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CATEGORIES:Madingley Lunchtime Seminars
SUMMARY:“Cognition in nest construction in birds?” - Felic
 ity Muth (School of Biology\, University of St And
 rews)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120516T123000
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UID:TALK37920AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/37920
DESCRIPTION:Nest building is widespread across bird species. A
 lthough it has generally been assumed to be unaffe
 cted by learning\, this has rarely been tested. He
 re I present experiments investigating what role l
 earning may play in nest building behaviour in zeb
 ra finches\, in both adults and young birds. I als
 o present results from an experiment addressing wh
 ether birds were able to select material appropria
 te for a nest building 'task'\, using a similar de
 sign to that used in some experiments on tool-use 
 in animals. Taken together\, my results show evide
 nce for a role of cognition in nest building: expe
 rience changes zebra finches’ preferences for nest
  materials and they are also able to select materi
 als appropriate to the conditions under which they
  are building.  There appears to be at least some 
 similarity between these results and the data on t
 ool use.
LOCATION:Library\, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour\, Mad
 ingley
CONTACT:Diane Pearce
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