SGER: Exploratory Techniques for the Study of Parrot Behavioral Ecology

SGER：鹦鹉行为生态学研究的探索性技术

• 批准号: 9811611
• 负责人: Irene Pepperberg
• 金额: $ 3.18万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811611&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Exploratory; Techniques; Study; Parrot

NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACT Proposal Number: 9811611 PI: Pepperberg, Irene M. Humphrey (1976) proposed that intelligence derives from selection processes favoring animals that remember and act upon knowledge of detailed social relations among group members, i.e. complicated social systems and long lives correlate with intelligence. Tests of this idea have concentrated on primates. This project extends studies to birds. Comparing social species and their ecological and social selective pressures will provide insight into the evolution of cognition and complex communication systems. Grey parrots Psittacus erithacus are ideal subjects; they are among the very few avian species for which sufficient cognitive and communicative laboratory data exist. This project will provide behavioral data from nature to test Humphrey's hypothesis. The objectives are to: (1) combine conventional observations (including video and audio recordings) and VHF radio-tracking with novel techniques using Global Positioning System data; and (2) apply these techniques to determine Grey parrot ranging patterns, social organization, and vocal behavior to address hypotheses about ecological explanations for cognitive abilities Greys exhibit in the laboratory, the role of sociality in the evolution of intelligence, and processes resulting in vocal variation in birds. This project will impact animal research technologies with the development of hybrid GPS/VHF tracking. Results will benefit conservation efforts, and shed light on the evolution of intelligence across diverse species and provide insights concerning vocal learning in birds.

非技术摘要 提案编号：9811611 PI：Pepperberg、Irene M. Humphrey（1976）提出，智力源自有利于动物的选择过程，这些动物能够记住群体成员之间详细的社会关系并根据知识采取行动，即复杂的社会系统和长寿与智力相关。 这个想法的测试主要集中在灵长类动物身上。 该项目将研究范围扩展到鸟类。比较社会物种及其生态和社会选择压力将有助于深入了解认知和复杂通信系统的演变。 灰鹦鹉 Psittacus erithacus 是理想的实验对象；它们是极少数拥有足够认知和交流实验室数据的鸟类物种之一。 该项目将提供来自自然界的行为数据来检验汉弗莱的假设。 目标是： (1) 将传统观测（包括视频和音频记录）和甚高频无线电跟踪与使用全球定位系统数据的新技术相结合； （2）应用这些技术来确定灰鹦鹉的测距模式、社会组织和声音行为，以解决灰鹦鹉在实验室中表现出的认知能力的生态解释、社交性在智力进化中的作用以及导致鸟类声音变化的过程的假设。 该项目将通过混合 GPS/VHF 跟踪的发展影响动物研究技术。 研究结果将有利于保护工作，揭示不同物种的智力进化，并提供有关鸟类声音学习的见解。