ArticleAnimal behaviour2016
Seasonal changes in neophobia and its consistency in rooks: the effect of novelty type and dominance position.
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- Metabolic rate does not explain performance on a short-term memory task or personality traits in juvenile chickens (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Influence of age, breeding state and approach direction on sensitivity to human gaze: a field study on Azure-winged magpies.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Neophobia and innovation in Critically Endangered Bali myna,Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Reaction to novelty as a behavioral assay of recognition memory in homing pigeons and Japanese quail.Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Body mass and sex, but not breeding condition and season, influence open-field exploration in the yellow-necked mouse.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Novelty Knows No Boundaries: Why a Proper Investigation of Novelty Effects Within SHRI Should Begin by Addressing the Scientific Plurality of the Field.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
- A systematic study of autonomous and nonautonomous predator-prey models for the combined effects of fear, refuge, cooperation and harvesting.European physical journal plus · 2022Article
- Neophobia in 10 ungulate species-a comparative approach.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2021Article
- Individual exploratory responses are not repeatable across time or context for four species of food-storing corvid.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Captive jays exhibit reduced problem-solving performance compared to wild conspecifics.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Repeatable aversion across threat types is linked with life-history traits but is dependent on how aversion is measured.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Boldness traits, not dominance, predict exploratory flight range and homing behaviour in homing pigeons.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- The temporal dependence of exploration on neotic style in birds.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- 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
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Abstract
Neophobia, or the fear of novelty, may offer benefits to animals by limiting their exposure to unknown danger, but can also impose costs by preventing the exploration of potential resources. The costs and benefits of neophobia may vary throughout the year if predation pressure, resource distribution or conspecific competition changes seasonally. Despite such variation, neophobia levels are often assumed to be temporally and individually stable. Whether or not neophobia expression changes seasonally and fluctuates equally for all individuals is crucial to understanding the drivers, consequences and plasticity of novelty avoidance. We investigated seasonal differences and individual consistency in the motivation and novelty responses of a captive group of rooks,
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