Cognitive Ecology: Foraging in Hummingbirds as a Model System

摘要: Publisher Summary The chapter presents foraging in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus, as a model system which to assess cognitive abilities, particularly learning and memory, animals the field. value of this is twofold: first, possibly most important, are logistic advantages. logistics testing territorial hummingbirds such that behavior appears offer compromise will irritate both field zoologists laboratory psychologists however may also continue integration between two groups has been seen song learning, imprinting, food storing. second advantage using for investigating cognition birds feed on flowers would seem require memory at least ways: (1) because different species vary color, shape, size, location content, learn their species-specific features; (2) some refill once emptied, do so over course several hours. By have managed, thus far, abilities by arrays spatial scale comparable they faced with everyday foraging. hummingbird be useful make comparison fairly readily kept tested captivity.