Numerosity in animals

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17 items

Can honey bees count landmarks?

L. Chittka, K. Geiger

1995

Animal Behaviour

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Numerical ordering of zero in honey bees

Scarlett R. Howard, A. Avarguès-Weber, Jair E. Garcia et al.

2018

Science

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Numerical cognition in honeybees enables addition and subtraction

Scarlett R. Howard, A. Avarguès-Weber, Jair E. Garcia et al.

2019

Science Advances

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Behavioral and Neuronal Representation of Numerosity Zero in the Crow

Maximilian E. Kirschhock, Helen M. Ditz, A. Nieder et al.

2021

The Journal of Neuroscience

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Bumblebees Use Sequential Scanning of Countable Items in Visual Patterns to Solve Numerosity Tasks

Hadi Maboudi, H. S. Galpayage Dona, Elia Gatto et al.

2020

Integrative and comp...

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Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo

K. McComb, C. Packer, A. Pusey

1994

Animal Behaviour

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Nothing to it: Precursors to a zero concept in preschoolers

Dustin J. Merritt, E. Brannon

2013

Behavioural Processes

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Neurons in the Dorso-Central Division of Zebrafish Pallium Respond to Change in Visual Numerosity

A. Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona et al.

2020

bioRxiv

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Number detectors spontaneously emerge in a deep neural network designed for visual object recognition

Khaled Nasr, P. Viswanathan, A. Nieder et al.

2019

Science Advances

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Honey bees zero in on the empty set

Andreas Nieder

2018

Science

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Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb-weaver

R. L. Rodríguez, R. Briceño, Eduardo Briceño-Aguilar et al.

2014

Animal Cognition

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The numerical abilities of anurans and their neural correlates: insights from neuroethological studies of acoustic communication

G. Rose

2018

Philosophical Transa...

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Arithmetic in newborn chicks

R. Rugani, Laura Fontanari, E. Simoni et al.

2009

Proceedings of the R...

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Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line

R. Rugani, G. Vallortigara, K. Priftis et al.

2015

Science

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Middle identification for rhesus monkeys is influenced by number but not extent

Rosa Rugani, Michael L. Platt, Zhaoying Chen & Elizabeth M. Brannon et al.

2020

Nature Scientific Reports

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Arithmetic-Like Reasoning in Wild Vervet Monkeys: A Demonstration of Cost-Benefit Calculation in Foraging

S. Tsutsumi, Tomokazu Ushitani, K. Fujita et al.

2011

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The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps

Matthias Wittlinger, R. Wehner, H. Wolf et al.

2006

Science

Paper

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