Studies in the Learning Abilities of Brown-Necked Ravens and Herring Gulls I. Oddity Learning

Benjamini, L.

doi:10.1163/156853983x00345

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“…Ravens and gulls trained to peck the odd object out of six three-dimensional objects arranged horizontally on a tray were successful in transfer tests (Benjamini, 1983). Goats trained to choose the odd stimulus of four stimuli projected in equal sectors on a computer monitor learned a simplified traditional oddity problem, but only a single goat was able to successfully transfer to novel stimulus oddity problems (Roitberg and Franz, 2004).…”

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Relational learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Oddity and nonoddity discrimination

Muszynski

Couvillon

2015

Behavioural Processes

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Relational learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Oddity and nonoddity discrimination

Muszynski

Couvillon

2015

Behavioural Processes

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“…While comparative attempts to categorise or rank the cognition of gulls relative to other animals have been inconclusive [33][34][35][36], it is clear from naturalistic foraging tasks that gulls have rich behavioural repertoires, suggestive of a high level of cognition. Observations of herring gulls dropping shells demonstrate persistence, concentration, and mental representations of the distribution of drop sites [33]; systematic food handling reflects skill and purposefulness [33].…”

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Inter-species stimulus enhancement: herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) mimic human food choice during foraging

2023

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Herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) are one of few species that thrive in anthropogenic landscapes, and their familiarity with people makes them an excellent target for studies of inter-species social cognition. Urban gulls pay attention to human behaviour in food-related contexts and, thus, we set out to investigate whether such cues can influence a gull's attention to and choice of potential food items in their environment. Herring gulls were given free choice of two differently coloured anthropogenic food items in the presence of a demonstrator, who was either sitting still or eating food from an item that matched one of the presented ones. We found that a demonstrator eating significantly increased the likelihood of a gull pecking one of the presented items. Furthermore, 95% of pecks were directed toward the presented food item that colour-matched the demonstrator's food item. The results showed gulls were able to use human cues for stimulus enhancement and foraging decisions. Given the relatively recent history of urbanization in herring gulls, this cross-species social information transfer could be a by-product of the cognitive flexibility inherent in kleptoparasitic species.

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Behavioral effects of early postnatal lead exposure in herring gull (Larus argentatus) chicks

Burger

1990

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

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Studies in the Learning Abilities of Brown-Necked Ravens and Herring Gulls I. Oddity Learning

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

Relational learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Oddity and nonoddity discrimination

Relational learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera): Oddity and nonoddity discrimination

Inter-species stimulus enhancement: herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) mimic human food choice during foraging

Behavioral effects of early postnatal lead exposure in herring gull (Larus argentatus) chicks

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