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dc.contributor.authorHämäläinen, Liisa
dc.contributor.authorRowland, Hannah M.
dc.contributor.authorMappes, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorThorogood, Rose
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T09:01:30Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T09:01:30Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationHämäläinen, L., Rowland, H. M., Mappes, J., & Thorogood, R. (2017). Can video playback provide social information for foraging blue tits?. <i>PeerJ</i>, <i>5</i>, Article e3062. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3062" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3062</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_26928075
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_73378
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/53523
dc.description.abstractVideo playback is becoming a common method for manipulating social stimuli in experiments. Parid tits are one of the most commonly studied groups of wild birds. However, it is not yet clear if tits respond to video playback or how their behavioural responses should be measured. Behaviours may also differ depending on what they observe demonstrators encountering. Here we present blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) videos of demonstrators discovering palatable or aversive prey (injected with bittertasting Bitrex) from coloured feeding cups. First we quantify variation in demonstrators’ responses to the prey items: aversive prey provoked high rates of beak wiping and head shaking. We then show that focal blue tits respond differently to the presence of a demonstrator on a video screen, depending on whether demonstrators discover palatable or aversive prey. Focal birds faced the video screen more during aversive prey presentations, and made more head turns. Regardless of prey type, focal birds also hopped more frequently during the presence of a demonstrator (compared to a control video of a different coloured feeding cup in an empty cage). Finally, we tested if demonstrators’ behaviour affected focal birds’ food preferences by giving individuals a choice to forage from the same cup as a demonstrator, or from the cup in the control video. We found that only half of the individuals made their choice in accordance to social information in the videos, i.e., their foraging choices were not different from random. Individuals that chose in accordance with a demonstrator, however, made their choice faster than individuals that chose an alternative cup. Together, our results suggest that video playback can provide social cues to blue tits, but individuals vary greatly in how they use this information in their foraging decisions. Subjects Animal Behavior, Ecology, Evolutionary Studies.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPeerJ Inc.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPeerJ
dc.subject.otherblue tits
dc.subject.othersocial information use
dc.subject.othervideo-playback
dc.titleCan video playback provide social information for foraging blue tits?
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201703301822
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineBiologisten vuorovaikutusten huippututkimusyksikköfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineCentre of Excellence in Biological Interactions Researchen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2017-03-30T12:15:04Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn2167-8359
dc.relation.numberinseries0
dc.relation.volume5
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2017 Hämäläinen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.7717/peerj.3062
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