Cognition in contests: mechanisms, ecology, and evolution

MS Reichert, JL Quinn - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Animal contests govern access to key resources and are a fundamental determinant of
fitness within populations. Little is known about the mechanisms generating individual …

Do hormone manipulations reduce fitness? A meta-analytic test of the Optimal Endocrine Phenotype Hypothesis

F Bonier, RM Cox - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2020 - Elsevier
Endocrine traits (eg, circulating hormone concentrations, receptor expression) can vary
considerably among individuals within populations. Here, we develop two evolutionary …

Environmental and genetic determinants of innovativeness in a natural population of birds

JL Quinn, EF Cole, TE Reed… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Much of the evidence for the idea that individuals differ in their propensity to innovate and
solve new problems has come from studies on captive primates. Increasingly, behavioural …

Inbreeding and cognition in wild populations: a relationship that remains unnoticed

I Gavriilidi, L Van Linden - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities are causing a steep decline of wildlife populations. Increased
inbreeding in shrinking populations can substantially curb individual fitness and population …

How environmental enrichment affects behavioral and glucocorticoid responses in captive blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna)

AC De Almeida, R Palme, N Moreira - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Captive animals are susceptible to chronic stress due to restricted space, lack of hiding
places, presence of visitors, or the lack of resources that promote physical and mental …

The evolution of dynamic and flexible courtship displays that reveal individual quality

SH Hollon, I García-Ruiz, T Veen… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2023 - Springer
Sexual selection is a major force shaping morphological and behavioral diversity. Existing
theory focuses on courtship display traits such as morphological ornaments whose costs …

Early life nutrition and the programming of the phenotype

KL Buchanan, A Meillère, TS Jessop - Development strategies and …, 2022 - Springer
Early developmental nutrition profoundly influences phenotypic trajectories and affects adult
morphology, physiology, behaviour, longevity and fitness across taxa. During early life, the …

Auditory discrimination learning in zebra finches: effects of sex, early life conditions and stimulus characteristics

B Kriengwatana, MJ Spierings, C ten Cate - Animal Behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•A meta-analysis of factors that may affect auditory discrimination
learning.•Females learned auditory discriminations faster than males.•Developmental …

Environmental variability, the value of information, and learning in winter residents

J Morand-Ferron, E Hermer, TB Jones, MJ Thompson - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Cognitive processes related to the collection, storage and use of information (eg learning,
memory) contribute to reducing uncertainty about the environment and can thus be key to …

Developmental stress impairs performance on an association task in male and female songbirds, but impairs auditory learning in females only

TM Farrell, A Morgan, SA MacDougall-Shackleton - Animal cognition, 2016 - Springer
In songbirds, early-life environments critically shape song development. Many studies have
demonstrated that developmental stress impairs song learning and the development of song …