Effects of the social environment on vertebrate fitness and health in nature: Moving beyond the stress axis
Social interactions are a ubiquitous feature of the lives of vertebrate species. These may be
cooperative or competitive, and shape the dynamics of social systems, with profound effects …
cooperative or competitive, and shape the dynamics of social systems, with profound effects …
Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task
Animals frequently encounter situations in which they can choose to move either left or right.
Consistent preferences to move a specific direction may be associated with lateralization, or …
Consistent preferences to move a specific direction may be associated with lateralization, or …
Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird
Highlights•Chickadees in the wild showed rule-based learning on a serial reversal
task.•Birds showed environment-based differences in learning a serial reversal task.•Birds …
task.•Birds showed environment-based differences in learning a serial reversal task.•Birds …
[HTML][HTML] Does cognitive performance predict contest outcome in pigs?
Highlights•Cognitive variation may influence the dynamics and outcomes of animal
contests.•We investigated whether learning performance predicts contest outcome in …
contests.•We investigated whether learning performance predicts contest outcome in …
Social Relationships Between Titmice and Hybrid-Zone Chickadees in Southeastern Pennsylvania
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Additional community members may conceivably affect dynamics of ecological and
evolutionary relationships between hybridizing taxa. I investigated whether climate …
evolutionary relationships between hybridizing taxa. I investigated whether climate …