Social learning by imitation in a reptile (Pogona vitticeps)

Kis, Anna; Huber, Ludwig; Wilkinson, Anna

doi:10.1007/s10071-014-0803-7

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“…Many animals engage in social learning (see Galef & Laland, 2005), including chimpanzees (e.g., Bering, Bjorklund, & Ragan, 2000;Whiten, 1998;Yamamoto, Humley, & Tanaka, 2013), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus; Bering et al, 2000), capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella; Ottoni & Mannu, 2001), and other social mammals, as well as birds, such as ravens (Bugnyar & Kotrschal, 2002), quail (Köksal & Domjan, 1998), and chickens (Nicol, 2006), and fish (e.g., nine-spined sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius; Kendal, Rendell, Pike, & Laland, 2009), and reptiles (bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps; Kis, Huber, & Wilkinson, 2015).…”

Section: Social Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Psychology of Cows

Marino¹,

Allen²

2017

ABC

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-Domestic cows (Bos taurus) are consumed worldwide as beef and veal, kept as dairy product producers, employed as draft animals in labor, and are used for a long list of other products, including leather and manure. But despite global reliance on cows for thousands of years, most people's perception of them is as plodding herd animals with little individual personality and very simple social relationships or preferences. Yet, a review of the scientific literature on cow behavior points to more complex cognitive, emotional and social characteristics. Moreover, when cow behavior is addressed, it is almost entirely done within the framework of and applied to their use as food commodities. Therefore, there is relatively little attention to the study of cow intelligence, personality and sociality at a basic comparative level. In this review, we examine the current state of scientific knowledge about cows within an objective comparative framework, describing their cognitive, emotional, and social characteristics. Our aim is to provide a more veridical and objective current summary of cow psychology on its own terms and in ways which will facilitate better-informed comparisons with other animals. Moreover, an understanding of the capabilities and characteristics of domestic cows will, it is hoped, advance our understanding of who they are as individuals.

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Section: Social Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Psychology of Cows

Marino¹,

Allen²

2017

ABC

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“…Previous research investigating conspecific displays and species recognition (Clark, Macedonia, & Rosenthal, 1997;Macedonia & Stamps, 1994;Ord, Peters, Evans, & Taylor, 2002;Van Dyk & Evans, 2007;Yang, Phelps, Crews, & Wilczynski, 2001) has successfully used video stimuli in studies with lizards, focusing on videos of male conspecifics displaying an agonistic visual signal (head bobbing), although one study on social learning in bearded dragons has also shown that these animals are able to imitate female conspecifics seen in videos (Kis, Huber, & Wilkinson, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Lateralized Eye Use Towards Video Stimuli in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps)

Frohnwieser¹,

Pike²,

Murray³

et al. 2017

AB&C

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Lateralized eye use is thought to increase brain efficiency, as the two hemispheres process different information perceived by the eyes. It has been observed in a wide variety of vertebrate species and, in general, information about conspecifics appear to elicit a left eye preference whilst information about prey elicits the opposite. In reptiles, this phenomenon has only been investigated using live conspecifics in agonistic contexts, and so it is not clear whether it can be found when using video stimuli. Here, bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) were presented with videos of female conspecifics and prey that either moved or were stationary, along with a control video of an empty background.Females exhibited a left eye bias towards conspecifics but males did not, however, both sexes looked at conspecifics significantly longer than prey. Further, animals used their left eye significantly longer when viewing moving stimuli of both categories. These results suggest that, in lizards, lateralized eye use when viewing conspecifics may be controlled by sex, and strongly influenced by stimulus movement. This study therefore provides important insights into the role of lateralized processing in lizard perception, and sets the scene for future work investigating the role of sex on perception of conspecifics and the role of motion in lateralized eye use.

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“…Much previous research has been concerned with distinguishing different social learning mechanisms used by a number of species, and their respective requirement for models with agency, including humans (Huang and Charman, 2005; Flynn and Whiten, 2013), apes (Call et al, 2005; Tennie et al, 2006), monkeys (Bugnyar and Huber, 1997; Subiaul et al, 2004; Hopper et al, 2013), dogs (Miller et al, 2009; Lakatos et al, 2014), rats (Heyes et al, 1994; Zohar and Terkel, 1991), birds (Akins et al, 2002; Auersperg et al, 2014), and reptiles (Kis et al, in press). To distinguish emulative from imitative learning, two key controls that have been used are ‘end-state’ and ‘ghost display’ conditions (reviewed in Hopper, 2010), often in conjunction with ‘two-action’ or ‘bi-directional’ tasks (Akins and Zentall, 1996; Zentall, 1996; Klein and Zentall, 2003).…”

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The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use

Hopper

Lambeth

Schapiro

et al. 2015

Behavioural Processes

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Social learning refers to individuals learning from others, including information gained through indirect social influences, such as the results of others’ actions and changes in the physical environment. One method to determine the relative influence of these varieties of information is the ‘ghost display’, in which no model is involved, but subjects can watch the results that a model would produce. Previous research has shown mixed success by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) learning from ghost displays, with some studies suggesting learning only in relatively simple tasks. To explore whether the failure of chimpanzees to learn from a ghost display may be due to neophobia when tested singly or a requirement for more detailed information for complex tasks, we presented ghost displays of a tool-use task to chimpanzees in their home social groups. Previous tests have revealed that chimpanzees are unable to easily solve this tool-use task asocially, or learn from ghost displays when tested singly, but can learn after observing conspecifics in a group setting. In the present study, despite being tested in a group situation, chimpanzees still showed no success in solving the task via trial-and-error learning, in a baseline condition, nor in learning the task from the ghost display. Simply being in the presence of their group mates and being shown the affordances of the task was not sufficient to encourage learning. Following this, in an escalating series of tests, we examined the chimpanzees’ ability to learn from a demonstration by models with agency: (1) a human; (2) video footage of a chimpanzee; (3) a live chimpanzee model. In the first two of these ‘social’ conditions, subjects showed limited success. By the end of the final open diffusion phase, which was run to determine whether this new behavior would be transmitted among the group after seeing a successful chimpanzee use the task, 83% of chimpanzees were now successful. This confirmed a marked overall effect of observing animate conspecific modeling, in contrast to the ghost condition. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: insert SI title.

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Social learning by imitation in a reptile (Pogona vitticeps)

Cited by 99 publications

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The Psychology of Cows

The Psychology of Cows

Lateralized Eye Use Towards Video Stimuli in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps)

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