Journal
BIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0042
Keywords
Eurasian jay; corvid; food-sharing; specific satiety; desire-state attribution
Categories
Funding
- BBSRC
- Royal Society
- States of Jersey ESC
- Rutherford Foundation
- Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
- MRC
- University of Cambridge
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/I000690/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/I000690/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Humans' predictions of another person's behaviour are regularly influenced by what they themselves might know or want. In a previous study, we found that male Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) could cater for their female partner's current desire when sharing food with her. Here, we tested the extent to which the males' decisions are influenced by their own current desire. When the males' and female's desires matched, males correctly shared the food that was desired by both. When the female's desire differed from their own, the males' decisions were not entirely driven by their own desires, suggesting that males also took the female's desire into account. Thus, the male jays' decisions about their mates' desires are partially biased by their own desire and might be based upon similar processes as those found in humans.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available