I know my neighbour: Individual recognition in octopus vulgaris

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Tricarico, Elena ^a   Borrelli, Luciana ^b   Gherardi, Francesca ^a   Fiorito, Graziano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; OCTUPUS VULGARIS; RECOGNITION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEPHALOPODA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; OCTOPODIFORMES;

EID: 79954577298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018710     Document Type: Article

References (85)

1. Barrows EM, Bell WJ, Michener CD, (1975) Individual odor differences and their social functions in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 72: 2824-2828.
2. Brooks RJ, Falls JB, (1975) Individual recognition by song in white-throated sparrows. 1. Discrimination of songs of neighbors and strangers. Canadian Journal of Zoology 53: 879-888.
3. Barnard CJ, Burk T, (1979) Dominance hierarchies and the evolution of "individual recognition". Journal of Theoretical. Biology 81: 65-73.
4. Falls JB, (1982) Individual recognition by sound in birds. In: Kroodsma DE, Miller EH, editors. Acoustic Communication in Birds. Vol. 2, Song Learning and its Consequences New York, USA Academic Press pp. 237-278.
5. Halpin ZT, (1986) Individual odors among mammals: origins and functions. Advances in the Study of Behavior 16: 39-70.
6. Sherman PW, Reeve HK, Pfennig DW, (1997) Recognition systems. In: Krebs JR, Davies NB, editors. Behavioural Ecology: an Evolutionary Approach Oxford, UK Blackwell Science pp. 69-96.
7. Steiger S, Müller JK, (2008) 'True' and 'untrue' individual recognition: suggestion of a less restrictive definition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 355.
8. Tibbetts EA, Sheehan MJ, Dale J, (2008) A testable definition of individual recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 356.
9. Beecher MD, (1989) Signalling systems for individual recognition: an information theory approach. Animal Behaviour 38: 248-261.
10. Tibbetts E, Dale J, (2007) Individual recognition: it is good to be different. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 529-537.
11. Mateo J, (2004) Recognition systems and biological organization: the perception component of social recognition. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 729-745.
12. Proops L, McComb K, Reby D, (2009) Cross-modal individual recognition in domestic horses (Equus caballus). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 106: 947-951.
13. D'Ettorre P, Heinze J, (2005) Individual recognition in ant queens. Current Biology 15: 2170-2174.
14. Tibbetts EA, (2002) Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269: 1423-1428.
15. Atema J, Steinbach MA, (2007) Chemical communication and social behavior of the lobster, Homarus americanus, and other Decapod Crustacea. In: Duffy JE, Thiel M, editors. Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms New York, USA Oxford University Press pp. 115-144.
16. Detto T, Backwell PRY, Hemmi JM, Zeil J, (2006) Visually mediated species and neighbour recognition in fiddler crabs (Uca mjoebergi and Uca capricornis). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 273: 1661-1666.
17. Gherardi F, Tricarico E, (2007) Can hermit crabs recognize social partners by odors? And why? Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 40: 201-212.
18. Van der Velden J, Zheng Y, Patullo BW, Macmillan DL, (2008) Crayfish Recognize the Faces of Fight Opponents. PLoS ONE 3: e1695 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001695.
19. Aquiloni A, Gherardi F, (2010) Crayfish females eavesdrop on fighting males and use smell and sight to recognize the identity of the winner. Animal Behaviour 79: 265-269.
20. Archawaranon M, Dove L, Wiley RH, (1991) Social inertia and hormonal control of aggression and dominance in white-throated sparrows. Behaviour 118: 42-64.
21. Boal JG, (1996) Absence of social recognition in laboratory-reared cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis L. (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Animal Behaviour 44: 547-555.
22. Gherardi F, Tiedemann J, (2004) Binary individual recognition in hermit crabs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 524-530.
23. Shomrat T, Zarrella I, Fiorito G, Hochner B, (2008) The octopus vertical lobe modulates short-term learning rate and uses LTP to acquire long-term memory. Current Biology 18: 337-342.
24. Borrelli L, Fiorito G, (2008) Behavioral analysis of learning and memory in Cephalopods. In: Menzel R, Byrne J, editors. Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference UK Elsevier pp. 605-627.
25. Young JZ, (1991) Computation in the learning system of cephalopods. Biological Bulletin 180: 200-208.
26. Finn JK, Tregenza T, Norman MD, (2009) Defensive tool use in a coconut carrying octopus. Current Biology 19: 1069-1070.
27. Edelman DB, Seth AK, (2009) Animal consciousness: a synthetic approach. TINS 32: 476-484.
28. Mather JA, (2008) Cephalopod consciousness: behavioural evidence. Consciousness and Cognition 17: 37-48.
29. Boal J, (2006) Social recognition: a top down view of Cephalopod behaviour. Vie et Milieu 56: 69-79.
30. Mather JA, Anderson RC, (1993) Personalities of octopuses (Octopus rubescens). Journal of Comparative Psychology 107: 336-340.
31. Fiorito G, vonPlanta C, Scotto P, (1990) Problem solving ability of Octopus vulgaris. Behavioral and Neural Biology 53: 217-230.
32. Fiorito G, Scotto P, (1992) Observational learning in Octopus vulgaris. Science 256: 545-547.
33. Moriyama T, Gunji YP, (1997) Autonomous learning in maze solution by Octopus. Ethology 103: 499-513.
34. Sumbre G, Fiorito G, Flash T, Hochner B, (2005) Motor control of flexible octopus arms. Nature 433: 595-596.
35. Sumbre G, Fiorito G, Flash T, Hochner B, (2006) Octopuses use a human-like strategy to control precise point-to-point arm movements. Current Biology 16: 767-772.
36. Hochner B, (2008) Octopuses. Current Biology 18: 897-898.
37. Anderson RC, Mather JA, Monette MQ, Zimsen SRM, (2010) Octopuses (Enteroctopus dofleini) recognize individual humans. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 13: 261-272.
38. Kuba MJ, Byrne RA, Meisel DV, Mather JA, (2006) When do octopuses play? Effects of repeated testing, object type, age, and food deprivation on object play in Octopus vulgaris. Journal of Comparative Psychology 120: 184-90.
39. Mather JA, Anderson RC, (1999) Exploration, play and habituation in octopuses (Octopus dofleini). Journal of Comparative Psychology 113: 333-338.
40. Borrelli L, Fiorito G, Gherardi F, (2006) A catalogue of body pattering in Cephalopoda. Firenze, Italy Firenze University Press.
41. Mather J, (1985) Behavioural interactions and captivity of captive Eledone moschata: laboratory investigations of "social" octopus. Animal Behaviour 33: 1138-1144.
42. Boyle PR, (1980) Home occupancy by male Octopus vulgaris in a large seawater tank. Animal Behaviour 28: 1123-1126.
43. Hanlon RT, Chiao C-C, Mäthger LM, Barbosa A, Buresch KC, et al. (2009) Cephalopod dynamic camouflage: bridging the continuum between background matching and disruptive coloration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 429-437.
44. Barbato M, Bernard M, Borrelli L, Fiorito G, (2007) Body patterns in cephalopods "Polyphenism" as a way of information exchange. Pattern Recognition Letters 28: 1854-1864.
45. Wilson EO, (1975) Sociobiology. Cambridge, Massachussetts, and London, England The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
46. Huffard CL, (2007) Ethogram of Abdopus aculeatus (D'Orbugny, 1834) (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae): can behavioural characters inform octopodid taxonomy and systematics? Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 185-193.
47. Kayes RJ, (1974) The daily activity pattern of Octopus vulgaris in a natural habitat. Marine Behaviour and Physiology 2: 337-343.
48. Fisher JB, (1954) Evolution and bird sociality. In: Huxley J, Hardy AC, Ford EB, editors. Evolution as a process London, UK Allen & Unwin pp. 71-83.
49. Booksmythe I, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY, (2010) Investigating the 'dear enemy' phenomenon in the territory defence of the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi. Animal Behaviour 79: 419-423.
50. Temeles EJ, (1994) The role of neighbours in territorial systems: when are they "dear enemies"? Animal Behaviour 47: 339-350.
51. Jaeger RG, (1981) Dear enemy recognition and the costs of aggression between salamanders. The American Naturalist 117: 962-979.
52. Vannini M, Gherardi F, (1981) Dominance and individual recognition in Potamon fluviatile (Decapoda, Brachyura): possible role of visual cues. Marine Behaviour and Physiology 8: 13-20.
53. Borrelli L, (2007) Testing the contribution of relative brain size and learning capabilities on the evolution of Octopus vulgaris and other cephalopods. PhD Thesis, The Open University London UK and Stazione Zoologica A Dohrn Napoli, Italy.
54. Cigliano JA, (1993) Dominance and den use in Octopus bimaculoides. Animal Behaviour 46: 677-684.
55. McFarland D, eds. (1981) The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour. Oxford, UK Oxford University Press.
56. Gherardi F, Cenni F, Parisi G, Aquiloni L, (2010) Visual recognition of conspecifics in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Animal Behaviour 80: 713-719.
57. Packard A, (1972) Cephalopod and fish: the limits of convergence. Biological Reviews 47: 241-307.
58. Williamson R, Chrachri A, (2004) Cephalopod Neural Networks. Neurosignals 13: 87-98.
59. Hochner B, Shomrat T, Fiorito G, (2006) The octopus: a model for a comparative analysis of the evolution of learning and memory mechanisms. Biological Bulletin 210: 308-217.
60. Mather J, (1991) Navigation by spatial memory and use of visual landmarks in octopuses. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 168: 491-497.
61. Gherardi F, Atema J, (2005) Memory of social partners in hermit crab dominance. Ethology 111: 271-285.
62. Karavanich C, Atema J, (1998) Individual recognition and memory in lobster dominance. Animal Behaviour 56: 1553-1560.
63. Hemsworth R, Villareal W, Patullo BW, MacMillan DL, (2007) Crustacean social behavioral changes in response to isolation. Biological Bulletin 213: 187-195.
64. Wells MJ, (1963) Taste by touch: some experiments with Octopus. Journal of Experimental Biology 40: 187-193.
65. Wells MJ, (1978) Octopus: physiology and behaviour of an advanced invertebrate. London, UK Chapman & Hall.
66. Boal JG, Marsh S, (1998) Social recognition using chimica cues in Sepia officinalis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 230: 783-792.
67. Boal JG, (1997) Female choice of males in cuttlefish (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Behaviour 134: 975-988.
68. Boal JG, Golden DK, (1999) Distance chemoreception in the common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 235: 307-317.
69. Boyle PR, (1983) Ventilation rate and arousal in the octopus. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 69: 129-136.
70. Chase R, Wells MJ, (1986) Chemotactic behavior in Octopus. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 158: 375-381.
71. Anderson RC, Mather JA, (2010) It's all in the cues: octopuses (Enteroctopus dofleini) learn to open jars. Ferrantia 59: 8-13.
72. Tobach E, Gold P, Ziegler A, (1965) Preliminary observations of the inking behavior of Aplysia (Varria). Veliger 8: 16-18.
73. Packard A, (1988) Visual tactics and evolutionary strategies. In: WiedmannKullmann JJ, editors. Cephalopods Present and Past. Second International Cephalopod Symposium Tübingen. Stuttgart, Germany E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung pp. 89-103.
74. Wood JB, Maynard AE, Lawlor AG, Sawyer EK, Simmons DM, Pennoyer KE, Derby CD, (2010) Caribbean reef squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, use ink as a defense against predatory French grunts, Haemulon flavolineatum. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 388: 20-27.
75. Fiorito G, Gherardi F, (1990) Behavioural changes induced by ink in Aplysia fasciata (Mollusca: Gastropoda): evidence for a social signal role of inking. Marine Behaviour and Physiology 17: 129-135.
76. Partan SR, Marler P, (2005) Issues in the classification of multimodal communication signals. The American Naturalist 166: 231-245.
77. Caldwell RL, (1979) Cavity occupation and defensive behaviour in the stomatopod Gonodactylus festae: evidence for chemically mediated individual recognition. Animal Behaviour 27: 294-301.
78. Aquiloni L, Gherardi F, (2008) Assessing mate size in the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii: effects of visual versus chemical stimuli. Freshwater Biology 53: 461-469.
79. Aquiloni L, Massolo A, Gherardi F, (2009) Sex identification in female crayfish is bimodal. Naturwissenschaften 96: 103-110.
80. Scheffer SJ, Uetz GW, Stratton GE, (1996) Sexual selection, male morphology, and the efficacy of courtship signalling in two wolf spiders (Aranae: Lycosidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38: 17-23.
81. Rowe C, Guilford T, (1999) Novelty in a multimodal warning signal. Animal Behaviour 57: 341-346.
82. Guilford T, Dawkins MS, (1991) Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals. Animal Behaviour 42: 1-14.
83. Rowe C, (1999) Receiver psychology and the evolution of multicomponent signals. Animal Behaviour 58: 921-931.
84. Grimaldi AM, Agnisola C, Fiorito G, (2007) Using ultrasound to estimate brain size in the cephalopod Octopus vulgaris Cuvier in vivo. Brain Research 1183: 66-73.
85. Packard A, Sanders GD, (1971) Body patterns of Octopus vulgaris and maturation of the response of disturbance. Animal Behaviour 19: 780-790.