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BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 265-270Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2009.07.005
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Animal personality; Black-capped chickadee; Exploratory behaviour; Instrumental discrimination; Learning acquisition
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Alberta Ingenuity Fund (AIF)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Individual variation in exploratory behaviour has been demonstrated in a diverse array of animal species. Understanding the evolutionary antecedents and ecological consequences of this variation is an active research area within animal behaviour. Here we investigate whether different exploration styles exhibited by black-capped chickadees (Poecile atticapillus) in a novel environment are related to how quickly these birds learn an acoustic discrimination task. We found that birds that readily enter a novel environment learn an acoustic discrimination task faster than birds that do not readily enter a novel environment. This result contrasts with previous work suggesting no correlation between exploration style and learning a spatial or associative task in great tits (Parus major), a close relative of the black-capped chickadee. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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