Abstract
Interest in studying cognitive ecology has moved the field of animal cognition into the wild. Animals face many challenges such as finding food and other resources, avoiding and deterring predators and choosing the best mate to increase their reproductive success. To solve these dilemmas, animals need to rely on a range of cognitive abilities. Studying cognition in natural settings is a powerful approach revealing the link between adaptive form and biological function. Recent technological and analytical advances opened up completely new opportunities and research directions for studying animal cognition. Such innovative studies were able to disclose the variety in cognitive processes that animals use to survive and reproduce. Cognition indeed plays a major role in the daily lives of wild animals, in which the integration of many different types of information using a diverse range of cognitive processes enhances fitness.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 101115 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences |
| Volume | 44 |
| Early online date | 2 Mar 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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