Tits use amodal completion in predator recognition: a field experiment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tits use amodal completion in predator recognition: a field experiment
Original language description
Amodal completion enables an animal to perceive partly concealed objects as an entirety, and to interact with them appropriately. Several studies, based upon either operant conditioning or filial imprinting techniques, have shown that various animals (both mammals and birds) can perform amodal completion. Before this study, the use of amodal completion by untrained animals in the recognition of objects had not been considered. Using two feeders, we observed in a field experiment the reaction of tits tothe torso of a sparrowhawk (partly occluded or an 'amputated' dummy) in two different treatments (sparrowhawk torso vs. complete dummy pigeon; and torso vs. complete dummy sparrowhawk). It is clear that the birds considered the two torso variants as predators and kept away from both of them when the second feeder offered a 'pigeon' instead. On the other hand, when a 'complete sparrowhawk' was present on the second feeder, the number of visits to the occluded torso remained
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/IAA601410803" target="_blank" >IAA601410803: Recognition of predators and other dangerous organisms by terrestrial vertebrates</a><br>
Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2010
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Animal Cognition
ISSN
1435-9448
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000278810100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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