- Title
- Inference by exclusion in the red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
- Creator
- Subias, Lorraine; Griffin, Andrea S.; Guez, David
- Relation
- Integrative Zoology Vol. 14, Issue 2, p. 193-203
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12299
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Inference by exclusion is the ability to select a given option by excluding the others. When designed appropriately, tests of this ability can reveal choices that cannot be explained by associative processes. Over the past decade, exclusion reasoning has been explored in several non-human taxonomic groups, including birds, mainly in Corvids and Parrots. To increase our understanding of the taxonomic distribution of exclusion reasoning and, therefore, its evolution, we investigated exclusion performances in red-tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii), an Australian relative of the Goffin cockatoo (Cacatua goffini), using a food-finding task. Cockatoos were required to find a food item hidden in 1 of the 2 experimenter's hands. Following training sessions in which they reliably selected the closed baited hand they had just been shown open, each individual was tested on 4 different conditions. Critical to demonstrating exclusion reasoning was the condition in which they were shown the empty hand and then offered a choice of both closed hands. The performance of all birds was above chance on all experimental conditions but not on an olfactory and/or cuing control condition. The results suggest that the birds might be able to infer by exclusion, although an explanation based on rule learning cannot be excluded. This first experiment in red-tailed black cockatoo highlights the potential of this species as a model to study avian cognition and paves the pathway for future investigations.
- Subject
- cognition; comparative cognition; inferential reasoning; parrot cognition; Psittaciforms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1405816
- Identifier
- uon:35553
- Identifier
- ISSN:1749-4877
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: “SUBIAS, L., GRIFFIN, A.S. and GUEZ, D. (2019), Inference by exclusion in the red‐tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii). Integrative Zoology, 14: 193-203.”, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/ 10.1111/1749-4877.12299. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions
- Language
- eng
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