Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task

• Published in: Animal cognition Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 473 - 491
• Main Authors: Brucks, Désirée, Petelle, Matthew, Baldoni, Cecilia, Krasheninnikova, Anastasia, Rovegno, Eleonora, von Bayern, Auguste M. P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Behavioral Sciences; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Complexity; Delay; Ecological effects; Female; Hypotheses; Life Sciences; Male; Metabolic rate; Original Paper; Parrots; Parrots - classification; Pleasure; Psychology Research; Reinforcement; Reward; Self control; Species; Wild animals; Zoology; Comparative cognition; Parrots; Self-control; Delayed gratification

Forgoing immediate satisfaction for higher pay-offs in the future (delayed gratification) could be adaptive in situations that wild animals may encounter. To explain species-differences in self-control, hypotheses based on social complexity, feeding ecology, brain size and metabolic rate have been p...