Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments.

By D. Sol, R. Duncan, T. Blackburn, P. Cassey, L. Lefebvre. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Evolution and behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (2011, background): “In addition, broad, comparative analyses show that invasiveness in birds and mammals appears to be related to behavioural flexibility that is, in turn, associated with larger brains (Sol 2005; Sol et al. 2008).”
Socioecological adaptations by chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes verus, inhabiting an anthropogenically impacted habitat (2012, background): “Behavioural flexibility confers important fitness benefits in seasonal, novel or altered environmental situations (Reader & MacDonald 2003; Sol 2003; Sol et al. 2005).”
Wild-bird trade and exotic invasions: a new link of conservation concern? (2008, methodology): “Recent findings suggest that ecological plasticity, behavioral flexibility (Sol et al. 2005), and, in particular, the introduction effort or propagule pressure (ie number of individuals released or the number of introduction attempts; Cassey et al. 2004), have been positively related to successful…”
Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk (2008, neutral): “Innovation in foraging behavior has previously been used as an indicator of cognitive ability to predict successful colonization of new environments (Sol et al. 2005); however, few studies have considered nest-building behavior from the perspective of cognitive ability.”
Are innovative species ecological generalists? A test in North American birds (2011, background): “…path analysis of the relationship between innovation, brain size, and introduction success showed that the most likely relationship between these traits was that enlarged brain size is associated with increased innovativeness, which then leads to greater invasion potential (Sol et al. 2005a).”
Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population (2013, background): “Although innovativeness is widespread in humans, many other animals, including nonhuman primates (Kummer & Goodall 1985) and other mammals (Patterson & Mann 2011), fish (Laland & Reader 1999) and birds (Sol et al. 2005a), are also known to innovate when faced with new situations.”
The role of species traits in the establishment success of exotic birds (2009, background): “Birds, like most other taxa, have often been moved well outside their native ranges via human actions and established themselves as exotic species (Long, 1981; Lever, 2005; Sol et al., 2005a).”
Male satin bowerbird problem-solving ability predicts mating success (2009, neutral): “Recently, the greater appreciation that cognitive performance can affect fitness (Shultz et al. 2005; Sol et al. 2005, 2007, 2008; Roth & Pravosudov 2009), the obvious large investments in tissue associated with cognition (Aiello & Wheeler 1995) and the high level of complex behavioural…”
A comparison of innovative problem-solving abilities between wild and captive spotted hyaenas, Crocuta crocuta (2013, background): “Thus, innovation is thought to improve the ability of animals to survive in complex or changing environments (Sol et al. 2005).”
Invasive species in Europe: ecology, status, and policy (2011, background): “For example, behavioural flexibility as expressed by brain size was among the best predictors of invasiveness in a study of non-native birds [80].”
Living in the city: can anyone become an ‘urban exploiter'? (2007, background): “Relative brain size covaries with several traits such that species that are sedentary (Sol et al., 2005b), are more behaviourally flexible (Lefebvre et al., 2002) and are more likely to be successful invaders (Sol et al., 2002) tend to have relatively large brains.”
Play, Playfulness, Creativity and Innovation (2013, background): “Robert and MichŁle RootBernstein (2001) noted that his three-voice canon (KV559) consists of a nonsensical Latin text which when sung sounds like bawdy German.”