from Part V - Numerical and Quantitative Abilities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
The study of numerical capacities in animals has a long and colorful history, and has enjoyed a resurgence of intriguing experiments in recent years, exploring a variety of species outside the use of more typical laboratory species, including nonhuman primates, in the past two decades.A wealth of new studies has been forthcoming, including a significant number of well-controlled experiments with fish, and have examined the contribution of group size, movement, species, and sex of fish, surface area of aggregated conspecifics, number vs. continuous quantity, and the development of quantity-discrimination skills.Most such skills appear to be within the capacity of certain fish species, and these studies have also been expanded to include other amphibians, such as salamanders, frogs, and toads.Additional studies have been extended to canid populations not previously examined for numerical skills, including feral dogs, coyotes, and wolves.While much of the last thirty years of experiments with more complex numerical skills in animals were conducted with chimpanzees, more recent studies with monkeys and continued comparisons with chimpanzees have established a host of demonstrated skills in the archival literature.The area of quantity discriminations, numerosity, and numerical skills remains an exciting and vibrant area for future experimental work in comparative cognition.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.