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Behavioural and Neural Bases of Orientation in Food-Storing Birds

Sherry, David F., Duff, Sarah J.·1996·Journal of Experimental Biology

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Food-storing birds retrieve hoarded food by remembering the locations of large numbers of spatially dispersed caches. The basic patterns of spatial orientation in these animals have been established in research on two major groups of food-storing birds, chickadees and tits (Paridae), and jays and nutcrackers (Corvidae). Experiments using displacement of landmark arrays show that food-storing birds rely on visual information from nearby landmarks to locate concealed caches. The appearance of the cache sites themselves seems to be relatively unimportant in cache retrieval, perhaps because local features are subject to change during the lifetime of a cache. Under some conditions, food-storing birds use sun-compass information to orient their search for caches, but appear to integrate sun-compass information with landmark information. Lesions of the avian hippocampus disrupt cache retrieval and other spatial tasks in food-storing birds without disrupting the formation of simple associations. Comparative studies show that food-storing birds possess a hippocampus larger than that of non-food-storing birds, probably as an evolutionary consequence of their dependence on spatial orientation for cache retrieval. Experience with cache retrieval plays a role in the development of increased hippocampal size, and there are indications of seasonal variation in hippocampal size in food-storing species.

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  • As a whole, these results indicate that teleost fish, like mammals, birds, and reptilians, can use allocentric strategies to solve spatial tasks.

    “As a whole, these results indicate that teleost fish, like mammals [39,48,65,68,96], birds [97,98,99,100], and reptilians [101,102], can use allocentric strategies to solve spatial tasks.”

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  • Hippocampal lesions in mammals, birds, and reptiles produce impairments on spatial tasks that require the use of map-like or relational spatial memory.

    “For example, in mammals [39,57,72,149], birds [97,98,99,150,151,152,153], and reptiles [112,154,155,156,157], the hippocampal lesions produce impairments on spatial tasks that require the use of map-like or relational spatial memory.”

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Authors
Sherry, D. F., & Duff, S. J.
Affiliations
Western University (CA)
Venue
Journal of Experimental Biology
Published
1996-01-01
Volume
199
Issue
1
Pages
165-172
ISSN
  • 0022-0949 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-9145
OpenAlex
W2268694300
Cited by
99
References
40
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
24.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Experimental Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
spatial orientation, spatial memory, landmarks, sun compass, avian hippocampus, hippocampal lesions, chickadees, Paridae, jays, Nutcracker, comparative neuroanatomy, seasonal variation, cognitive evolution

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