Selective learning in a marsupial

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1103-1114

  Griffin, Andrea S ^a,c   Evans, Christopher S ^a   Blumstein, Daniel T ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; LEARNING; MARSUPIAL; PREDATION RISK;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; CATUS; EUTHERIA; FELIS CATUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0036952672     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00840.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Abacus Concepts 1991: Superanova. Abacus Concepts, Berkeley, California.
2. Bateson, P. P. G. 1991: Are there principles of behavioural development? In: The Development and Integration of Behaviour. Essays in Honour of Robert Hinde (Bateson, P., ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 19-39.
3. Blumstein, D. T., Daniel, J. C., Griffin, A. S. & Evans, C. S. 2000: Insular tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) respond to visual but not acoustic cues from predators. Behav. Ecol. 11, 528-535.
4. Bolhuis, J. J. 1999: Early learning and the development of filial preferences in the chick. Behav. Brain Res. 98, 245-252.
5. Curio, E 1988: Cultural transmission of enemy recognition by birds. In: Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives (Zentall, T. R. & Galef, B. G. Jr., eds). L. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, New Jersey, pp. 75-97.
6. Curio, E., Ernst, U. & Vieth, W. 1978: Cultural transmission of enemy recognition: one function of mobbing. Science 202, 899-901.
7. Foree, D. D. & LoLordo, V. M. 1973: Attention in the pigeon: the differential effects of food-getting vs. shock-avoidance procedures. J. Comp. Physiol. Psych. 85, 551-558.
8. Gould, J. M. & Marler, P. 1987: Learning by instinct. Sci. Am. 255, 74-85.
9. Griffin, A. S. 2001. Training tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) to respond to predators. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Macquarie Univ., Sydney.
10. Griffin, A. S., Blumstein, D. T. & Evans, C. S. 2000: Training captive-bred or translocated animals to avoid predators. Cons. Biol. 14, 1-10.
11. Griffin, A. S., Evans, C. S. & Blumstein, D. T. 2001: Learning specificity in acquired predator recognition. Anim. Behav. 62, 577-589.
12. Huyn, H. & Feldt, L. S. 1976: Estimation of the box correction for degrees of freedom from sample data in randomized block and split-plot designs. J. Educ. Stat. 1, 69-82.
13. Johnson, M. H. & Horn, G. 1988: Development of filial preferences in dark-reared chicks. Anim. Behav. 36, 675-683.
14. Johnson, M. H. & Morton, J. 1991: Bringing in biology. In: Biology and Cognitive Development: The Case of Face Recognition. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 38-80.
15. Jones, M. E. & Stoddard, D. M. 1998: Reconstruction of the predator behaviour of the extinct marsupial thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). J. Zool. 246, 239-246.
16. Mackintosh, N. J. 1974: The psychology of animal learning. Academic Press, London.
17. Mackintosh, N. J. 1983: General principles of learning. In: Animal Behaviour. Vol 3. Genes, Development and Learning (Halliday, T. R. & Slater, P. J. B., eds). W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, pp. 149-177.
18. Magurran, A. E. 1989: Acquired recognition of predator odour in the European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus). Ethology 82, 216-223.
19. Marler, P. 1997: Three models of song learning-evidence from behavior. J. Neurobiol. 33, 501-516.
20. Marler, P. & Peters, S. 1988: The role of song phonology and syntax in vocal learning preferences in the song sparrow, Melospiza melodia. Ethology 77, 125-149.
21. McLean, I. G., Schmitt, N. T., Jarman, P. J., Duncan, C. & Wynne, C. D. L. 2000: Learning for life: training marsupials to recognise introduced predators. Behaviour 137, 1361-1376.
22. Mineka, S. & Cook, M. 1988: Social learning and the acquisition of snake fear in monkeys. In: Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives (Zentall, T. R. & Galef, B. G. Jr., eds). L. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, New Jersey, pp. 51-73.
23. Noldus Information Technologies 1995: The Observer 3.0. Wageningen, The Netherlands.
24. Pavlov, I. P. 1927: Conditioned Reflexes. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
25. SAS Institute 1998: Statview 5.0. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina.
26. Shettleworth, S. J. 1998: Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
27. Soha, J. A. & Marler, P. 2000: A species-specific acoustic cue for selective song learning in the white-crowned sparrow. Anim. Behav. 60, 297-306.
28. ten Cate, C. 1994: Perceptual mechanisms in imprinting and song learning. In: Causal Mechanisms of Behavioural Development (Hogan, J. A, & Bolhuis, J. J., eds). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 116-146.
29. Tulley, J. J. & Huntingford, F. A. 1987: Paternal care and the development of adaptive variation in anti-predator response in sticklebacks. Anim. Behav. 35, 1570-1572.
30. Winterfeld, K. T., Teuchertnoodt, G. & Dawirs, R. R. 1998: Social environment alters both ontogeny of dopamine innervation of the medial prefrontal cortex and the maturation of working memory in gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). J. Neurosci. Res. 52, 201-209.