Many animals cache food when it is abundant and later rely in part on spatial memory to
retrieve those caches. The importance of memory for cache recovery and fitness in food …

An animal's behavior is affected by its cognitive abilities, which are, in turn, a consequence
of the environment in which an animal has evolved and developed. Although behavioral …

This essay presents and discusses the state of the art in studies of desert ant (Cataglyphis)
navigation. In dealing with behavioural performances, neural mechanisms, and ecological …

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the
principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new …

Darwin argued that between-species differences in intelligence were differences of degree,
not of kind. The contemporary ecological approach to animal cognition argues that animals …

Understanding the survival value of behaviour does not tell us how the mechanisms that
control this behaviour work. Nevertheless, understanding survival value can guide the study …

Sara Shettleworth has played a defining role in the development of animal cognition and its
integration into other parts of biology, especially behavioural ecology. Here we chart some …

Studies investigating the same paradigm but employing different methods are often directly
compared in the literature. One such paradigm used to assess behavioural flexibility in …

The three-way association among food-storing behavior, spatial memory, and hippocampal
enlargement in some species of birds is widely cited as an example of a new 'cognitive …

We describe the modelling of sheep spatial memory at pasture using an individual-based
approach. As our modelling goal requires specification of stochastic and state-dependent …