Drop-catch behaviour is play in herring gulls, Larus argentatus

Gamble, Jennifer R.; Cristol, Daniel A.

doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1903

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“…Play behavior has been documented in a wide range of nonhuman animals including dogs, coyotes, and wolves (Bekoff, 1974), domestic cattle (Brownlee, 1954;Jensen & Kyhn, 2000), pigs (Blackshaw, Swain, Blackshaw, Thomas, & Gillies, 1997;Donaldson, Newberry, Spinka, & Cloutier, 2002), mice (Terranova, Laviola, & Alleva, 1993), cats (Caro, 1980;Hall & Bradshaw, 1998), bottlenose dolphins (McCowan, Marino, Vance, Walke, & Reiss, 2000), beluga whales (Delfour & Aulagnier, 1997), herring gulls (Gamble & Cristol, 2002), and octopuses (Mather & Anderson, 1999), to cite just a few. There are species within every family of mammals that demonstrate some play (Burghardt, 1998).…”

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Play deprivation without social isolation: Housing controls

Holloway

Suter

2003

Developmental Psychobiology

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Three experiments were conducted to control for the effects of housing conditions during play deprivation on subsequent play rebound in periadolescent rats. To address play deprivation without the confound of social isolation, in Experiment 1, pairs of subjects were housed either in cages divided by wire mesh that allowed for olfactory, visual, auditory, and tactile interactions with a same-sex age-mate but prevented rough and tumble play or in standard cages. Running wheels were provided to similarly housed subjects in Experiment 2 to control for the ability to engage in physical activity. In Experiment 3, standard and brooder cages were used to control for the effects of housing area. Play-deprived subjects in all conditions showed a greatly increased number of play responses immediately following deprivation. The results from these experiments more clearly indicate that the absence of play is the crucial feature that brings about play rebound following deprivation.

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Play deprivation without social isolation: Housing controls

Holloway

Suter

2003

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Social play may include various components that are facilitated (e.g. Ashmole and Tovar, 1968;Negro et al, 1996;Gamble and Cristol, 2002), but facilitation alone does not constitute sufficient evidence for social play. Our approach thus contrasts with that of Harvey et al (2002), who divided play in captive Hawaiian crows (Corvus hawaiiensis) into solo and social play based on the proximity of the mate regardless of whether or not the birds were responding to each other.…”

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“…Most instances of avian play behavior described in the literature are essentially solitary, either locomotory play (e.g. aerobatic flight of raptors, gulls and frigate birds in Stonehouse and Stonehouse, 1963;Simmons and Mendelsohn, 1993;Pandolfi, 1996;Gamble and Cristol, 2002) or object play, in the form of repeated manipulation of inappropriate items (e.g. "play caching" by pinyon jays, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, in Marzluff and Balda, 1992 and magpies, Pica pica, in Deckert, 1991; tossing stones by warblers, Sylvia borin in Sauer, 1956; bouncing on food by motmots, Eumomota superciliosa, in Smith, 1977).…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Social Play in Birds

Diamond

Bond

2003

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SummaryAlthough social play is broadly distributed among mammals, it is infrequently encountered in other vertebrate taxa. It is, however, displayed in a fully realized and complex form in several groups of birds. Unambiguous accounts of social play have been recorded from thirteen species of parrots, seven species of corvids, and several hornbills and Eurasian babblers. We conducted an analysis of the avian play literature, testing for differences between avian taxa, as well as for correlations between play complexity, brain size, and age of first reproduction. Corvids were far more likely to show social object play than parrots. Corvids, parrots, and hornbills had larger relative brain sizes than would be predicted from a class-level allometric regression, but brain size was not associated with the complexity of social play among genera within taxa. Play complexity within parrots and corvids was, however, significantly associated with the age of first reproduction. The likelihood of complex social play appears to increase when delayed reproduction is accompanied by persisting relationships between adults and post-fledging juveniles. The adaptive significance of social play in birds thus offers intriguing parallels to similar analyses in mammals.

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“…Such a process would qualify as emotional contagion. The apparent contagiousness of play in groups of animals has been widely noted (e.g., Baerends, 1989;Baldwin & Baldwin, 1974;Bekoff & Byers, 1981;Fagen, 1981;Gamble & Cristol, 2002;Gomendio, 1988;Gwinner, 1966 ), andHeld andŠpinka (2011) have proposed that the spread of play might be a case of emotional contagion.…”

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Sub-adult Ravens Synchronize their Play: A Case of Emotional Contagion?

Osvath¹,

Sima²

2014

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-Emotional contagion -the alignment of emotions between individuals through behavioral synchronization -is proposed as a key, basic component of human social cognition and empathy. In the field of cognitive zoology, contagious behaviors have also received attention. Several such behaviors have been documented in various species. Nevertheless, emotional and behavioral contagion differ. Emotional contagion -a term predominantly used in human psychology -requires that the contagious behavior leads to converging emotional states. In non-linguistic animals, it is difficult to determine whether a behavior "caught" from someone else results in a similar affective state or remains a purely behavioral response. Some studies suggest the latter as a possibility. To disentangle the problem, we explored instances of contagious behaviors within the play domain. In several species, play involves a variety of behaviors falling into different categories: social, object and locomotor play. If a category of play in one individual induces a different category of play in another, this suggests the spread of a generally playful mood rather than a species-specific motor response. Although some studies suggest emotional contagion in mammals, it is not known whether it occurs in birds. We investigated play contagion in a group of ravens, well known for their complex social skills. The results indicate emotional contagion: the birds engaged in all categories of play on a higher level under the condition where contagion was likely to occur.

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Drop-catch behaviour is play in herring gulls, Larus argentatus

Cited by 25 publications

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Play deprivation without social isolation: Housing controls

Play deprivation without social isolation: Housing controls

A Comparative Analysis of Social Play in Birds

Sub-adult Ravens Synchronize their Play: A Case of Emotional Contagion?

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