Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings.
Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings.
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10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.002
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发表时间：
2013-07
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Bateson, Melissa
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作者：
Feenders, Gesa;Bateson, Melissa
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人工饲养是鸟类行为研究中的一种常见程序。虽然可能会产生更温顺的实验动物，但也有可能导致大脑的病理变化，以及类似于经历过母体分离的哺乳动物的行为。我们探索了人工饲养对欧洲八哥认知和行为发育的影响，以评估从人工饲养动物中获得的结果的普遍性。两组年龄匹配的鸟类是从相同的野生种群中培育出来的：一组在羽毛出生后10天人工饲养，另一组作为独立的幼鸟被带到实验室。这些人在一系列神经心理学任务上进行了比较，这些任务旨在探索认知功能的不同方面，包括学习、持之以恒的认知、间隔时间、新恐惧症和冲动。没有证据表明人工饲养的鸟类存在认知障碍。与野生鸟类相比，它们的学习速度没有降低，间隔时间的准确性或精确度没有下降，也没有病理性的持之以恒的认知。此外，没有证据表明在实验室笼子里形成刻板印象的鸟(主要是野生捕获的鸟)有任何认知障碍，尽管这可能是因为没有鸟有严重的、结晶的刻板印象。有一些证据表明，与野生鸟类相比，人工饲养的鸟类不那么害怕新事物，也不那么冲动，这表明人工饲养可能会改变情绪调节的决策，使其朝着通常与哺乳动物的发育压力减少有关的方向发展。因此，这项研究支持将人工饲养作为雀形目鸟类行为研究的一种实验程序。我们使用神经心理学测试来研究人工饲养对八哥的影响。手的养育不影响联想学习、间隔时间或毅力。认知持之以恒与刻板印象行为无关。人工饲养的鸟不那么害怕，也不那么冲动。亲手教养会改变情绪反应，但不会改变基本认知。
Hand rearing is a common procedure in behavioural research on birds. While likely to produce tamer experimental animals, there is a risk that it could induce pathological changes in brain and behaviour similar to those seen in mammals that have experienced maternal separation. We explored the effects of hand rearing on the cognitive and behavioural development of European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, to assess the generality of results obtained from hand-reared animals. Two groups of age-matched birds were created from the same wild population: one hand-reared from 10 days posthatch and one brought into the laboratory as independent juveniles. These groups were compared on a battery of neuropsychological tasks designed to probe different aspects of cognitive function including learning, perseverative cognition, interval timing, neophobia and impulsivity. There was no evidence for cognitive impairment in the hand-reared birds. They did not have reduced learning speed, impairments in accuracy or precision of interval timing or pathological perseverative cognition compared to the wild-caught birds. Additionally, there was no evidence that birds that developed stereotypies in laboratory cages (predominantly the wild-caught birds) had any cognitive impairments, although this may be because no birds had severe, crystallized stereotypies. There was some evidence that hand-reared birds were less neophobic and less impulsive than wild-caught birds, suggesting that hand rearing might alter emotionally mediated decision making in a direction usually associated with reduced developmental stress in mammals. This study therefore supports the use of hand rearing as an experimental procedure in behavioural research on passerine birds. We used neuropsychological tests to study the effects of hand rearing in starlings. Hand rearing did not affect associative learning, interval timing or perseveration. Cognitive perseveration was not correlated with stereotypic behaviour. Hand-reared birds were less fearful and also less impulsive. Hand rearing alters emotional responses but not basic cognition.
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发表时间：
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