User profile of AndrewDHigginson
Behavioural ecologist interested in the effects of predation and ecology on morphology and behaviour. Based at the University of Exeter.
AndrewDHigginson has posted 56 Findings :
Great tits distinguish between foods of different quality depending on the frequency of the better type but not on the frequency of the worse type.
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Wed Dec 20 2017
Groups of humans show a general intelligence that is not simply related to individual intelligence, but social sensitivity and proportion of women
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
Football playing bumblebees show how complex insect learning can be
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
Democratic decisions by animal groups give better average outcomes than decisions by a despot
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
Great decision accuracy can be achieved by groups through individuals having local interactions without communication
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
Bat groups are willing to split up rather than everyone go with the majority decision
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
Groups of animals can stay together and make fast and accurate decisions if each individual mostly goes with the majority
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Nov 10 2017
To better understand the behaviour of animals we need to combine two approaches: understanding why they make decisions and how they make decisions
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Understanding the interactions between individual animals requires appreciating that they have flexible responses to each other, rather than have fixed behaviour
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017
Conflicts between animals may be decided by which is bigger, but also by some ‘convention’, such as who found a resource first, that enables animals to avoid fighting too much
Posted by: AndrewDHigginson Posted Fri Oct 27 2017