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dc.contributor.authorLambert, Megan L.
dc.contributor.authorMassen, Jorg J. M.
dc.contributor.authorSeed, Amanda M.
dc.contributor.authorBugnyar, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorSlocombe, Katie E.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-05T12:30:11Z
dc.date.available2017-01-05T12:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-01
dc.identifier.citationLambert , M L , Massen , J J M , Seed , A M , Bugnyar , T & Slocombe , K E 2017 , ' An ‘unkindness’ of ravens? Measuring prosocial preferences in Corvus corax ' , Animal Behaviour , vol. 123 , pp. 383-393 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.11.018en
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 248212070
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 84c3d0f7-6db3-4f0e-b3e7-3a8b8812294e
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:98E7B0B53C076BD52892B6664836344F
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85006474640
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3867-3003/work/60426867
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000391840900041
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10046
dc.descriptionJ.J.M.M. was funded by a Lise Meitner and a Stand Alone grant of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, numbers M 1352 and P26806), and T.B. was funded by the DK Program Cognition and Communication (FWF no.: W 1234) and a START Grant (FWF no.: Y 366-B17).en
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, there has been considerable research effort to determine whether other species exhibit prosocial motivations parallel to those of humans; however, these studies have focused primarily on primates, and with mixed results. We presented captive ravens with a modified prosocial choice task which aimed to address several criticisms of previous methods by including a stringent pretraining regime and a set-up that disentangles motivation to provision a conspecific from motivation to feed next to one. In this task six subjects received no rewards for themselves but could choose to deliver food rewards to either a conspecific or an empty, inaccessible compartment. Subjects did not demonstrate any prosocial tendencies (i.e. they did not preferentially choose to reward a conspecific over the empty compartment), and instead often ceased pulling on test trials when they received nothing for themselves (up to 70% of 80 trials with a partner present, up to 83% of 40 trials in a nonsocial control condition). The relationship between the subject and the partner had no influence on the subject's choices; however, subjects were more likely to pull immediately after performing socio-agonistic displays. Our results contribute to a growing body of evidence that despite their sophisticated social cognitive abilities and range of cooperative behaviours exhibited in the wild, unpaired (or unbonded) ravens do not seem to act to benefit conspecifics in the absence of immediate self-gain.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAnimal Behaviouren
dc.rights© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).en
dc.subjectAltruismen
dc.subjectAvian cognitionen
dc.subjectCorviden
dc.subjectCorvus coraxen
dc.subjectProsocialityen
dc.subjectRavenen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleAn ‘unkindness’ of ravens? Measuring prosocial preferences in Corvus coraxen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. ‘Living Links to Human Evolution’ Research Centreen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.11.018
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334721630313X#appd001en


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