ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
The quick are the dead: pheasants that are slow to reverse a learned association survive for longer in the wild.
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Abstract
Cognitive abilities probably evolve through natural selection if they provide individuals with fitness benefits. A growing number of studies demonstrate a positive relationship between performance in psychometric tasks and (proxy) measures of fitness. We assayed the performance of 154 common pheasant (
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