Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task ...
Domestication is generally assumed to have resulted in enhanced communication abilities between non-primate mammals and humans, although the number of species studied is very limited (e.g. cats, Felis catus; dogs, Canis familiaris; wolves, Canis lupus; goats, Capra hircus; horses, Equus caballus). I...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k6k6 2024-02-04T09:59:31+01:00 Kangaroos display gazing and gaze alternations during an unsolvable problem task ... McElligott, Alan O’Keeffe, Kristine Green, Alexandra 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k6k6 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k6k6 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0607 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 FOS Biological sciences Animal cognition domestication intentional communication physical cognition referential communication Dataset dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pnvx0k6k610.1098/rsbl.2020.0607 2024-01-05T04:51:50Z Domestication is generally assumed to have resulted in enhanced communication abilities between non-primate mammals and humans, although the number of species studied is very limited (e.g. cats, Felis catus; dogs, Canis familiaris; wolves, Canis lupus; goats, Capra hircus; horses, Equus caballus). In species without hands for pointing, gazing at humans when dealing with inaccessible food during an unsolvable task, and in particular gaze alternations between a human and the unsolvable task (considered forms of showing), are often interpreted as attempts at referential intentional communication. We report that kangaroos, marsupial mammals that have never been domesticated, actively gazed at an experimenter during an unsolvable problem task (10/11 kangaroos tested), thus challenging the notion that this behavior results from domestication. Nine of the ten kangaroos additionally showed gaze alternations between the unsolvable task and experimenter. We propose that the potential occurrence of these behaviors ... : Video data were recorded during live observations of kangaroos (n = 11) during six training and one testing trial with an unsolvable task. Videos were analysed with BORIS v. 7.9.7 behavioural analysis software. The behaviours of six kangaroos were double coded by K.H.O and A.C.G. Behavioural observations including proportion of trial interacting with box and experimenter, and presence of gaze alternations between box and experimenter were exported to Microsoft Excel and statistically analysed with R Studio v.1.2.5042 using the 'tidyverse' package for data cleaning and visualisation, 'janitor' package for contingency tables, 'skimr' package for summary statistics. ... Dataset Canis lupus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Domestication is generally assumed to have resulted in enhanced communication abilities between non-primate mammals and humans, although the number of species studied is very limited (e.g. cats, Felis catus; dogs, Canis familiaris; wolves, Canis lupus; goats, Capra hircus; horses, Equus caballus). In species without hands for pointing, gazing at humans when dealing with inaccessible food during an unsolvable task, and in particular gaze alternations between a human and the unsolvable task (considered forms of showing), are often interpreted as attempts at referential intentional communication. We report that kangaroos, marsupial mammals that have never been domesticated, actively gazed at an experimenter during an unsolvable problem task (10/11 kangaroos tested), thus challenging the notion that this behavior results from domestication. Nine of the ten kangaroos additionally showed gaze alternations between the unsolvable task and experimenter. We propose that the potential occurrence of these behaviors ... : Video data were recorded during live observations of kangaroos (n = 11) during six training and one testing trial with an unsolvable task. Videos were analysed with BORIS v. 7.9.7 behavioural analysis software. The behaviours of six kangaroos were double coded by K.H.O and A.C.G. Behavioural observations including proportion of trial interacting with box and experimenter, and presence of gaze alternations between box and experimenter were exported to Microsoft Excel and statistically analysed with R Studio v.1.2.5042 using the 'tidyverse' package for data cleaning and visualisation, 'janitor' package for contingency tables, 'skimr' package for summary statistics. ... |
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