Foraging in a complex naturalistic environment: Capacity of spatial working memory in flower bats

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 539-548

  Winter, York ^a,b   Stich, Kai Petra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bats; Cognition; Foraging; Orientation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTATION; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARENA; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 14644424679     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01416     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Armstrong, D. P., Gass, C. L. and Sutherland, G. D. (1987). Should foragers remember where they've been? Explorations of a simulation model based on the behavior and energetics of territorial hummingbirds. In Foraging Behavior (ed. A. C. Kamil, J. R. Krebs and H. P. Pulliam), pp. 563-586. New York: Plenum.
2. Baker, H. G. and Baker, I. (1990). The predictive value of nectar chemistry to the recognition of pollinator types. Israel J. Bot. 39, 157-166.
3. Baron, G., Stephan, H. and Frahm, H. (1996). Comparative Neurobiology in Chiroptera Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag.
4. Bolten, A. B., Feinsinger, P., Baker, H. G. and Baker, I. (1979). On the calculation of sugar concentration in flower nectar. Oecologia 41, 301-304.
5. Brown, G. S. (1994). Spatial association learning by rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus): effects of relative spacing among stimuli. J. Comp. Psychol. 108, 29-35.
6. Cole, S., Hainsworth, F. R., Kamil, A. C., Mercier, T. and Wolf, L. L. (1982). Spatial learning as an adaptation in hummingbirds. Science 217, 655-657.
7. Eichenbaum, H. and Cohen, N. J. (2001). From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory Systems of the Brain pp. 1-600. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Fry, S. N., Bichsel, M., Muller, P. and Robert, D. (2000). Tracking of flying insects using pan-tilt cameras. J. Neurosci. Meth. 101, 59-67.
9. Gallistel, C. R. and Cramer, A. E. (1996). Computations on metric maps in mammals: getting oriented and choosing a multi-destination route. J. Exp. Biol. 199, 211-217.
10. Gass, C. L. (1977). A digital encoder for field recording of behavioral, temporal and spatial information in directly computer-accessible form. Behav. Res. Meth. Instr. 9, 5-11.
11. Gass, C. L. (1978). Experimental studies of foraging in complex laboratory environments. Am. Zool. 18, 729-738.
12. Gerhardt, A., Carlsson, A., Ressemann, C. and Stich, K. P. (1998). New online biomonitoring system for Gammarus pulex (L.) (Crustacea): in situ test below a copper effluent in south Sweden. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32, 150-156.
13. Hagstrum, D. W., Flinn, P. W. and Shuman, D. (1996). Automated monitoring using acoustical sensors for insects in farm-stored wheat. J. Econ. Entomol. 89, 211-217.
14. Helversen, D. v. and Helversen, O. v. (2003). Object recognition by echolocation: a nectar-feeding bat exploiting the flowers of a rain forest vine. J. Comp. Physiol. A 189, 327-336.
15. Helversen, O. v. (1993). Adaptations of flowers to the pollination by glossophagine bats. In Animal-Plant Interactions in Tropical Environments (ISBN 3-925382-36-4) (ed. W. Barthlott), pp. 41-59. Bonn: Museum Koenig.
16. Helversen, O. v. and Winter, Y. (2003). Glossophagine bats and their flowers: cost and benefit for plant and pollinator. In Ecology of Bats (ed. T. H. Kunz and M. B. Fenton), pp. 346-397. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
17. Janson, C. H. (1998). Experimental evidence for spatial memory in foraging wild capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella. An. Behav. 55, 1229-1243.
18. Jeffery, K. J. (2003). The Neurobiology of Spatial Behaviour pp. 1-316. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Kao, S. D., Shaw, F. Z., Young, M. S. and Jan, G. J. (1995). A new automated method for detection and recording of animal moving path. J. Neurosci. Meth. 63, 205-209.
20. Mauck, B. and Dehnhardt, G. (1997). Mental rotation in a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). J. Exp. Biol. 200, 1309-1316.
21. Olton, D. S. (1977). Spatial memory. Sci. Am. 236, 82-98.
22. Olton, D. S. and Samuelson, R. J. (1976). Remembrances of places past: spatial memory in rats. J. Exp. Psychol. An. Behav. Processes 2, 97-116.
23. Redish, D. A. (1999). Beyond the cognitive map: from place cells to episodic memory pp. 1-420. Cambridge: MIT Press.
24. Roberts, W. A. (1979). Spatial memory in the rat on a hierarchical maze. Learn. Motiv. 10, 117-140.
25. Roberts, W. A. (1984). Some issues in animal spatial memory. In Animal Cognition (ed. H. L. Roitblat, T. Bever and H. Terrace), pp. 425-443. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
26. Shettleworth, S. J. and Krebs, J. R. (1982). How marsh tits find their hoards: the roles of site preference and spatial memory. J. Exp. Psycho. An. Behav. Processes 8, 354-375.
27. Shettleworth, S. J. (1998). Cognition, Evolution and Behavior New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
28. Sutherland, G. (1986). The role of spatial pattern learning in hummingbird foraging. Master's Thesis. University of British Columbia.
29. Sutherland, G. D. and Gass, C. L. (1995). Learning and remembering of spatial patterns by hummingbirds. Anim. Behav. 50, 1273-1286.
30. Taylor, P. E., Haskell, M., Appleby, M. C. and Waran, N. K. (2002). Perception of time duration by domestic hens. Appl. An. Behav. Sci. 76, 41-51.
31. Thiele, H. and Winter, Y. (2004). Hierarchical strategy for relocation of food targets in flower bats: spatial memory versus cue-directed search. An. Behav. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.05.012.
32. Trullier, O., Wiener, S. I., Berthoz, A. and Meyer, J. A. (1997). Biologically based artificial navigation systems: Review and prospects. Prog. Neurobiol. 51, 483-544.
33. Tsibulsky, V. L. and O'gower, A. (2002). An automated method for measuring the cocaine priming threshold. Drug Alcohol Depend. 66, 202.
34. Wang, R. F. and Spelke, E. S. (2002). Human spatial representation: Insights from animals. Trends Cog. Sci. 6, 376-382.
35. Winter, Y. and Helversen, O. v. (2001). Bats as pollinators: foraging energetics and floral adaptations. In Cognitive Ecology of Pollination (ed. L. Chittka and J. D. Thomson), pp. 148-170. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
36. Young, M. S., Li, Y. C. and Lin, M. T. (1993). A modularized infrared light matrix system with high-resolution for measuring animal behaviors. Physiol. Behav. 53, 545-551.