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Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild

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Date
23/04/2021
Author
Janmaat, Karline R.L.
de Guinea, Miguel
Collet, Julien
Byrne, Richard W.
Robira, Benjamin
van Loon, Emiel
Jang, Haneul
Biro, Dora
Ramos-Fernández, Gabriel
Ross, Cody
Presotto, Andrea
Allritz, Matthias
Alavi, Shauhin
Van Belle, Sarie
Keywords
Biological Sciences
Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
BF Psychology
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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Abstract
Within comparative psychology, the evolution of animal cognition is typically studied either by comparing indirect measures of cognitive abilities (e.g., relative brain size) across many species or by conducting batteries of decision-making experiments among (typically) a few captive species. Here, we propose a third, complementary approach: inferring and comparing cognitive abilities through observational field records of natural information gradients and the associated variation in decision-making outcomes, using the ranging behavior of wild animals. To demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal, we present the results of a global survey assessing the availability of long-term ranging data sets from wild primates and the willingness of primatologists to share such data. We explore three ways in which such ranging data, with or without the associated behavioral and ecological data often collected by primatologists, might be used to infer and compare spatial cognition. Finally, we suggest how ecological complexity may be best incorporated into comparative analyses.
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Janmaat , K R L , de Guinea , M , Collet , J , Byrne , R W , Robira , B , van Loon , E , Jang , H , Biro , D , Ramos-Fernández , G , Ross , C , Presotto , A , Allritz , M , Alavi , S & Van Belle , S 2021 , ' Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild ' , iScience , vol. 24 , no. 4 , 102343 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102343
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iScience
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102343
ISSN
2589-0042
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23096

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