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How do you differentiate between intelligence and curiosity? Gulls will pick at any object near them including trash; and the researchers leave a bright red str
by petee 5y ago
How do you differentiate between intelligence and curiosity? Gulls will pick at any object near them including trash; and the researchers leave a bright red string next to its babies, of course its going to do something about it. I'd think doing this next to a nest taints the experiment.
- ptha 5y agoIt seems that putting the test near the nest was done deliberately: Cognition is challenging to assess in wild animals because testing paradigms often require individuals living under similar conditions to be tested repeatedly. Administering cognitive tests where wild animals rear their offspring can overcome this challenge because breeders often return reliably to a known location. [1] [1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211343#d1e241 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211343#d...
- petee 5y agoThank you, I definitely hadn't read the original. It makes perfect sense, but I am still not sure just dropping a box halfway on the nest could have no impact on the results. Reading your link, it says that some string tests also use unbaited strings, but it seems they didn't do that here? And I to bust my own argument, it also does say that some gulls didn't even interact with the string...