Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative

TJH Morgan, MW Feldman - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Theories of how humans came to be so ecologically dominant increasingly centre on the
adaptive abilities of human culture and its capacity for cumulative change and high-fidelity …

Species diversity and interspecific information flow

E Goodale, RD Magrath - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Interspecific information flow is known to affect individual fitness, population dynamics and
community assembly, but there has been less study of how species diversity affects …

Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together: Design and Evaluation of an Agency-Based Parrot-to-Parrot Video-Calling System for Interspecies Ethical Enrichment.

R Kleinberger, J Cunha, MM Vemuri… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Over 20 million parrots are kept as pets in the US, often lacking appropriate stimuli to meet
their high social, cognitive, and emotional needs. After reviewing bird perception and …

From whom do animals learn? A meta-analysis on model-based social learning

A Camacho-Alpízar, LM Guillette - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2023 - Springer
Social learning via the observation of or interaction with other individuals can allow animals
to obtain information about the local environment. Once social information is obtained …

High temperatures are associated with reduced cognitive performance in wild southern pied babblers

C Soravia, BJ Ashton, A Thornton… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global temperatures are increasing rapidly. While considerable research is accumulating
regarding the lethal and sublethal effects of heat on wildlife, its potential impact on animal …

Conditioned taste aversion as a tool for mitigating human-wildlife conflicts

L Snijders, NM Thierij, R Appleby… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Modern wildlife management has dual mandates to reduce human-wildlife conflict (HWC) for
burgeoning populations of people while supporting conservation of biodiversity and the …

Social transmission in the wild can reduce predation pressure on novel prey signals

L Hämäläinen, W Hoppitt, HM Rowland… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Social transmission of information is taxonomically widespread and could have profound
effects on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of animal communities. Demonstrating …

Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions

M Motyka, D Kusy, M Masek, M Bocek, Y Li… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Biologists have reported on the chemical defences and the phenetic similarity of net-winged
beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and their co-mimics. Nevertheless, our knowledge has …

Social information use by predators: expanding the information ecology of prey defences

L Hämäläinen, H M. Rowland, J Mappes, R Thorogood - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social information use is well documented across the animal kingdom, but how it influences
ecological and evolutionary processes is only just beginning to be investigated. Here we …

Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry

E Páez, JK Valkonen, KR Willmott… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most research on aposematism has focused on chemically defended prey, but the signalling
difficulty of capture remains poorly explored. Similar to classical Batesian and Müllerian …