dc.contributor.author |
Tabellario, Stacey |
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dc.contributor.author |
Babitz, Mindy A. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Bauer, Erika B. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Brown-Palsgrove, Michael |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-11-08T03:01:39Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-11-08T03:01:39Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2020 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Tabellario, Stacey, Babitz, Mindy A., Bauer, Erika B., and Brown-Palsgrove, Michael. 2020. "Picture recognition of food by sloth bears (Melursus ursinus)." <em>Animal Cognition</em>. 23:227–231. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01314-w">https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01314-w</a> |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1435-9448 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10088/99428 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Pictures are often used in cognitive research to represent objects and many species have demonstrated the ability to recognize two-dimensional pictures as representations of their three-dimensional counterparts. However, for ursids picture recognition has been reported in only one study of a single 11-year-old female American black bear (Johnson-Ulrich et al. 2016). We tested the picture recognition abilities of an additional species, the sloth bear. After a food preference test by which the bears' food options were ranked and categorized as high-, mid-, and low-preference items, we tested a sub-adult male and an adult female sloth bear by presenting two pictures of food in each testing trial-a high-preference food and a low-preference food. Both bears met the criterion by choosing the pictures of their preferred foods in at least 80% of the trials in three consecutive testing sessions. We then presented never-before-used pictures of high-preference versus low-preference food items and they again met our criterion. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Animal Cognition |
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dc.title |
Picture recognition of food by sloth bears (<I>Melursus ursinus</I>) |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.srbnumber |
153070 |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1007/s10071-019-01314-w |
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rft.jtitle |
Animal Cognition |
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rft.volume |
23 |
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rft.spage |
227 |
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rft.epage |
231 |
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dc.description.SIUnit |
NZP |
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dc.citation.spage |
227 |
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dc.citation.epage |
231 |
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