The effect of habitat health and environmental change on cultural diversity and richness in animals DOI Creative Commons

Sofia Bolcato,

Lucy M. Aplin

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 380(1925)

Published: May 1, 2025

There is increasing evidence that habitat decline via fragmentation or species loss can lead to of cultural diversity, complexity richness in non-human animals. For example, a reduction local bird leads lyrebirds sing fewer complex songs, while great apes living fragmented landscapes have smaller repertoires. However, the link between animal culture and ecology remains understudied, potentially interactions ongoing ecological change are poorly understood. Here, we review current state knowledge on how influences culture, focusing vocal communication foraging behaviour. We identify key factors affecting patterning, including direct effects (e.g. environmental variability) indirect connectivity). then emerging for identifying three major threatening processes: fragmentation, degradation urbanization. Finally, develop predictive framework effect these processes highlight diversity fitness costs with conservation implications.This article part theme issue 'Animal culture: changing world'.

Language: Английский

The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species DOI Creative Commons
Lisa P. Barrett, Lauren A. Stanton, Sarah Benson‐Amram

et al.

Animal Behaviour, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 147, P. 167 - 177

Published: May 30, 2018

Language: Английский

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Decreased vigilance or habituation to humans? Mechanisms on increased boldness in urban animals DOI
Kenta Uchida, Kei Suzuki, Tatsuki Shimamoto

et al.

Behavioral Ecology, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 30(6), P. 1583 - 1590

Published: June 30, 2019

Abstract Increased boldness is one of the most prevalent behavioral modifications seen in urban animals and thought to be a coping response anthropogenic environmental alterations. Most previous studies have shown enhanced manifested as changes responses humans approaching, such reductions flight initiation distance (FID). However, this includes two confounding factors related “boldness,” that is, reduction vigilance habituation humans. Confounding these totally different processes could lead our misunderstanding adaptation how properly manage wildlife. Here, we propose simple framework separate using measures toward approaching threats. We considered at which targeted individuals noticed an object (i.e., alert distance, AD) was vigilance, whereas FID represented risk assessment, habituation. applied predictive AD Eurasian red squirrels’ multiple threats levels humans, model predators, novel objects). shorter compared with rural ones but not among objects. also varied objects shortest showed similar These results suggest that, although reduced they still assess levels. Our can easily many significantly improve understanding wild animals’ adaptations environments.

Language: Английский

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87
Animal Cognition in an Urbanised World DOI Creative Commons
Victoria E. Lee, Alex Thornton

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: March 4, 2021

Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present with novel problems that differ from those encountered in their past. To navigate these rapidly changing habitats successfully, may need adjust behaviour flexibly over relatively short timescales. These behavioural changes, turn, be facilitated by ability acquire, store, and process information the environment. The question of cognitive abilities allow avoid threats exploit resources (or constrain do so) attracting increasing research interest, growing number studies investigating differences between urban-dwelling non-urban counterparts. In this review we consider why such might arise, focusing on informational challenges faced living urban environments, different can assist overcoming challenges. We focus largely birds, as avian taxa have been subject most date, but discuss work other species where relevant. also address potential consequences variation at individual level. For instance, select for, or influence development of, particular abilities? Are individuals phenotypes more likely become established habitats? How factors, social personality, interact cognition environments? aim synthesise current knowledge identify key avenues future research, order improve our understanding ecological urbanisation.

Language: Английский

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Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot DOI
Barbara C. Klump, John M. Martin, Sonja Wild

et al.

Science, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 373(6553), P. 456 - 460

Published: July 22, 2021

Birds in the bin It is by now well accepted that humans are not only animal to have complex culture, and we also found ecological novelty can lead cultural innovation. Klump et al. documented emergence of an evolving set behaviors response human-generated resources, specifically garbage bins, sulphur-crested cockatoos. This finding both documents existence spread foraging culture among parrots, a lineage known for high-level cognitive function, illuminates how innovation regional distinct variations. Science , abe7808, this issue p. 456

Language: Английский

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Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review DOI Creative Commons

Swaroop Patankar,

Ravi Jambhekar, Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

et al.

Land, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 10(2), P. 92 - 92

Published: Jan. 20, 2021

Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as well-studied taxon of interest, in order review literature traits that influence responses urbanization. 226 papers were published between 1979 and 2020, aggregate information five groups have been widely studied: ecological traits, life history, physiology, behavior genetic traits. Some robust findings trait changes individual species well bird communities emerge. A lack specific food shelter resources has led the urban community being dominated by generalist species, while specialist show decline. Urbanized differ behavioral showing an increase song frequency amplitude, bolder behavior, compared rural populations same species. Differential predatory pressure results history including prolonged breeding duration, increases clutch brood size compensate for lower survival. Other species-specific include hormonal state, body differences from populations. identify gaps research, with paucity studies tropical cities need greater examination persistence success native vs. introduced

Language: Английский

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A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence DOI Creative Commons
Sofia Forss, Alejandra Ciria, Fay E. Clark

et al.

Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 99(3), P. 979 - 998

Published: Jan. 29, 2024

ABSTRACT Curiosity is a core driver for life‐long learning, problem‐solving and decision‐making. In broad sense, curiosity defined as the intrinsically motivated acquisition of novel information. Despite decades‐long history research earliest human theories arising from studies laboratory rodents, has mainly been considered in two camps: ‘linguistic human’ ‘other’. This despite psychology being heritable, there are many continuities cognitive capacities across animal kingdom. Boundary‐pushing cross‐disciplinary debates on lacking, relative exclusion pre‐linguistic infants non‐human animals led to scientific impasse which more broadly impedes development artificially intelligent systems modelled natural agents. this review, we synthesize literature multiple disciplines that have studied non‐verbal systems. By highlighting how similar findings produced separate behaviour, developmental psychology, neuroscience, computational cognition, discuss can be used advance our understanding curiosity. We propose, first time, features could quantified therefore operationally systems: different species, stages, or artificial

Language: Английский

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Brain Size and Life History Interact to Predict Urban Tolerance in Birds DOI Creative Commons
Ferran Sayol, Daniel Sol, Alex L. Pigot

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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: March 25, 2020

Urbanization is a major driver of local biodiversity losses, but the traits that determine whether species are able to tolerate urban environments remain poorly understood. Theory suggests larger brain should provide higher tolerance urbanization by enhancing behavioral flexibility cope with novel challenges. However, assembling empirical evidence for link between size and has proven be difficult, perhaps because effect interacts life history influence persistence in environments. Here, we global-scale assessment role on tolerance, combining quantitative estimations detailed information size, ecology 629 avian across 27 cities. Our analysis confirms expected positive association shows relationship more complex than previously shown. While large relative generally increases small brains can still attain high success if they spread risk reproduction multiple events (i.e. have low brood value). These alternative strategies, although uncommon natural conditions, seem favored environments, fundamentally restructuring composition communities. Thus, our results support notion mediates urbanization, also there ways exploiting findings reconcile previous conflicting regarding basis improved predictions responses organisms increasing over coming decades.

Language: Английский

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Socio-ecological correlates of neophobia in corvids DOI Creative Commons
Rachael Miller, Megan L. Lambert, Anna Frohnwieser

et al.

Current Biology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 32(1), P. 74 - 85.e4

Published: Nov. 17, 2021

Language: Английский

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Innovation and decreased neophobia drive invasion success in a widespread avian invader DOI
Tali Magory Cohen,

R. Suresh Kumar,

Manoj V. Nair

et al.

Animal Behaviour, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 163, P. 61 - 72

Published: March 29, 2020

Language: Английский

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Behavioral Causes, Ecological Consequences, and Management Challenges Associated with Wildlife Foraging in Human-Modified Landscapes DOI Creative Commons
Gaëlle Fehlmann, M. Justin O’Riain, Ines Fürtbauer

et al.

BioScience, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 2, 2020

Humans have altered up to half of the world's land surface. Wildlife living within or close these human-modified landscapes are presented with opportunities and risks associated feeding on human-derived foods (e.g., agricultural crops food waste). Understanding whether how wildlife adapts is a major challenge, thousands studies published topic over past 10 years. In present article, we build established theoretical frameworks understand behavioral causes crop urban foraging by wildlife. We then develop extend this framework describe multifaceted ecological consequences for individuals populations in which they arise, emphasis social species interactions people are, balance, negative (commonly referred as raiding species). Finally, discuss management challenges faced rural managers, businesses, government organizations mitigating human-wildlife conflicts propose ways improve lives both humans promote coexistence.

Language: Английский

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