scholarly journals Staying close to home: Ecological constraints on space use and range fidelity in a mountain ungulate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasaman N. Shakeri ◽  
Kevin S. White ◽  
Jason N. Waite
Keyword(s):  
Space Use ◽  
Ecological Constraints ◽  
Mountain Ungulate

Prospects for Development of Silicon Photoconverters and Batteries for Space Use

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. Gorban ◽  
V.P. Kostylov ◽  
V. N. Borshchov ◽  
A. M. Listratenko
Keyword(s):  
Space Use

Space use and movement patterns of translocated bighorn sheep

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ty J. Werdel ◽  
Jonathan A. Jenks ◽  
John T. Kanta ◽  
Chadwick P. Lehman ◽  
Teresa J. Frink
Keyword(s):  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Bighorn Sheep

scholarly journals The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bas van Woerkum
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Insufficient Information ◽  
Ecological Constraints ◽  
Animal Minds ◽  
Learning Abilities ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

AbstractA persisting question in the philosophy of animal minds is which nonhuman animals share our capacity for episodic memory (EM). Many authors address this question by primarily defining EM, trying to capture its seemingly unconstrained flexibility and independence from environmental and bodily constraints. EM is therefore often opposed to clearly context-bound capacities like tracking environmental regularities and forming associations. The problem is that conceptualizing EM in humans first, and then reconstructing how humans evolved this capacity, provides little constraints for understanding the evolution of memory abilities in other species: it defines “genuine” EM as independent from animals’ evolved sensorimotor setup and learning abilities. In this paper, I define memory in terms of perceptual learning: remembering means “knowing (better) what to do in later situations because of past experience in similar earlier situations”. After that, I explain how episodic memory can likewise be explained in terms of perceptual learning. For this, we should consider that the information in animals’ ecological niches is much richer than has hitherto been presumed. Accordingly, instead of asking “given that environmental stimuli provide insufficient information about the cache, what kind of representation does the jay need?” we ask “given that the animal performs in this way, what kind of information is available in the environment?” My aim is not to give a complete alternative explanation of EM; rather, it is to provide conceptual and methodological tools for more zoocentric comparative EM-research.

Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Hunter Space Use and Success

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary M. Rowland ◽  
Ryan M. Nielson ◽  
Michael J. Wisdom ◽  
Bruce K. Johnson ◽  
Scott Findholt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Space Use ◽  
Landscape Characteristics
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