Is hippocampal volume affected by specialization for food hoarding in birds?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1555-1563

  Brodin, Anders ^a   Lundborg, Ken ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corvidae; Food hoarding; Hippocampus; Memory; Paridae

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MEMORY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDAE; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; NUCIFRAGA; PARIDAE;

EID: 0042030994     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2413     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Balda, R. P. & Kamil, A. C. 1992 Long-term spatial memory in Clark's nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana. Anim. Behav. 44, 761-769.
2. Barnea, A. & Nottebohm, F. 1994 Seasonal recruitment of hippocampal neurons in adult free-ranging black-capped chickadees. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 91, 11 217-11 221.
3. Basil, J. A., Kamil, A. C., Balda, R. B. & Fite, K. V. 1996 Difference in hippocampal volume among food storing corvids. Brain Behav. Evol. 47, 156-164.
4. Birkhead, T. 1990 The magpies. London: Poyser.
5. Bolhuis, J. J. & Macphail, E. M. 2001 A critique of the neuroecology of learning and memory. Trends Cogn. Sci. 5, 426-433.
6. Bossema, I. 1979 Jays and oaks: an eco-ethological study of symbiosis. Behaviour 70, 1-117.
7. Brodin, A. 1992 Cache dispersion affects retrieval time in hoarding Willow Tits. Ornis Scand. 23, 7-12.
8. Brodin, A. 1993 Low rate of loss of willow tit caches may increase the adaptiveness of long-term hoarding. Auk 110, 642-646.
9. Brodin, A. 1994 The role of naturally stored food supplies in the winter diet of the boreal Willow Tit Parus montanus. Ornis Svecica 4, 31-40.
10. Brodin, A. & Ekman, J. 1994 Benefits of food hoarding. Nature 372, 510.
11. Brodin, A. & Kunz, C. 1997 An experimental study of cache recovery by hoarding willow tits after different retention intervals. Behaviour 134, 881-890.
12. Brodin, A., Lahti, K., Lens, L. & Suhonen, J. 1994 Do crested tits, Parus cristatus, store more food at northern latitudes? Anim. Behav. 48, 990-993.
13. Brodin, A., Lahti, K., Lens, L. & Suhonen, J. 1996 A northern population of Willow Tits Parus montanus did not store more than southern ones. Ornis Fennica 73, 114-118.
14. Brotons, L. 1999 Chapter 7: food hoarding in the coal tit. Anonymous winter ecology of tits (Paridae) in boreal and subalpine forests: social organisation and the role of food hoarding. PhD thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 68-81.
15. Brown, M. V. 2000 Neuronal correlates of recognition memory. In Brain, perception, memory. Advances in cognitive neuroscience (ed. J. J. Bolhuis), pp. 185-208. Oxford University Press.
16. Chettleburgh, M. R. 1952 Observations on the collection and burial of acorns by Jays in Hainault forest. Br. Birds 14, 359-364.
17. Clayton, N. 1993 Lateralization and unilateral transfer of spatial memory in marsh tits. J. Comp. Physiol. A 171, 799-806.
18. Clayton, N. S. & Dickinson, A. 1999 Memory for the content of caches by scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens). J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Processes 25, 82-91.
19. Clayton, N. S. & Krebs, J. 1994 Memory for spatial and object-specific cues in food-storing and non-storing birds. J. Comp. Physiol. A 174, 371-379.
20. Darley-Hill, S. & Johnson, W. C. 1981 Acorn dispersal by the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Oecologia 50, 231-232.
21. Ekman, J., Brodin, A., Bylin, A. & Sklepkovych, B. 1996 Selfish long-term benefits of hoarding in the Siberian jay. Behav. Ecol. 7, 140-144.
22. Felsenstein, J. 1985 Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am. Nat. 125, 1-15.
23. Gibb, J. A. 1960 Populations of tits and goldcrests and their food supply in pine plantations. Ibis 102, 163-208.
24. Grubb, T. C. & Pravosudov, V. V. 1994 Toward a general theory of energy management in wintering birds. J. Avian Biol. 25, 255-260.
25. Haftorn, S. 1956 Contribution to the food biology of tits especially about storing of surplus food. Part IV. A comparative analysis of Parus atricapillus L., P. cristatus L. and P. ater L. Kgl Norske Vidensk Selsk Skr. 4, 1-54.
26. Haftorn, S. 1959 The proportion of spruce seeds removed by the tits in a Norwegian spruce forest in 1954-55. Kgl Norske Vidensk Selsk Forh. 32, 121-125.
27. Haftorn, S. 1974 Storage of surplus food by the Boreal Chickadee (Parus hudsonicus) in Alaska, with some records on the Mountain chickadee (P. gambeli) in Colorado. Ornis Scand. 5, 145-161.
28. Hampton, R. R., Sherry, D. F., Shettleworth, S. J., Khurgel, M. & Ivy, G. 1995 Hippocampal volume and food-storing behavior are related in parids. Brain Behav. Evol. 45, 54-61.
29. Healy, S. D. & Krebs, J. R. 1992 Food storing and the hippocampus in corvids: amount and volume are correlated. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 248, 241-245.
30. Healy, S. D. & Krebs, J. R. 1996 Food storing and the hippocampus in Paridae. Brain Behav. Evol. 47, 195-199.
31. Healy, S. D., Clayton, N. S. & Krebs, J. R. 1994 Development of hippocampal specialisation in two species of tit (Parus spp.). Behav. Brain Res. 61, 23-28.
32. Hitchcock, C. L. & Sherry, D. F. 1990 Long-term memory for cache sites in the black-capped chickadee. Anim. Behav. 40, 701-712.
33. Källander, H. 1978 Hoarding in the rook (Corvus frugilegus). Anser (Suppl. 3), 124-128.
34. Kamil, A. C. & Balda, R. C. 1985 Cache recovery and spatial memory in Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana). J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Processes 11, 95-111.
35. Krebs, J. R., Sherry, D. F., Healy, S. D., Perry, H. & Vaccarino, A. L. 1989 Hippocampal specialization of food-storing birds. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 86, 1388-1392.
36. Krebs, J. R., Clayton, N. S., Hampton, R. R. & Shettleworth, S. J. 1995 Effects of photoperiod on food-storing and the hippocampus in birds. Neuroreport 6, 1701-1704.
37. Macphail, E. M. & Bolhuis, J. J. 2001 The evolution of intelligence: adaptive specializations versus general process. Biol. Rev. 76, 341-364.
38. Maguire, E. A., Gadian, D. G., Johnsrude, I. S., Good, C. D., Ashburner, J., Frackowiak, R. S. J. & Frith, C. D. 2000 Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4398-4403.
39. Marzluff, J. M. & Balda, R. P. 1992 The pinyon jay - behavioral ecology of a colonial and cooperative corvid. London: Poyser.
40. Patel, S. J., Clayton, N. S. & Krebs, J. R. 1997 Spatial learning induces neurogenesis in the avian brain. Behav. Brain Res. 89, 115-128.
41. Pravosudov, V. V. 1985 Search for and storage of food by Parus cinctus lapponicus and P. montanus borealis. Zool. Zh. 64, 1036-1043.
42. Pravosudov, V. V. & Clayton, N. S. 2001 Effects of demanding foraging conditions on cache retrieval accuracy in food-caching mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268, 363-368. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2000.1401.)
43. Pravosudov, V. V. & Clayton, N. C. 2002 A test of the adaptive specialization hypothesis: population differences in caching, memory and the hippocampus in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapilla). Behav. Neurosci. 116, 515-522.
44. Pravosudov, V. V., Lavenex, P. & Clayton, N. C. 2002 Changes in spatial memory mediated by experimental variation in food supply do not affect hippocampal anatomy in mountain chickadees (poecile gambeli). J. Neurobiol. 51, 142-148.
45. Sherry, D. F. 1984 Food storage by Black-capped Chickadees: memory for the location and contents of caches. Anim. Behav. 32, 451-464.
46. Sherry, D. F. 1989 Food storing in the paridae. Wilson Bull. 101, 289-304.
47. Sherry, D. F. & Vaccarino, A. L. 1989 Hippocampus and memory for food caches in black-capped chickadees. Behav. Neurosci. 103, 308-318.
48. Sherry, D. F., Krebs, J. R. & Cowie, R. J. 1981 Memory for the location of stored food in marsh tits. Anim. Behav. 29, 1260-1266.
49. Sherry, D. F., Vaccarino, A. L., Buckenham, K. & Herz, R. S. 1989 The hippocampal complex of food-storing birds. Brain Behav. Evol. 34, 308-317.
50. Shettleworth, S. J. & Krebs, J. R. 1982 How do marsh tits find their hoards: the roles of site preference and spatial memory. J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Processes 8, 354-375.
51. Shettleworth, S. J. & Krebs, J. R. 1986 Stored and encountered seeds: a comparison of two spatial memory tasks in marsh tits and chickadees. J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Processes 12, 248-257.
52. Shettleworth, S. J., Krebs, J. R., Healy, S. D. & Thomas, C. M. 1990 Spatial memory of food-storing tits (Parus ater and P. atricapillus): comparison of storing and nonstoring tasks. J. Comp. Psychol. 104, 71-81.
53. Smulders, T. V., Sasson, A. D. & DeVoogd, T. J. 1995 Seasonal variation in hippocampal volume in a food-storing bird, the Black-Capped Chickadee. J Neurobiol. 27, 15-25.
54. Swanberg, P. O. 1951 Food storage, territory and song in the thick-billed Nutcracker. In Proc. Xth Int. Ornith. Congr., Uppsala, Sweden, 1950 (ed. S. Hörstadius), pp. 545-554.
55. Tomback, D. F. 1980 How nutcrackers find their stores. Condor 82, 10-19.
56. Vander Wall, S. B. 1982 An experimental analysis of cache recovery in Clark's nutcracker. Anim. Behav. 30, 84-94.
57. Vander Wall, S. B. 1990 Food hoarding in animals. University of Chicago Press.
58. Vander Wall, S. B. & Balda, R. P. 1977 Coadaptations of the Clark's nutcracker and the pinon pine for efficient seed harvest and dispersal. Ecol. Monogr. 47, 89-111.
59. Vander Wall, S. B. & Balda, R. P. 1981 Ecology and evolution of food-storage behavior in conifer-seed-caching corvids. Z. Tierpsychol. 56, 217-242.
60. Waite, T. A. & Reeve, J. D. 1992 Gray Jay scatterhoarding behavior, rate maximization, and the effect of local cache density. Ornis Scand. 23, 175-182.