ABSTRACT A basic set of navigation strategies supports navigational tasks ranging from
homing to novel detours and shortcuts. To perform these last two tasks, it is generally …

Interest in studying cognitive ecology has moved the field of animal cognition into the wild.
Animals face many challenges such as finding food and other resources, avoiding and …

Insect navigation is strikingly geometric. Many species use path integration to maintain an
accurate estimate of their distance and direction (a vector) to their nest and can store the …

Spatial navigation has received much attention from neuroscientists, leading to the
identification of key brain areas and the discovery of numerous spatially selective cells …

Almost all animals navigate their environment to find food, shelter, and mates. Spatial
cognition of nonhuman primates in large-scale environments is notoriously difficult to study …

While the ability of naturally ranging animals to recall the location of food resources and use
straight-line routes between them has been demonstrated in several studies [1, 2], it is not …

Within comparative psychology, the evolution of animal cognition is typically studied either
by comparing indirect measures of cognitive abilities (eg, relative brain size) across many …

A bstract Spatial memory allows animals to retain information regarding the location,
distribution, and quality of feeding sites to optimize foraging decisions. Western gorillas …

Animal traditions are increasingly threatened by human impact on natural habitats, posing a
challenge to conservation policies. In northeastern Brazil, bearded capuchins (Sapajus …

Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are distributed widely in the Neotropics and may
be able to survive in modified landscapes because of their omnivorous, opportunistic diet …