Here are a sample of the articles we discussed in the Spring 2013 term
- Kotrschal et al. (2013) Artificial selection on relative brain size in the guppy reveals costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain. Current Biology, 23, 168-171 and Isler (2013) Brain Size Evolution: How Fish Pay for Being Smart http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.042
- Pettit et al. (2013) Not just passengers: pigeons, Columba livia, can learn homing routes while flying with a more experienced conspecific. Proc. R. Soc. B, 280, 20122160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2160
- Ostojic et al. (2013) Evidence suggesting that desire-state attribution may govern food sharing in Eurasian jays. PNAS www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1209926110
- Elgier et al. (2012) Pointing following in dogs: are simple or complex cognitive mechanisms involved? Animal Cognition 15:1111–1119
- Demuru & Palagi (2012) In bonobos yawn contagion is higher among kin and friends. PLoS ONE 7(11) e49613
- Clarke et al. (2013) Detection and learning of floral electric fields by bumblebees. Science 340, 66 DOI: 10.1126/science.1230883 and Greggers et al. (2013) Reception and learning of electric fields in bees. Proc. R. Soc. B 2013 280, 20130528