Behavioral flexibility is not predicted by innovation or brain size in great-tailed grackles, New Caledonian crows, and Western scrub jays

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• Corina Logan, University of Cambridge
• Tuesday 03 November 2015, 16:00-17:00
• Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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Many cross-species studies attest that innovation frequency (novel food types eaten and foraging techniques used) is a measure of behavioral flexibility and show that it positively correlates with relative brain size (corrected for body size). I investigated behavioral flexibility directly in three bird species that vary in innovation frequency and relative brain size, and found that it does not correlate with either variable. These results challenge long-standing assumptions and question the use of proxies for behavioral flexibility.

This talk is part of the Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series series.

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