Behaviour Lecture 2 Animal Cognition

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Darwin
variation and selection cyclical process, natural selection, adaptation outcome
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Romanes
1812 collection of anecdotes about animal intelligence/behaviour
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Lloyd Morgan
performance improved over time- trial and error learning, find simplest explanation for behaviour
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Thorndike (1898, 1911)
experimental methods used in the study of animals - cats
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Tinbergen, (1963)
4 questions function, phylogeny (evolution), ontology (dev), mechanism
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Pfungst, 1911
Clever hans never looked at the objects in question to answer
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Hempel de Ibarra, Vorobyev, & Menzel, 2014
Bees: green, blue, ultraviolet
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Hunt et al., 1998
Birds: e.g., blue **** perceive UV- Crest of blue *** (on head) may look blue to us, but its actually ultraviolet, Mens brighter than females Females prefer males with brighter crests
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Jezierski, Walczak, & Gorecka, 2009
dogs sense of smell to detect stuff- food explosives illegal substances and diseases such as cancer via smelling breath
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Konishi see Takahashi, 2010
barn owls can catch prey in dark
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Lohmann et al., 2004
sea turtles- magnetic sensitivity Turtles can distinguish different locations by the magnetic field, In pool with coil so could manipulate magnetic field – turtles oriented back towards their test site
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