Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Guide
Redaktion: Bueno-Guerra, Nereida

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human species may inhabit the same world, it's likely that our perceptual worlds differ significantly. Emphasising Uexkull's concept of 'umwelt', this volume offers practical advice on how animal cognition can be successfully tested while avoiding anthropomorphic conclusions. The chapters describe the capabilities of a range of animals - from ants, to lizards to chimpanzees - revealing how to successfully investigate animal cognition across a variety of taxa. The book features contributions from leading cognition researchers, each offering a series of examples and practical tips drawn from their own experience. Together, the authors synthesise information on current field and laboratory methods, providing researchers and graduate students with methodological advice on how to formulate research questions, design experiments and adapt studies to different taxa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108359252
• Artikelnr.: 54101353

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Josep Call; Introduction: the concept of umwelt in experimental
animal cognition Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Federica Amici; 1. Ants -
individual and social cognition Zhanna Reznikova; 2. Bats - using sound to
reveal cognition Yossi Yovel and Stefan Greif; 3. Bees - the experimental
umwelt of honeybees Randolf Menzel; 4. Carib grackles - field and lab work
on a tame, opportunistic island icterid Simon Ducatez, Sarah E. Overington,
Jean-Nicolas Audet, Marine Battesti and Louis Lefebvre; 5. Chicken -
cognition in the poultry yard Cinzia Chiandetti and Giorgio Vallortigara;
6. Chimpanzees - investigating cognition in the wild Roman M. Wittig and
Catherine Crockford; 7. Dolphins and whales - taking cognitive research out
of the tanks and into the wild Volker B. Deecke; 8. Elephants - studying
cognition in the African Savannah Lucy A. Bates; 9. Fish - how to ask them
the right questions Catarina Vila Pouca and Culum Brown; 10. Hermit crabs -
information gathering by the hermit crab, pagurus bernhardus Robert W.
Elwood; 11. Hyenas - testing cognition in the umwelt of the spotted hyena
Lily Johnson-Ulrich, Kenna D. S. Lehman, Julie W. Turner and Kay E.
Holekamp; 12. Lizards - measuring cognition in lizards: practical
challenges and the influence of ecology and social behaviour Martin J.
Whiting and Daniel W. A. Noble; 13. Meerkats - identifying cognitive
mechanisms underlying meerkat coordination and communication: experimental
designs in their natural habitat Marta Manser; 14. Octopuses - mind in the
waters Jennifer A. Mather and Michael J. Kuba; 15. Grey parrots (Psittacus
erithacus) - cognitive and communicative abilities Irene M. Pepperberg; 16.
Sharks - elasmobranch cognition Tristan L. Guttridge, Kara E. Yopak and
Vera Schluessel; 17. Spiders - hints for testing cognition and learning in
jumping spiders Elizabeth M. Jakob, Skye M. Long and Margaret Bruce; 18.
Tortoises - cold-blooded cognition: how to get a tortoise out of its shell
Anna Wilkinson and Ewen Glass; Epilogue Nereida Bueno-Guerra.