In recent decades, a burgeoning literature has documented the cultural transmission of
behavior through social learning in numerous vertebrate and invertebrate species. One …

Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing
environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other species are thriving in …

Despite prolonged interest in comparing brain size and behavioral proxies of
'intelligence'across taxa, the adaptive and cognitive significance of brain size variation …

Invasive species are a global conservation problem that have an enormous economic cost.
Understanding the attributes of invasive species and what makes them successful at …

Adapting to environmental change is a major challenge faced by animals and the role of
individual behavioural differences in facilitating this process is currently the focus of much …

Plastic pollution has significantly impacted terrestrial ecosystems and using bird nests to
monitor microplastics in the environment is economical, uses green reagents, is relatively …

Despite evidence that organisms are more likely to exhibit their full range of cognitive
abilities under conditions found in nature, studies evaluating cognition under such …

Behavioural flexibility, the ability to alter behaviour in response to environmental feedback,
and to relinquish previously successful solutions to problems, is a crucial ability in allowing …

Behavioral flexibility is considered important for a species to adapt to environmental change.
However, it is unclear how behavioral flexibility works: it relates to problem solving ability …

The string-pulling paradigm is an approach commonly used in the study of animal cognition
to investigate problem-solving abilities. This test involves an out-of-reach reward that can …