Animal Behavior Reading Group

Past Readings - Fall 2011

Date Paper title

Sept. 23
Plotnik et al. 2011. Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task. PNAS.
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Sept. 30

O'Riain et al. 1996. A dispersive morph in the naked mole rat. Nature.

O'Riain and Jarvis. 1995. Colony member recognition and xenophobia in the naked mole rat. Animal Behavior.
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Oct. 7
Mather, J. 2008. To boldly go where no mollusc has gone before: Personality, play, thinking, and consciousness in cephalopods. American Malacological Bulletin.
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Oct. 14
Slobodchikoff et al. 2009. Prairie dog alarm calls encode labels about predator color. Animal Cognition.
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Oct. 21
Morand-Ferron, J. et al. 2011. Larger groups of passerine are more efficient problem solvers in the wild. PNAS.
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Oct. 28
Dally, J. et al. 2006. Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when. Science.
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Nov. 4
Bousquet, C. et al. Resolutions of experimentally induced symmetrical conflicts of interest in meerkats. 2011. Animal Behavior.
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Nov. 11
Passalacqua, C. et al. Human-directed gazing behavior in puppies and adult dogs, Canis lupus familiaris. Animal Behavior.
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Nov. 18
Teschke, I. et al. Sometimes tool use is not the key: no evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches. Animal Behavior.
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Dec. 2
Melissa Bateson, Suzanne Desire, Sarah E. Gartside, Geraldine A. Wright (June 2011) Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases. Current Biology 21(12):1070-1073.