Social play in kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) with comparisons to kea (Nestor notabilis) and kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

Social play in crested and japanese macaques: Testing the covariation hypothesis

“…Alternatively, forms of play can be considered as nonadaptive. It may be a secondary consequence of specific features of the social environment (see Diamond et al, 2006;Pellis & Iwaniuk, 1999). Such an interpretation does not preclude that play patterns bring benefit but it specifies that developmental constraints rather than selective processes are the determining factors.…”

“…The species-specific form of play has usually been neglected in play studies in favor of the influence of dominance and playmate choice. Few studies have focused on the meaning of inter-specific differences found in the forms of play (Diamond, Eason, Reid, & Bond, 2006;Palagi, 2006;Pellis & Pellis, 1997). It is unknown whether monkey species differ in the rates of behavioral patterns such as chasing, mock biting, sparring, wrestling, relative positions of partners, or intervention by third parties.…”

The Debate on Behavior in Conservation: New Zealand Integrates Theory with Practice

“…Although we offer numerous examples in which behavioral research was successfully applied to conservation, there have also been Diamond et al 2006 Raising captive chicks in social groups is a compulsory part of the kea and patterns of social development, kaka recovery plans, which improves the success of captive-bred birds in the not taxonomy wild Life-history patterns explained for recent Fleming 1962, Bell 1991 Identifying behavioral tactics in r-selected common pukeko (recent colonizer) and early invasions of same stock and K-selected endangered takahe (flightless endemic) help to explain the different conservation statuses of these species early failures. We should now build on the recent successes that illustrate how we arrive at novel solutions when merging these two disciplines, and learn from failures that might have benefited from greater integration of behavior in conservation.…”

Unrewarded Object Combinations in Captive Parrots

“…As all parrots tested are large brained and social birds with relative slow maturation we expect subjects of all species to engage in various types of primary, simple play patterns (e.g., Diamond & Bond, 2003; Diamond, Eason, Reid, & Bond, 2006). Species with the capacity for tool use or which have previously shown advanced skills in the technical domain are expected to engage in complex manipulations such as object-object or object-substrate combinations and to show structural elements within the former.…”