Highlights•The ecological approach to cognitionaims at understanding within and between
species differences in cognitive performance.•It is key to understand individual and species' …

Highlights•Western Australian magpies perform worse in a learning task when heat
stressed.•Individual performance was repeatable within, but not between, conditions.•Birds …

Measures of cognitive performance, derived from psychometric tasks, have yielded
important insights into the factors governing cognitive variation. However, concerns remain …

Animals on islands typically depart from their mainland relatives in assorted aspects of their
biology. Because they seem to occur in concert, and to some extent evolve convergently in …

Cognition is an essential tool for animals to deal with environmental challenges.
Nonetheless, the ecological forces driving the evolution of cognition throughout the animal …

Cognition is vital for carrying out behaviours required for survival and reproduction.
Cognitive performance varies between species, but also between individuals within …

But fish cognitive ecology did not begin in rivers and streams. Rather, one of the starting
points for work on fish cognitive ecology was work done on the use of visual cues by homing …

The provision of environmental enrichments (EEs: resources that meet animals' needs and
preferences) tends to improve the welfare of captive animals. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are a …

Recent studies on the differences in cognitive ability between individuals focused on two
aspects: one is whether the individual differences in cognitive ability are related to brain …

The evolution of cognition is one of the most enigmatic topics within biology. In particular,
which exact (socio-) ecological forces shape the evolution of cognition remains unclear …