Congrats to Ed Galluccio on the first paper from his PhD, showing that associative learning score is related to the antipredator response and associative learning score declines under heat stress. However, heat stress does not impact the cognition-antipredator relationship.
Mandy Ridley
New paper alert!
Heat stress impacts the relationship between cognition and anti-predator behaviour in wild magpies. Congrats to Ed Galluccio! With collaborators Ben Ashton, Alex Thornton, and @mandyridley.bsky.social
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We found that heat stress amplified the behavioural consequences of individual differences in cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies. Ind
