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Memory in Hummingbirds

Lookup NU author(s): Dr David PritchardORCiD

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Abstract

Hummingbirds are faced with a challenging memory task every day. In order to keep a positive energy balance, these birds need to remember which flowers they have visited and which ones they have not. The properties of flowers provide hummingbirds with different types of information about colour, shape, space, and time to guide how they forage. Here we discuss how researchers have adapted established laboratory paradigms for use in the field to understand how hummingbirds use this information. We discuss why hummingbirds have turned out to be a suitable model to study cognition in the wild, the main findings that have established how to study memory in wild animals of a project expanding to three decades.

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Author(s): Tello-Ramos M, Pritchard DJ

Editor(s): Kaufman, AB; Call, J; Kaufman, JC

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition

Year: 2021

Pages: 174-189

Print publication date: 01/07/2021

Online publication date: 01/07/2021

Acceptance date: 01/05/2021

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Place Published: Cambridge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564113.011

DOI: 10.1017/9781108564113.011

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781108564113

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