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DOI | 10.1007/s10071-013-0683-2 |
Sensory information and associative cues used in food detection by wild vervet monkeys | |
Teichroeb, Julie A.1,2; Chapman, Colin A.2,3 | |
通讯作者 | Teichroeb, Julie A. |
来源期刊 | ANIMAL COGNITION
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ISSN | 1435-9448 |
EISSN | 1435-9456 |
出版年 | 2014 |
卷号 | 17期号:3页码:517-528 |
英文摘要 | Understanding animals’ spatial perception is a critical step toward discerning their cognitive processes. The spatial sense is multimodal and based on both the external world and mental representations of that world. Navigation in each species depends upon its evolutionary history, physiology, and ecological niche. We carried out foraging experiments on wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda, to determine the types of cues used to detect food and whether associative cues could be used to find hidden food. Our first and second set of experiments differentiated between vervets’ use of global spatial cues (including the arrangement of feeding platforms within the surrounding vegetation) and/or local layout cues (the position of platforms relative to one another), relative to the use of goal-object cues on each platform. Our third experiment provided an associative cue to the presence of food with global spatial, local layout, and goal-object cues disguised. Vervets located food above chance levels when goal-object cues and associative cues were present, and visual signals were the predominant goal-object cues that they attended to. With similar sample sizes and methods as previous studies on New World monkeys, vervets were not able to locate food using only global spatial cues and local layout cues, unlike all five species of platyrrhines thus far tested. Relative to these platyrrhines, the spatial location of food may need to stay the same for a longer time period before vervets encode this information, and goal-object cues may be more salient for them in small-scale space. |
英文关键词 | Cercopithecine Spatial cognition Sensory ecology Associative cue Navigation |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA ; Canada |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000334499100002 |
WOS关键词 | SPATIAL MEMORY ; CAPUCHIN MONKEYS ; LANDMARK USE ; COLOR-VISION ; DESERT ANTS ; WIN-STAY ; BEHAVIOR ; FOREST ; CALLICEBUS ; NAVIGATION |
WOS类目 | Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology |
WOS研究方向 | Behavioral Sciences ; Zoology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/180637 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Anthropol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA; 2.McGill Univ, Dept Anthropol, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T7, Canada; 3.Wildlife Conservat Soc, Bronx, NY 10460 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Teichroeb, Julie A.,Chapman, Colin A.. Sensory information and associative cues used in food detection by wild vervet monkeys[J],2014,17(3):517-528. |
APA | Teichroeb, Julie A.,&Chapman, Colin A..(2014).Sensory information and associative cues used in food detection by wild vervet monkeys.ANIMAL COGNITION,17(3),517-528. |
MLA | Teichroeb, Julie A.,et al."Sensory information and associative cues used in food detection by wild vervet monkeys".ANIMAL COGNITION 17.3(2014):517-528. |
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