ReviewiScience2021
Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild.
Review in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Hunting by humans affects the navigation of two endangered mammals in Zimbabwe and Brazil.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Predictors of Baboon Sleep Site Selection in Gorongosa National Park.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Audience effects in sooty mangabey agonistic behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Changes in movement patterns in relation to sun conditions and spatial scales in wild western gorillas.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Cortical adaptation of the night monkey to a nocturnal niche environment: a comparative non-invasive T1w/T2w myelin study.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Mild movement sequence repetition in five primate species and evidence for a taxonomic divide in cognitive mechanisms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Where to sleep next? Evidence for spatial memory associated with sleeping sites in Skywalker gibbons (Hoolock tianxing).Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Chimpanzees (Science advances · 2022Article
- Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Cognitive maps in the wild: revealing the use of metric information in black howler monkey route navigation.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Stochastic dynamics of social patch foraging decisions.Physical review researchArticle
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Abstract
Within comparative psychology, the evolution of animal cognition is typically studied either by comparing indirect measures of cognitive abilities (e.g., relative brain size) across many species or by conducting batteries of decision-making experiments among (typically) a few captive species. Here, we propose a third, complementary approach: inferring and comparing cognitive abilities through observational field records of natural information gradients and the associated variation in decision-making outcomes, using the ranging behavior of wild animals. To demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal, we present the results of a global survey assessing the availability of long-term ranging data sets from wild primates and the willingness of primatologists to share such data. We explore three ways in which such ranging data, with or without the associated behavioral and ecological data often collected by primatologists, might be used to infer and compare spatial cognition. Finally, we suggest how ecological complexity may be best incorporated into comparative analyses.
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