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Many faces of dominance: the manifestation of cohabiting companion dogs' rank in competitive and non-competitive scenarios. 支配力的多面性：同居伴侣犬在竞争和非竞争场景中的等级表现。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01842-0

Kata Vékony, Péter Pongrácz

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Responses to novelty in wild insular birds: comparing breeding populations in ecologically contrasting habitats. 海岛野生鸟类对新奇事物的反应：比较不同生态栖息地的繁殖种群。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01838-w

Samara Danel, Nancy Rebout, Léna Bureau, Timothée Zidat, Dora Biro, Francesco Bonadonna

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Choosing the best way: how wild common marmosets travel to efficiently exploit resources 选择最佳途径：野生普通狨猴如何有效利用资源。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01864-8

Dêverton Plácido Xavier, Filipa Abreu, Antonio Souto, Nicola Schiel

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Gestural communication in wild spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) 野生蜘蛛猴（Ateles geoffroyi）的手势交流。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01854-w

Felipe Villa-Larenas, Miquel Llorente, Katja Liebal, Federica Amici

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The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research. 亲社会行为的近似调节：建立比较研究的概念框架。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01846-w

Kathrin S Kopp, Patricia Kanngiesser, Rahel K Brügger, Moritz M Daum, Anja Gampe, Moritz Köster, Carel P van Schaik, Katja Liebal, Judith M Burkart

{"title":"The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research.","authors":"Kathrin S Kopp, Patricia Kanngiesser, Rahel K Brügger, Moritz M Daum, Anja Gampe, Moritz Köster, Carel P van Schaik, Katja Liebal, Judith M Burkart","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01846-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01846-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans and many other animal species act in ways that benefit others. Such prosocial behaviour has been studied extensively across a range of disciplines over the last decades, but findings to date have led to conflicting conclusions about prosociality across and even within species. Here, we present a conceptual framework to study the proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour in humans, non-human primates and potentially other animals. We build on psychological definitions of prosociality and spell out three key features that need to be in place for behaviour to count as prosocial: benefitting others, intentionality, and voluntariness. We then apply this framework to review observational and experimental studies on sharing behaviour and targeted helping in human children and non-human primates. We show that behaviours that are usually subsumed under the same terminology (e.g. helping) can differ substantially across and within species and that some of them do not fulfil our criteria for prosociality. Our framework allows for precise mapping of prosocial behaviours when retrospectively evaluating studies and offers guidelines for future comparative work.</p>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907469/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140011989","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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Spatial working memory in a disappearing object task is impaired in female but not male dogs with chronic osteoarthritis. 患有慢性骨关节炎的雌性狗（而非雄性狗）在物体消失任务中的空间工作记忆会受损。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01845-x

Melissa Smith, Joanna C Murrell, Michael Mendl

{"title":"Spatial working memory in a disappearing object task is impaired in female but not male dogs with chronic osteoarthritis.","authors":"Melissa Smith, Joanna C Murrell, Michael Mendl","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01845-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01845-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic pain in humans is associated with impaired working memory but it is not known whether this is the case in long-lived companion animals, such as dogs, who are especially vulnerable to developing age-related chronic pain conditions. Pain-related impairment of cognitive function could have detrimental effects on an animal's ability to engage with its owners and environment or to respond to training or novel situations, which may in turn affect its quality of life. This study compared the performance of 20 dogs with chronic pain from osteoarthritis and 21 healthy control dogs in a disappearing object task of spatial working memory. Female neutered osteoarthritic dogs, but not male neutered osteoarthritic dogs, were found to have lower predicted probabilities of successfully performing the task compared to control dogs of the same sex. In addition, as memory retention interval in the task increased, osteoarthritic dogs showed a steeper decline in working memory performance than control dogs. This suggests that the effects of osteoarthritis, and potentially other pain-related conditions, on cognitive function are more clearly revealed in tasks that present a greater cognitive load. Our finding that chronic pain from osteoarthritis may be associated with impaired working memory in dogs parallels results from studies of human chronic pain disorders. That female dogs may be particularly prone to these effects warrants further investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140011987","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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Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows. 殖民繁殖会影响谷仓燕子潜在的健身认知过程。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01841-1

Angela Medina-García, Ellen Scherner, Molly T McDermott, Mark E Hauber, Rebecca J Safran

{"title":"Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows.","authors":"Angela Medina-García, Ellen Scherner, Molly T McDermott, Mark E Hauber, Rebecca J Safran","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01841-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01841-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many animals breed colonially, often in dense clusters, representing a complex social environment with cognitive demands that could ultimately impact individual fitness. However, the effects of social breeding on the evolution of cognitive processes remain largely unknown. We tested the hypothesis that facultative colonial breeding influences attention and decision-making. Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) breed in solitary pairs or in a range of colony sizes, up to dozens of pairs. We tested for selective attention to social information with playbacks of conspecific alarm calls and for decision-making with simulated predator intrusions, across a range of colony sizes from 1 to 33 pairs. We also evaluated the adaptive value of both processes by measuring seasonal reproductive success. Swallows breeding in larger colonies were more selective in their attention to social information. Birds breeding in larger colonies were also less risk averse, deciding to return more quickly to their nests after a predator approach paradigm. Finally, birds that showed higher selective attention hatched more eggs and birds that returned to their nests more quickly after a predator intrusion had more nestlings. Although we cannot fully attribute these fitness outcomes to the cognitive measures considered in this study, our results suggest that social breeding plays a role in adaptively shaping both the acquisition of social information and decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012047","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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Recognizing structure in novel tunes: differences between human and rats 识别新曲调中的结构：人类与大鼠之间的差异。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01848-8

Paola Crespo-Bojorque, Elodie Cauvet, Christophe Pallier, Juan M. Toro

{"title":"Recognizing structure in novel tunes: differences between human and rats","authors":"Paola Crespo-Bojorque, Elodie Cauvet, Christophe Pallier, Juan M. Toro","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01848-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01848-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A central feature in music is the hierarchical organization of its components. Musical pieces are not a simple concatenation of chords, but are characterized by rhythmic and harmonic structures. Here, we explore if sensitivity to music structure might emerge in the absence of any experience with musical stimuli. For this, we tested if rats detect the difference between structured and unstructured musical excerpts and compared their performance with that of humans. Structured melodies were excerpts of Mozart's sonatas. Unstructured melodies were created by the recombination of fragments of different sonatas. We trained listeners (both human participants and Long-Evans rats) with a set of structured and unstructured excerpts, and tested them with completely novel excerpts they had not heard before. After hundreds of training trials, rats were able to tell apart novel structured from unstructured melodies. Human listeners required only a few trials to reach better performance than rats. Interestingly, such performance was increased in humans when tonality changes were included, while it decreased to chance in rats. Our results suggest that, with enough training, rats might learn to discriminate acoustic differences differentiating hierarchical music structures from unstructured excerpts. More importantly, the results point toward species-specific adaptations on how tonality is processed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907461/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140011985","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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Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds 听觉风险识别是野生鸟类跨越领地边界的社会传播。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01858-6

Jakub Szymkowiak

{"title":"Auditory risk recognition is socially transmitted across territory borders in wild birds","authors":"Jakub Szymkowiak","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01858-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01858-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prey species commonly assess predation risk based on acoustic signals, such as predator vocalizations or heterospecific alarm calls. The resulting risk-sensitive decision-making affects not only the behavior and life-history of individual prey, but also has far-reaching ecological consequences for population, community, and ecosystem dynamics. Although auditory risk recognition is ubiquitous in animals, it remains unclear how individuals gain the ability to recognize specific sounds as cues of a threat. Here, it has been shown that free-living birds (Wood Warblers <i>Phylloscopus sibilatrix</i>) can learn to recognize unfamiliar, complex sounds (samples of punk rock songs) as cues of a threat from conspecifics holding adjacent territories during the spring breeding season. In a playback experiment, Wood Warblers initially ignored the unfamiliar sounds, but after repeatedly hearing that these sounds trigger alarm calling reaction of neighbors, most individuals showed an anti-predator response to them. Moreover, once learned soon after nestlings hatching, the anti-predator response of parents toward previously unfamiliar sounds was then retained over the entire nestlings rearing period. These results demonstrate that social learning via the association of unfamiliar sounds with known alarm signals enables the spread of anti-predator behavior across territory borders and provides a mechanism explaining the widespread abilities of animals to assess predation risk based on acoustic cues.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907423/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012043","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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Cognitive flexibility in urban yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata. 城市黄獴（Cynictis penicillata）的认知灵活性。

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Animal Cognition Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01839-9

Mijke Müller, Neville Pillay

{"title":"Cognitive flexibility in urban yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata.","authors":"Mijke Müller, Neville Pillay","doi":"10.1007/s10071-024-01839-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10071-024-01839-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive flexibility enables animals to alter their behaviour and respond appropriately to environmental changes. Such flexibility is important in urban settings where environmental changes occur rapidly and continually. We studied whether free-living, urban-dwelling yellow mongooses, Cynictis penicillata, in South Africa, are cognitively flexible in reversal learning and attention task experiments (n = 10). Reversal learning was conducted using two puzzle boxes that were distinct visually and spatially, each containing a preferred or non-preferred food type. Once mongooses learned which box contained the preferred food type, the food types were reversed. The mongooses successfully unlearned their previously learned response in favour of learning a new response, possibly through a win-stay, lose-shift strategy. Attention task experiments were conducted using one puzzle box surrounded by zero, one, two or three objects, introducing various levels of distraction while solving the task. The mongooses were distracted by two and three distractions but were able to solve the task despite the distractions by splitting their attention between the puzzle box task and remaining vigilant. However, those exposed to human residents more often were more vigilant. We provide the first evidence of cognitive flexibility in urban yellow mongooses, which enables them to modify their behaviour to urban environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":7879,"journal":{"name":"Animal Cognition","volume":"27 1","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10907452/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012046","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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