Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays

A Nature study of how experience and social context shape caching by scrub-jays. The companion cites its finding that scrub-jays re-cache after being watched. It is the biological example for level 3 of the observer-modeling ladder (Table 2), inferring what the observer knows.

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion Table 2)

Used for

P9Table 2 (level 3); P9

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Studying up: reflexivity, observation & method · Observer effects & deception in animals

Cite

@article{emery2001effects,
  title = {Effects of experience and social context on prospective caching strategies by scrub jays},
  author = {Nathan J. Emery and Nicola S. Clayton},
  year = {2001},
  journal = {Nature},
  doi = {10.1038/35106560},
}