NDLI: Inferences about food location in three cercopithecine species: an insight into the socioecological cognition of primates

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Author	Petit, Odile Dufour, Valérie Herrenschmidt, Marie Marco, Arianna Sterck, Elisabeth H. M. Call, Josep
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Many animal species use a variety of cognitive strategies to locate food resources. One strategy is to make inferences by exclusion, i.e., perceiving the absence of reward as a cue that another location should be investigated. The use of such advanced cognitive strategies may be more prominent in species that are known to frequently solve social challenges, and inferential reasoning has mainly been investigated in social species such as corvids, dogs, dolphins and non-human primates. In this paper, we investigate how far social intricacy may explain the disparity of reasoning performances observed in three cercopithecine species that differ in the density of their social network and the diversity of their social partners. We used standard reasoning tasks, testing the volume concept and inference by exclusion using visual and auditory modalities. We showed that Old World monkeys can infer the location of invisible food by exclusion. In addition, Tonkean macaques and olive baboons had greater performances in most tasks compared to rhesus macaques. These responses are consistent with the social complexity displayed by these three species. We suggest that the cognitive strategies required to navigate through a demanding social world are involved in the understanding of the physical domain.
Starting Page	821
Ending Page	830
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14359448
Journal	Animal Cognition
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	14359456
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-02-20
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Inference by exclusion Causal reasoning Social complexity Macaca tonkeana Papio hamadryas Anubis M. mulatta Behavioral Sciences Zoology Human Physiology Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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