What Can Nest-Building Birds Teach Us?
What Can Nest-Building Birds Teach Us?
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DOI：
10.3819/ccbr.2016.110005
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发表时间：
2016-04-01
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通讯作者：
Healy, Susan D.
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作者：
Breen, Alexis J.;Guillette, Lauren M.;Healy, Susan D.
多年来，鸟类筑巢一直被认为是一种非凡的行为。也许同样值得注意的是，公众和学术界的共识是，鸟巢仅凭本能就能实现。在这里，我们借此机会回顾了近150年来关于鸟巢建设的观测和实验数据。结果，我们发现仅凭直觉是不足以解释数据的：鸟类使用它们自己和从其他个体收集的信息来做出筑巢决定。重要的是，这些数据证实，学习在各种筑巢决定中发挥着重要作用。然后，我们概述了学习(例如，印记、联想学习、社交学习)可能影响筑巢的多种方式，以及这些方式如何有助于解释筑巢行为和由此产生的结构的多样性。因此，我们争辩说，筑巢是一种研究得很少的行为，它既有希望确定在该行为中学习的各种角色，也有希望成为检验大脑-行为关系的新模型系统。
For many years nest building in birds has been considered a remarkable behaviour. Perhaps just as remarkable is the public and scholarly consensus that bird nests are achieved by instinct alone. Here we take the opportunity to review nearly 150 years of observational and experimental data on avian nest building. As a result we find that instinct alone is insufficient to explain the data: birds use information they gather themselves and from other individuals to make nest-building decisions. Importantly, these data confirm that learning plays a significant role in a variety of nest-building decisions. We outline, then, the multiplicity of ways in which learning (e.g., imprinting, associative learning, social learning) might act to affect nest building and how these might help to explain the diversity both of nest-building behaviour and in the resulting structure. As a consequence, we contend that nest building is a much under-investigated behaviour that holds promise both for determining a variety of roles for learning in that behaviour as well as a new model system for examining brain-behaviour relationships.