ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Are generalists more innovative than specialists? A comparison of innovative abilities in two wild sympatric mouse lemur species.
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- Can we build a neuroecology of innovativeness similar to that pioneered by David Sherry for spatial memory?Learning & behavior · 2022Article
- Linking cognition to ecology in wild sympatric mouse lemur species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Living in tiny fragments: a glimpse at the ecology of Goodman's mouse lemurs (Microcebus lehilahytsara) in the relic forest of Ankafobe, Central Highlands, Madagascar.Primates; journal of primatology · 2021Article
- First experimental evidence for olfactory species discrimination in two nocturnal primate species (Microcebus lehilahytsara and M. murinus).Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
The propensity to flexibly innovate behavioural variants might advantage animals when dealing with novel or modified ecological or social challenges. Interspecific innovative abilities can be predicted by the degree of ecological generalism and intraspecific variation is predicted by personality traits. To examine the effects of these factors on innovation, we compared problem-solving abilities in the generalist grey mouse lemurs (
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