The relation between social rank, neophobia and individual learning in starlings

By N. Boogert, Simon M. Reader, Kevin N. Laland. 2006

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

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Citations in the corpus

Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes. (2008, background): “…variation in innovation, or adopting a new behavior pattern when the environment changes, has been documented in several different species (Boogert et al., 2006; Godin et al., 2005; Pfeffer et al., 2002; Reader, 2003), but we know little about whether variation in innovation reflects…”
Personality in captivity reflects personality in the wild (2010, background): “…contextual difference may be social isolation in captivity, as numerous studies suggest individuals modify their risk-taking behaviour in relation to the presence and identity of conspecifics (van Oers et al. 2005; Boogert et al. 2006; Stöwe et al. 2006; Apfelbeck & Raess 2008; Pike et al. 2008).”
Behavioural profile predicts dominance status in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli (2009, unknown): “However, Boogert et al. (2006) found that in starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, dominant and subordinate birds differ in learning speed prior to the establishment of dominance relationships between birds.”
Who are the innovators? A field experiment with 2 passerine species (2011, background): “2007) or even a positive relationship between social dominance and innovativeness (Boogert et al. 2006).”
Innovative problem solving in wild meerkats (2012, background): “However, other studies have produced conflicting results (Boogert et al. 2006; Gajdon et al. 2006; Bouchard et al. 2007).”
The origin and spread of innovations in starlings (2008, methodology): “We add measurement of each starling group’s association pattern to the candidate predictors described in Boogert et al. (2006).”
Neophobia is not only avoidance: improving neophobia tests by combining cognition and ecology (2015, background): “Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) [67] WC Ob (/) SP Coloured clothes pins, styrofoam mounted on cardboard, yellow reflective material, white opaque tube cap, white spool of purple wire, green pen cap (variable) NE (variable) Y Y Y (Ob) N (Sp)”
Song complexity correlates with learning ability in zebra finch males. (2008, background): “Boogert et al. 2006, and learning versus innovativeness: 3.2”
Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, in a feeding context. (2011, methodology): “Personality has already been found to influence many components of individual behaviour such as learning (Boogert et al. 2006), mating (Wilson et al. 2010a) or antipredator behaviour (Jones & Godin 2010).”
Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way (2012, background): “However, most studies on behavioural flexibility and learning abilities to date have used only males as focal animals (Benus et al. 1990; Verbeek et al. 1994; Marchetti & Drent 2000; Boogert et al. 2006).”
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).”