Learning about non-predators and safe places: The forgotten elements of risk assessment

Animal Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-316

  Ferrari, Maud C O ^a,b   Chivers, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Embryonic learning; Habitat learning; Information use; Latent inhibition; Non predator recognition; Predator recognition

Indexed keywords

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FROG; LARVA; LEARNING; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LARVA; LEARNING; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RANIDAE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMBYSTOMA; AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CARASSIUS AURATUS; CYNOPS PYRRHOGASTER; RANA SYLVATICA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; TARICHA RIVULARIS;

EID: 79955065935     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0363-4     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Acquistapace P, Hazlett BA, Gherardi F (2003) Unsuccessful predation and learning of predator cues by crayfish. J Crust Biol 23: 364-370.
2. Bouskila A, Blumstein DT (1992) Rules of thumbs of predation hazard assessment: predictions from a dynamic model. Am Nat 139: 161-176.
3. Brown GE, Chivers DP (2005) Learning as an adaptive response to predation. In: Barbosa P, Castellanos I (eds) Ecology of predator/prey interactions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 34-54.
4. Chivers DP, Mirza RS (2001) The importance of predator-diet cues in the responses of larval woodfrogs to fish and invertebrate predators. J Chem Ecol 27: 45-51.
5. Chivers DP, Smith RJF (1995a) Fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) learn to recognize chemical stimuli from high-risk habitats by the presence of alarm substance. Behav Ecol 6: 155-158.
6. Chivers DP, Smith RJF (1995b) Chemical recognition of risky habitats is culturally transmitted among fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas (Osteichthyes, Cyprinidae). Ethology 99: 286-296.
7. Curio E (1988) Cultural transmission of enemy recognition by birds. In: Zentall TR, Galef BG Jr (eds) Social learning: psychological and biological perspectives. Hillsdale, New Jersey, pp 75-97.
8. Dall SRX, Giraldeau L-A, Olsson O, McNamara JM, Stephens DW (2005) Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology. Trends Ecol Evol 20: 187-193.
9. Ferrari MCO, Chivers DP (2006) The role of latent inhibition in acquired predator recognition by fathead minnows. Can J Zool 84: 505-509.
10. Ferrari MCO, Chivers DP (2009a) Latent inhibition of predator recognition by embryonic amphibians. Biol Lett 5: 160-162.
11. Ferrari MCO, Chivers DP (2009b) Temporal variability, threat-sensitivity and conflicting information about the nature of risk: understanding the dynamics of tadpole antipredator behaviour. Anim Behav 78: 11-16.
12. Ferrari MCO, Chivers DP (2009c) Sophisticated early life lessons: generalization of predator recognition by frog embryos. Behav Ecol 20: 1295-1298.
13. Ferrari MCO, Kapitania-Kwok T, Chivers DP (2006) The role of learning in the development of threat-sensitive predator avoidance: the use of predator cue concentration by fathead minnows. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 60: 522-527.
14. Ferrari MCO, Gonzalo A, Messier F, Chivers DP (2007) Generalization of learned predator recognition: an experimental test and framework for future studies. Proc R Soc B 274: 1853-1859.
15. Ferrari MCO, Wisenden BD, Chivers DP (2010) Chemical ecology of predator-prey interactions in aquatic ecosystems: a review and prospectus. Can J Zool 88: 698-724.
16. Foster KR, Kokko H (2009) The evolution of superstitious and superstition-like behaviour. Proc R Soc B 276: 31-37.
17. Galef BJ Jr, Laland KN (2005) Social learning in animals: empirical studies and theoretical models. Bioscience 55: 489-499.
18. Gosner KL (1960) A simplified table for staging anuran embryos and larvae with notes on identification. Herpetologica 16: 183-190.
19. Griffin AS (2004) Social learning about predators: a review and prospectus. Learn Behav 32: 131-140.
20. Griffin AS, Evans CS, Blumstein DT (2001) Learning specificity in acquired predator recognition. Anim Behav 62: 577-589.
21. Halverson MA, Skelly DK, Caccone A (2006) Inbreeding linked to amphibian survival in the wild but not in the laboratory. J Hered 97: 499-507.
22. Hazlett BA (2003) Predator recognition and learned irrelevance in the crayfish Orconectes virilis. Ethology 109: 765-780.
23. Lima SL (1998) Nonlethal effects in the ecology of predator-prey interactions-what are the ecological effects of anti-predator decision-making? Bioscience 48: 25-34.
24. Lima SL, Dill LM (1990) Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus. Can J Zool 68: 619-640.
25. Mathis A, Chivers DP, Smith RJF (1996) Cultural transmission of predator recognition in fishes: intraspecific and interspecific learning. Anim Behav 51: 185-201.
26. Mathis A, Ferrari MCO, Windel N, Messier F, Chivers DP (2008) Learning by embryos and the ghost of predation future. Proc R Soc B 275: 2603-2607.
27. Mirza RS, Chivers DP (2000) Predator-training enhances survival of brook trout: evidence from laboratory and field enclosure studies. Can J Zool 78: 2198-2208.
28. Mirza RS, Ferrari MCO, Kiesecker JM, Chivers DP (2006) Responses of American toad tadpoles to predation cues: behavioural response thresholds, threat-sensitivity and acquired predation recognition. Behaviour 143: 887-889.
29. Moore RD, Newton B, Sih A (1996) Delayed hatching as a response of streamside salamander eggs to chemical cues from predatory sunfish. Oikos 77: 331-335.
30. Rochette R, Arsenault DJ, Justome B, Himmelman JH (1998) Chemically-mediated predator-recognition learning in a marine gastropod. Ecoscience 5: 353-360.
31. Sih A (1992) Prey uncertainty and the balancing of antipredator and feeding needs. Am Nat 139: 1052-1069.
32. Smith DC (1987) Adult recruitment in chorus frogs: effects of size and date at metamorphosis. Ecology 68: 344-350.
33. Stankowich T, Coss RG (2007) The re-emergence of felid camouflage with the decay of predator recognition in deer under relaxed selection. Proc R Soc B 274: 175-182.
34. Wisenden BD, Harter KR (2001) Motion, not shape, facilitates association of predation risk with novel objects by fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Ethology 107: 357-364.
35. Wisenden BD, Millard MC (2001) Aquatic flatworms use chemical cues from injured conspecifics to assess predation risk and to associate risk with novel cues. Anim Behav 62: 761-766.
36. Wisenden BD, Chivers DP, Smith RJF (1997) Learned recognition of predation risk by Enallagma damselfly larvae (Odonata, Zygoptera) on the basis of chemical cues. J Chem Ecol 23: 137-151.
37. Woody DR, Mathis A (1998) Acquired recognition of chemical stimuli from an unfamiliar predator: associative learning by adult newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. Copeia 1998: 1027-1031.