Experimental cognitive ethology

Griffin, Donald R.

doi:10.1017/s0140525x00076548

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“…The significance of the ability to plan Many animal species have evolved specific cognitive abilities that enable them to better exploit particular environmental circumstances (e.g., Garcia et al, 1985;Griffin, 1991;Marler, 1993;Shettleworth, 1993;Bekoff & Jamieson, 1996: Cummins-Dellarosa, 1996Whiten, 1998;Bard & Russell, 1999;Corballis & Lea, 1999). However, more generalized cognitive abilities are relatively rare among nonhuman animals (Reader & Laland, 2003;Hurley & Nudds, 2006;Wasserman & Zentall, 2006), despite the obvious evolutionary advantages of such forms of intelligence.…”

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How intelligent are dolphins? A partial answer based on their ability to plan their behavior when confronted with novel problems

Kuczaj

Gory²,

Xitco

2009

Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology

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The nature and extent of dolphin intelligence has long intrigued humans. Unequivocal answers to the question "how intelligent are dolphins?" have proven evasive due to both the existing myriad views of intelligence and the ambiguity of much spontaneous dolphin behavior. In this paper, we focus on one aspect of intelligence, namely the ability to plan one's behavior in a meaningful way. The generalized ability to create novel and appropriate behavioral plans when confronted with new problems has obvious evolutionary advantages, but has been found in relatively few species. The studies reported in this paper demonstrate planning behaviors in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in conditions quite different from those that occur during dolphin foraging and mating (two areas in which wild dolphins may engage in planning). The dolphins' ability to plan their behaviors in these novel contexts provides additional evidence that generalized planning ability is not unique to humans, and demonstrate that human-like language is not required for generalized planning skills. These findings also suggest that in addition to species niche specific cognitive abilities, generalized cognitive abilities may play an important role in the evolutionary success of some species.

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Section: Do Big Brains Mean More Intelligence?mentioning

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How intelligent are dolphins? A partial answer based on their ability to plan their behavior when confronted with novel problems

Kuczaj

Gory²,

Xitco

2009

Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology

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“…We hope that our work will spark interest for experimental research on intentional tactical deception in mice and open a conceptual debate on the topic. This would help to shed light not only on deception in non-human animals but also on non-human intentionality, a field of inquiry whose importance has often been highlighted by cognitive ethology [18,[78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87].…”

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Catch me if you can: free-living mice show a highly flexible dodging behaviour suggestive of intentional tactical deception

d'Isa,

Parsons,

Chrzanowski

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Intentional tactical deception, the employment of a tactic to intentionally deceive another animal, is a complex behaviour based on higher-order cognition, that has rarely been documented outside of primates and corvids. New laboratory-to-field assays, however, provide the opportunity to investigate such behaviour among free-living mice. In the present study, we placed laboratory-style test chambers with a single entrance near a forest outside Warsaw, where we observed the social interactions of two territorial murids, black-striped and yellow-necked mice, under food competition for seven months. Notably, among the social interactions, we video-recorded 21 instances of deceptive pursuer evasion. In the most obvious cases, an individual inside the chamber, to avoid an incoming mouse, hid by the chamber opening (the only means to enter or exit), paused until the pursuer entered and passed by, and then exploited the distraction of the back-turned pursuer by fleeing through the opening in a direction opposite to the one the pursuer came from. This deceptive dodging is the first evidence of a behaviour suggestive of intentional tactical deception among mice. As such, this deceptive behaviour may be of interest not only for rodent psychology but also, more generally, for the fields of non-human intentionality and theory of mind.

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“…Propiedades de los procesos subjetivos Griffin (1976Griffin ( , 1978Griffin ( , 1981 propone ciertos criterios, los cuales podrían señalar aspectos de los procesos subjetivos, como el "hacerse consciente" o como el "pensamiento". Señala además que en estos procesos pareciera estar implícita la existencia de una "comunicación intencional" entre dos representantes de la misma especie.…”

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Santibáñez

2002

RevPsicología

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Experimental cognitive ethology

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

How intelligent are dolphins? A partial answer based on their ability to plan their behavior when confronted with novel problems

How intelligent are dolphins? A partial answer based on their ability to plan their behavior when confronted with novel problems

Catch me if you can: free-living mice show a highly flexible dodging behaviour suggestive of intentional tactical deception

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