Individual variation in spontaneous problem-solving performance among wild great tits

By E. Cole, D. Cram, J. Quinn. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, background): “At the within-species level, differences among individuals in innovativeness, measured using problem-solving performance, have been well documented in a variety of avian taxa, such as Psittacidae (Funk & Matteson 2004), Falconidae (Biondi et al. 2008), Corvidae (Bluff et al. 2010) and Paridae (Cole ”
Associative learning is inversely related to reversal learning and varies with nestling corticosterone exposure (2016, background): “…have shown that individuals commonly display consistency in their performance on cognitive tests (e.g. problem solving in great tits, Parus major: Cole et al., 2011; association and discrimination tasks in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus: Guillette, Hahn, Hoeschele, Przyslupski, &…”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “…some individuals particularly likely to innovate irrespective of current body state, as suggested for great tits, for which field and laboratory experiments revealed long-lasting consistency in individual tendencies to solve novel food extraction tasks (Cole et al. 2011; Morand-Ferron et al. 2011).”
Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species (2011, background): “Although small and fooddeprived guppies could find a novel food source more quickly than larger and well-fed conspecifics (Laland and Reader 1999b), recent avian studies report no effect of body condition (Boogert et al. 2010; Overington 2010; Cole et al. 2011) or motivation (Keagy et al.”
Innovative problem solving in birds: a key role of motor diversity (2014, methodology): “There is much debate about the relationship between cognition and innovation, and the idea that both species and individuals that are more innovative have ‘higher’ cognitive abilities (Cole et al., 2011; Healy & Rowe, 2007; Lefebvre, 2011).”
A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, background): “Previous work has shown that neophobia negatively affects problem-solving success (Seferta et al. 2001; Webster & Lefebvre 2001; Greenberg 2003; Bouchard et al. 2007; Cole et al. 2011; Sol et al. 2012).”
Personality and parasites: sex-dependent associations between avian malaria infection and multiple behavioural traits (2011, background): “14), a result that we also report elsewhere using a much larger sample size (Cole et al. 2011) and therefore these two behavioural traits are independent of one another.”