Noisy miners plan ahead: Cryptic signalling of reward location impairs search for nectar, but not for invertebrates

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 102, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-155

  Sulikowski, Danielle ^a   Burke, Darren ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Foraging; Invertebrates; Nectar; Route planning; Travelling salesman problem

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CRYPSIS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INVERTEBRATE; NECTAR; PASSERINE;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MANORINA MELANOCEPHALA; MELIPHAGIDAE;

EID: 84922699969     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Arora S. Polynomial time approximation schemes for Euclidean traveling salesman and other geometric problems. Journal of the ACM 1998, 45:753-782.
2. Burke D., Fulham B.J. An evolved spatial memory bias in a nectar-feeding bird?. Animal Behaviour 2003, 66:695-701.
3. Clayton N.S., Dickinson A. Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays. Nature 1998, 395:272-274.
4. Cole S., Hainsworth F.R., Kamil A.C., Mercier T., Wolf L.L. Spatial learning as an adaptation in hummingbirds. Science 1982, 217:655-657.
5. Collins B.G., Briffa P. Seasonal and diurnal variations in the energetics and foraging activities of the brown honey eater, Lichmera indistincta. Australian Journal of Ecology 1983, 8:103-111.
6. Collins B.G., Newland C., Briffa P. Nectar utilization and pollination by Australian honeyeaters and insects visiting Calothamnus quadrifidus (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Ecology 1984, 9:353-365.
7. Demas G.E., Brown M.F. Honey bees are predisposed to win-shift but can learn to win-stay. Animal Behaviour 1995, 50:1041-1045.
8. Dorigo M., Gambardella L.M. Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem. BioSystems 1997, 43:73-82.
9. Garrison J.S.E., Gass C.L. Response of a traplining hummingbird to changes in nectar availability. Behavioral Ecology 1999, 10:714-725.
10. Gill F.B. Trapline foraging by Hermit Hummingbirds: competition for an undefended, renewable resource. Ecology 1988, 69:1933-1942.
11. Hassabis D., Kumaran D., Vann S.D., Maguire E.A. Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104:1726-1731.
12. Healy S.D., Hurly T.A. Spatial memory in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus): a field test. Animal Learning and Behavior 1995, 23:63-68.
13. Henderson J., Hurly T.A., Bateson M., Healy S.D. Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus. Current Biology 2006, 16:512-515.
14. Janson C.H. Experimental evidence for route integration and strategic planning in wild capuchin monkeys. Animal Cognition 2007, 10:341-356.
15. Janson C.H. Death of the (traveling) salesman: primates do not show clear evidence of multi-step route planning. American Journal of Primatology 2014, 76:410-420.
16. Jelbert S.A., Hurly T.A., Marshall R.E.S., Healy S.D. Wild, free-living hummingbirds can learn what happened, where and in which context. Animal Behaviour 2014, 89:185-189.
17. Kamil A.C. Systematic foraging by a nectar-feeding bird, the amakihi (Loxops virens). Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 1978, 92:388-396.
18. Klein S.B., Loftus J. Memory and temporal experience: the effects of episodic memory loss on an amnesic patient's ability to remember the past and imagine the future. Social Cognition 2002, 20:353-379.
19. Lihoreau M., Chittka L., Raine N.E. Travel optimization by foraging bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations. The American Naturalist 2010, 176:744-757.
20. Lihoreau M., Raine N.E., Reynolds A.M., Stelzer R.J., Lim K.S., Smith A.D., et al. Radar tracking and motion-sensitive cameras on flowers reveal the development of pollinator multi-destination routes over large spatial scales. PLoS Biology 2012, 10(9):e1001392.
21. Naqshbandi M., Roberts W.A. Anticipation of future events in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) and rats (Rattus norvegicus): tests of the Bischof-Kohler hypothesis. Journal of Comparative Psychology 2006, 120:345-357.
22. Okuda J., Fujii T., Ohtake H., Tsukiura T., Tanji K., Suzuki K., et al. Thinking of the future and the past: the roles of the frontal pole and the medial temporal lobes. NeuroImage 2003, 19:1369-1380.
23. Osvath M., Osvath H. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and orangutan (Pongo abelii) forethought: self-control and pre-experience in the face of future tool use. Animal Cognition 2008, 11:661-674.
24. Ouaarab A., Ahiod B., Yang X.S. Discrete cuckoo search algorithm for the travelling salesman problem. Neural Computation and Applications 2014, 24:1659-1669.
25. Papadimitriou C.H. The Euclidean travelling salesman problem is NP-complete. Theoretical Computer Science 1977, 4:237-244.
26. Pastalkova E., Itskov V., Amarasingham A., Buzsáki G. Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus. Science 2008, 321:1322-1327.
27. Pyke G.H. The foraging behaviour of Australian honeyeaters: a review and some comparisons with hummingbirds. Australian Journal of Ecology 1980, 5:343-369.
28. Pyke G.H. Optimal foraging in hummingbirds: rule of movement between inflorescences. Animal Behaviour 1981, 29:889-896.
29. Pyke G.H. Optimal foraging theory: a critical review. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1984, 15:523-575.
30. Raby C.R., Clayton N.S. Prospective cognition in animals. Behavioural Processes 2009, 80:314-324.
31. Raby C.R., Dickinson A., Clayton N.S. Planning for the future by western scrub-jays. Nature 2007, 445:919-921.
32. Rattenborg N.C., Martinez-Gonzalez D. Episodic-like memory and divergent brain systems in mammals and birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110:E3741.
33. Reynolds A.M., Lihoreau M., Chittka L. Asimple iterative model accurately captures complex trapline formation by bumblebees across spatial scales and flower arrangements. PLoS Computational Biology 2013, 9(3):e1002938.
34. Robinson S.K., Holmes R.T. Foraging behavior of forest birds: the relationships among search tactics, diet and habitat structure. Ecology 1982, 63:1918-1931.
35. Salwiczek L.H., Watanabe A., Clayton N.S. Ten years of research into avian models of episodic-like memory and its implications for developmental and comparative cognition. Behavioural Brain Research 2010, 215:221-234.
36. Schacter D.L., Addis D.R. The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 2007, 362:773-786.
37. Schacter D.L., Addis D.R., Buckner R.L. Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2007, 8:657-661.
38. Smith J.N.M. Food searching behaviour of two European thrushes. II: the adaptiveness of the search patterns. Behaviour 1974, 49:1-61.
39. Suddendorf T., Corballis M.C. Behavioural evidence for mental time travel in nonhuman animals. Behavioural Brain Research 2010, 215:292-298.
40. Sulikowski D., Burke D. Food-specific spatial memory biases in an omnivorous bird. Biology Letters 2007, 3:245-248.
41. Sulikowski D., Burke D. Reward type influences performance and search structure of an omnivorous bird in an open-field maze. Behavioural Processes 2010, 83:31-35.
42. Sulikowski D., Burke D. When a place is not a place: encoding of spatial information is dependent on reward type. Behaviour 2010, 147:1461-1479.
43. Sulikowski D., Burke D. Win-shift and win-stay learning in the rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus haemotodus). Journal of Comparative Psychology 2011, 125:143-149.
44. Sulikowski D., Burke D. Movement and memory: different cognitive strategies are used to search for resources with different natural distributions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2011, 65:621-631.
45. Sulikowski D., Burke D. Win-shifting in nectarivorous birds: selective inhibition of the learned win-stay response. Animal Behaviour 2012, 83:519-524.
46. Szpunar K.K., Watson J.M., McDermott K.B. Neural substrates of envisioning the future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007, 104:642-647.
47. Timewell C.A.R., Mac Nally R. Diurnal foraging-mode shifts and food availability in nectarivore assemblages during winter. Austral Ecology 2004, 29:264-277.
48. Visalberghi E., Spagnoletti N., da Silva E.D.R., Andrade F.R., Ottoni E., Izar P., et al. Distribution of potential suitable hammers and transport of hammer tools and nuts by wild capuchin monkeys. Primates 2009, 50:95-104.
49. de Waal F.B.M., Ferrari P.F. Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2010, 14:201-207.
50. Williams J.M.G., Ellis N.C., Tyers C., Healy H. The specificity of autobiographical memory and imageability of the future. Memory & Cognition 1996, 24:116-125.
51. Wunderle J.M., Martinez J.S. Spatial-learning in the nectarivorous bananaquit: juveniles versus adults. Animal Behaviour 1987, 35:652-658.
52. Yang X.S., Deb S. Engineering optimisation by cuckoo search. International Journal of Mathematical Modelling of Numerical Optimisation 2010, 1:330-343.