sebastian Grueneisen

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Further examining how animals weigh conflicting information about reward sources over time. 进一步研究动物如何随着时间的推移权衡奖励来源的相互矛盾的信息。

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01982-x

Jack Van Allsburg, Timothy A Shahan

{"title":"Further examining how animals weigh conflicting information about reward sources over time.","authors":"Jack Van Allsburg, Timothy A Shahan","doi":"10.1007/s10071-025-01982-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-025-01982-x","url":null,"abstract":"Spontaneous recovery of choice is a behavioral phenomenon where a delay period (without new experience) elicits the recovery of a preference consistent with a previous distribution of rewards, rather than the most recently experienced distribution of rewards. On short timescales (< 48 h), the occurrence of spontaneous recovery of choice has been effectively predicted by the Temporal Weighting Rule. However, previous study of this phenomenon over longer timescales (> 48 h) has found results inconsistent with model predictions. The present experiments investigated three potential explanations for these results: (1.) whether time's passage alone causes animals to revert to random exploratory behavior; (2.) whether time's effect on behavior is moderated by experience of volatility in rewards during training; and (3.) whether a drift toward random exploratory behavior produced by time's passage can be distinguished from the effect of spontaneous recovery of choice. Subjects experienced varied reward conditions in a concurrent choice procedure before preference between options was evaluated at various test delays. Obtained results ruled out these first two explanations, but were inconclusive in distinguishing the effects of a drift toward random exploratory behavior from the effect of spontaneous recovery of choice. Limitations and directions for further investigation are discussed.","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"28 1","pages":"74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12310909/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144741006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The gestural repertoire of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): gesture form and frequency of use. Bwindi山地大猩猩（Gorilla beringei beringei）的手势技能：手势形式和使用频率。

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01977-8

Charlotte Grund, Martha M Robbins, Catherine Hobaiter

{"title":"The gestural repertoire of Bwindi mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei): gesture form and frequency of use.","authors":"Charlotte Grund, Martha M Robbins, Catherine Hobaiter","doi":"10.1007/s10071-025-01977-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-025-01977-8","url":null,"abstract":"Over recent decades comprehensive catalogues of vocal, facial, and gestural signals have been established for most great ape species; however, a systematic description of wild gorilla gestural behaviour, particularly of the Eastern gorilla species, remains missing. We address this absence by cataloguing the physical form of gestural units used by 49 habituated wild mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) from four social units in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (n = 157 observation days over 8 months). We obtained a dataset of n = 3220 instances of intentional gesture, coded with a systematic ELAN-based framework (GesturalOrigins). Mountain gorillas employed a repertoire of 63 gesture actions, including potentially species-specific units, across 10 behavioural contexts. A latent class analysis on variants of gesture action expression split units further into 126 finer-grained forms ('morphs'). We observed ~ 6 gestures per hour of observation time and species-level repertoire size was similar to those reported in both Pan species. Our study constitutes the first systematic description of the mountain gorilla gestural repertoire, providing a new understanding of their communication, filling current gaps in great ape gestural phylogeny, and complementing previous studies on their vocal signals. Living in cohesive, small-sized female-male bonded social units, gorillas show striking differences in social organisation as compared to Pan species and provide crucial context for theories on the potential ancestral states of human communicative behaviour.","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"28 1","pages":"73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12307521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144726585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction: Responses of coal tits (Periparus ater) to aversive food: insights into hoarding motivation and memory. 更正：煤山雀（Periparus水）对厌恶食物的反应：对囤积动机和记忆的见解。

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01986-7

D D O'Hagan, D Donley, S W Y Yeung, C D Blasi Foglietti, D Wales, D Wintersgill, T V Smulders

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Correction: Information-seeking in mice (Mus musculus) during visual discrimination: study using a distractor elimination paradigm. 更正：小鼠（小家鼠）在视觉辨别过程中的信息寻找：使用干扰物消除范式的研究。

IF 2.1 2区生物学

Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01990-x

Yuya Hataji, Kazuhiro Goto

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Correction: Replay of incidentally encoded novel odors in the rat. 更正：偶然编码的新气味在老鼠体内的重放。