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Comments on “Comparing the productive vocabularies of Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and young children” 关于 "比较灰鹦鹉（Psittacus erithacus）和幼儿的生产性词汇 "的评论

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01917-y

Irene M. Pepperberg

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Companion dogs flexibly and spontaneously comprehend human gestures in multiple contexts 伴侣犬能在多种情境下灵活自发地理解人类的手势。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01901-6

Hannah Salomons, Jordan Sokoloff, Brian Hare

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Transitive reasoning in the adult domestic hen in a six-term series task 成年家鸡在六学期系列任务中的转折推理。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01914-1

R. Degrande, O. Amichaud, B. Piégu, F. Cornilleau, P. Jardat, V. H.B. Ferreira, V. Colson, L. Lansade, L. Calandreau

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Visuo-spatial compound stimuli discrimination with (Gryllus pennsylvanicus) in two-choices rewarding learning tasks 在二选一的奖励学习任务中使用蝼蛄辨别视觉空间复合刺激物

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01903-4

André Cyr, Isaiah Morrow, Julie Morand-Ferron

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The repeatability of behavioural laterality during nest building in zebra finches 斑马雀筑巢过程中侧向行为的可重复性

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01916-z

Andrés Camacho-Alpízar, Jessica Hewitt, Cailyn Poole, Tristan Eckersley, Benjamin A. Whittaker, Julia L. Self, Lauren M. Guillette

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Evidence for a general cognitive structure in pigeons (Columba livia) 鸽子（Columba livia）一般认知结构的证据。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01912-3

Mary Flaim, Aaron P. Blaisdell

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Rats’ performance in a suboptimal choice procedure implemented in a natural-foraging analogue 大鼠在自然觅食模拟的次优选择程序中的表现。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01913-2

Fernanda González-Barriga, Vladimir Orduña

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Odour generalisation and detection dog training 气味泛化和探测犬训练

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01907-0

Lyn Caldicott, Thomas W. Pike, Helen E. Zulch, Daniel S. Mills, Fiona J. Williams, Kevin R. Elliker, Bethany Hutchings, Anna Wilkinson

{"title":"Odour generalisation and detection dog training","authors":"Lyn Caldicott, Thomas W. Pike, Helen E. Zulch, Daniel S. Mills, Fiona J. Williams, Kevin R. Elliker, Bethany Hutchings, Anna Wilkinson","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01907-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01907-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Detection dogs are required to search for and alert to specific odours of interest, such as drugs, cadavers, disease markers and explosives. However, the odour released from different samples of the same target substance will vary for a number of reasons, including the production method, evaporation, degradation, or by being mixed with extraneous odours. Generalisation, the tendency to respond in the same manner to stimuli which are different – but similar to – a conditioned stimulus, is therefore a crucial requirement for working detection dogs. Odour is a complex modality which poses unique challenges in terms of reliably predicting generalisation, when compared with auditory or visual stimuli. The primary aim of this review is to explore recent advances in our understanding of generalisation and the factors that influence it, and to consider these in light of detection dog training methods currently used in the field. We identify potential risks associated with certain training practices, and highlight areas where research is lacking and which warrant further investigation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10071-024-01907-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142562489","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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Breeding stages affect egg recognition in azure-winged magpies (Cyanopica cyanus) 繁殖阶段对蔚蓝翅喜鹊（Cyanopica cyanus）卵识别的影响

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01915-0

Jianping Liu, Fudong Zhou, Hanlin Yan, Wei Liang

{"title":"Breeding stages affect egg recognition in azure-winged magpies (Cyanopica cyanus)","authors":"Jianping Liu, Fudong Zhou, Hanlin Yan, Wei Liang","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01915-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01915-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Egg rejection often involves a cognitive process of recognizing foreign eggs, which can vary not only between species or among different individuals of the same species, but also within the same individual during different breeding stages, leading to markedly different responses to parasitic eggs. We conducted a comparative study in Wuhan, Hubei, and Fusong, Jilin, China, on the recognition and rejection behavior of azure-winged magpies (<i>Cyanopica cyanus</i>) at different breeding stages (pre-egg-laying, one-host-egg, multi-host-egg and early incubation stages). In the Fusong population, there was a significant difference in the rejection rate of model eggs by azure-winged magpies at different stages of the egg-laying period. During the one-host-egg stage, the rejection rate (63.6%) was significantly lower than that during the pre-egg-laying stage (85.7%) and the multi-host-egg stage (100%). The population of azure-winged magpies in Wuhan exhibited a 100% rejection rate towards model eggs during the pre-egg-laying stage. Furthermore, during the incubation stage, azure-winged magpies were able to accurately recognize and reject foreign eggs even when those were in majority. This indicates that azure-winged magpies employ a template-based recognition mechanism rather than relying on discordance mechanism for recognition after the onset of incubation. This study suggests that while azure-winged magpies can truly recognize their own eggs, different breeding stages still influence their rejection response towards parasitic eggs, especially during the pre-egg-laying and egg laying stages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10071-024-01915-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142540509","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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Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task 利用空间折扣任务测量野生鸣禽的自我控制能力

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01911-4

Ella McCallum, Rachael C. Shaw

{"title":"Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task","authors":"Ella McCallum, Rachael C. Shaw","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01911-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01911-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Self-control allows animals to resist instant gratification and invest more time and/or energy in better outcomes. However, widespread temporal self-control tasks lack ecological validity for many species, and few studies have explored whether self-control can be measured in the wild. We used a spatial discounting task resembling natural foraging decisions to measure self-control in wild toutouwai (<i>Petroica longipes</i>), a songbird endemic to New Zealand. Birds chose between a near, low-quality food item and a high-quality food item further away. Toutouwai showed striking individual variation in their self-control abilities. Validation tests suggested that our task reliably measured self-control in a spatial foraging context. However, individual-level performance was confounded by food preferences and the satiation and/or learning effects associated with increasing trial number, limiting the applicability of this task as a measure of individual variation in self-control. Nonetheless, we found no correlation between an individual’s self-control and their inhibitory control measured using a detour task, suggesting that self-control is a distinct ability from the suppression of impulsive motor actions in toutouwai. This study demonstrates for the first time that a bird is capable of self-control in a spatial context and provides suggestions for how future researchers may robustly quantify individual differences in self-control in the wild.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511709/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142493168","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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