ArticleAnimal cognition2025
Tit wit: environmental and genetic drivers of cognitive variation along an urbanization gradient.
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- Evolution under the city's shadow: reproductive divergence of urban and rural great tits revealed by a common garden experiment.Evolution letters · 2026Article
- The heritability of spatial memory and caching behaviour in a food-storing bird.Animal cognition · 2025Article
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Cognitive abilities can promote acclimation to life in cities. However, the genetic versus environmental drivers of cognition have rarely been studied in the wild and there exists a major knowledge gap concerning the role of cognition in adaptation to urban contexts. We evaluate cognitive variation in wild great tits (Parus major; N = 393) along an urban gradient, and estimate the genetic basis of this variation using a combination of a common garden experiment, quantitative genetic analysis, and genome-wide association study. Specifically, we measure inhibitory control abilities which affect how animals respond to novel challenges. We find that wild urban and forest tits do not clearly differ in inhibitory control performance (number of errors or the latency to escape) during a motor detour task; a result that was consistent in birds from urban and forest origins reared in a common garden (N = 73) despite average performance differing between wild and captive birds. Cognitive performance was repeatable (R = 0.35-0.38) and showed low to moderate heritability in the wild (h
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