A5082773702- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Plant and animal studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Language and cultural evolution
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
Tel Aviv University
2020-2024
Recent studies have emphasized the role of social learning and cultural transmission in promoting conformity uniformity animal groups, but little attention has been given to negative frequency-dependent impeding diversity instead. Here, we show experimentally that under competitive conditions are common nature, foragers (although capable learning) likely develop foraging specialization rather than uniformity. Naive house sparrows were introduced into groups specialists did not conform...
The extent to which animal societies exhibit social conformity as opposed behavioural diversity is commonly attributed adaptive learning strategies. Less attention given the possibility that relative difficulty of a task socially individually can be critical for dynamics. Here we show by raising initial difficulty, house sparrows previously shown become predominantly conformists. used required opening feeding well covers (easier learn socially) and choose with rewarding cues (easy...
We studied how different types of social demonstration improve house sparrows' (Passer domesticus) success in solving a foraging task that requires both operant learning (opening covers) and discrimination (preferring covers the rewarding colour). provided learners with either paired (of cover opening colour preference), action-only white only), or no (a companion bird eating without covers). found sparrows failed to learn two tasks demonstration, learned them best demonstration....