Effects of the social environment on vertebrate fitness and health in nature: Moving beyond the stress axis

C Lemonnier, P Bize, R Boonstra, FS Dobson… - Hormones and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Food-caching chickadees do not exhibit directional bias when learning a spatial task

LM Benedict, VK Heinen, BR Sonnenberg… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Learning predictably changing spatial patterns across days in a food-caching bird

LM Benedict, VK Heinen, BR Sonnenberg, ES Bridge… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Does cognitive performance predict contest outcome in pigs?

VE Lee, L Oldham, A Futro, M Brims, M Farish, G Arnott… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Cognitive variation may influence the dynamics and outcomes of animal
contests.•We investigated whether learning performance predicts contest outcome in …

Social Relationships Between Titmice and Hybrid-Zone Chickadees in Southeastern Pennsylvania

MN Boyle - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Additional community members may conceivably affect dynamics of ecological and
evolutionary relationships between hybridizing taxa. I investigated whether climate …