Animal innovation: An introduction.

By Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland. 2003

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A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, background): “…a novel problem or finding a new solution to an existing problem (Köhler 1925; Hinde & Fisher 1951; Kummer & Goodall 1985; Laland & Reader 1999; Reader & Laland 2003), may enable animals to exploit novel resources or utilize familiar resources in a more efficient manner (Lefebvre et al. 1997;…”
Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution (2007, background): “For example, an individual of poor competitive ability may be prompted by hunger to be more exploratory, less neophobic, or to take more risks, than it would ordinarily (Reader & Laland, 2003).”
Song repertoire size in male song sparrows correlates with detour reaching, but not with other cognitive measures (2011, background): “…condition, age, sex, reproductive success, neophobia, exploratory behaviour and habituation to captivity, to test whether these and other factors may be associated with variation in individuals’ cognitive performance on different tasks (e.g. Reader & Laland 2003; Boogert et al. 2006; Biondi 2010).”
Effects of Group Size on Approach to Novel Objects in Ravens (Corvus corax) (2006, background): “While neophobia may reduce exposure to danger, it can also limit explorative behaviour and constrain exploitation of novel food sources, learning and innovation (Seferta et al. 2001; Greenberg 2003; Reader & Laland 2003).”
Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, background): “Such tests are assumed to operationalize innovativeness (Webster & Lefebvre 2001), defined as the propensity to invent a new behaviour or to flexibly adjust established behaviours to solve new problems (Reader & Laland 2003).”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “Across all groups, subordinate adult males were the only of category of individual for which the proportion of innovators in the Reader & Laland (2003) sense (five of 23 individuals ¼ 21”
The origin and spread of innovations in starlings (2008, background): “Finally, we explore the predictive power of asocial learning performance, measured in isolation, where we might expect that good learners would acquire innovations before poor learners (Reader & Laland 2003; Kendal et al. 2007).”