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DOI10.1007/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
ISSN1435-9448
EISSN1435-9456
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
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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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