ArticleScientific reports2016
Contagious risk taking: social information and context influence wild jackdaws' responses to novelty and risk.
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- Negative emotional contagion and cognitive bias in common ravens (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Persistence and conspecific observations improve problem-solving abilities of coyotes.PloS one · 2019Article
- Wild jackdaws' reproductive success and their offspring's stress hormones are connected to provisioning rate and brood size, not to parental neophobia.General and comparative endocrinology · 2017Article
- Harnessing learning biases is essential for applying social learning in conservation.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2017Review
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Although wild animals increasingly encounter human-produced food and objects, it is unknown how they learn to discriminate beneficial from dangerous novelty. Since social learning allows animals to capitalize on the risk-taking of others, and avoid endangering themselves, social learning should be used around novel and unpredictable stimuli. However, it is unclear whether animals use social cues equally around all types of novelty and at all times of year. We assessed whether wild, individually marked jackdaws-a highly neophobic, yet adaptable species-are equally influenced by social cues to consume novel, palatable foods and to approach a startling object. We conducted these tests across two seasons, and found that in both seasons observers were more likely to consume novel foods after seeing a demonstrator do so. In contrast, observers only followed the demonstrator in foraging next to the object during breeding season. Throughout the year more birds were wary of consuming novel foods than wary of approaching the object, potentially leading to jackdaws' greater reliance on social information about food. Jackdaws' dynamic social cue usage demonstrates the importance of context in predicting how social information is used around novelty, and potentially indicates the conditions that facilitate animals' adjustment to anthropogenic disturbance.
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