Innovative problem-solving in a threatened gull species, the Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus)

Castano, Melina V.; Biondi, L.; Favero, Marco; García, Germán Oscar

doi:10.1007/s10071-021-01572-7

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“…As noted above, the 25 years since Lefebvre et al’s paper has seen a marked increase in the diversity of species now accessible to cognitive testing, including multiple species in the wild (e.g. alpacas: Abramson et al 2018 ; urban raptors: Biondi et al 2022 ; lions: Borrego 2020 ; a threatened gull species: Castano et al 2022 ; Asian elephants: Jacobson et al 2022 ; bumblebees: Mirwan and Kevan 2014 ; wild African striped mice: Rochais et al 2022 ; fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rats: Rowell and Rymer 2022 ; dingoes: Smith and Litchfield 2010 ; brush-tailed possums: Wat et al 2020 ). Also importantly, although these tests are still mostly directed at innovation and problem solving as recommended by Lefebvre et al, they are increasingly being addressed to tests that are more explicitly tests of cognitive performance (e.g.…”

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Adding the neuro to cognition: from food storing to nest building

Healy

2022

Anim Cogn

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Typically, investigations of animal cognition couple careful experimental manipulations with examination of the animal’s behavioural responses. Sometimes those questions have included attempts to describe the neural underpinnings of the behavioural outputs. Over the past 25 years, behaviours that involve spatial learning and memory (such as navigation and food storing) has been one context in which such dual or correlated investigations have been both accessible and productive. Here I review some of that work and where it has led. Because of the wealth of data and insights gained from that work and song learning before it, it seems that it might also be useful to try to add some neurobiology to other systems in animal cognition. I finish then, with a description of recent work on the cognition and neurobiology of avian nest building. It is still relatively early days but asking questions about the cognition of nest building has already shown both neural correlates of nest building and that learning and memory play a much greater role in this behaviour than previously considered. While it is not yet clear how putting these components together will be synergistic, the examples of song learning and food storing provide encouragement. Perhaps this might be true for other behaviours too?

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