The Memory of Animals: From the Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground

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A cognitive bias refers to a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other individuals or situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. There are numerous examples of dogs who have found their way home after being away for a long time. This takes good memory skills and dogs are certainly among the most intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom. Monkeys Instinctive drift can influence the interpretation of cognitive research. Instinctive drift is the tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with learned responses. The concept originated with Keller and Marian Breland when they taught a raccoon to put coins into a box. The raccoon drifted to its instinctive behavior of rubbing the coins with its paws, as it would do when foraging for food. [152] Simply and effectively structured in the time period before and after Day Zero, a pandemic of gargantuan devastation, the narrative asks important, resonant questions of life in extremis. How do we divide resources, how do we decide who is worthy of help, what do we do when society breaks down, when there’s no one left to monitor right and wrong? And underpinning all these questions, the most pressing one: in a world where everyone is struggling to stay alive, who gets to survive? Stebbins WC, Berkley MA (1990). Comparative Perception, Vol. I, Basic Mechanisms; Vol. II, Complex Signals. New York: Wiley.

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In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London—perhaps humanity’s last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers—Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper—cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there. Vaughan Jr W (1988). "Formation of equivalence sets in pigeons". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 14: 36–42. doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.14.1.36. Jaakkola K, Fellner W, Erb L, Rodriguez M, Guarino E (August 2005). "Understanding of the concept of numerically "less" by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 119 (3): 296–303. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.3.296. PMID 16131258. Boysen ST, Berntson GG, Mukobi KL (March 2001). "Size matters: impact of item size and quantity on array choice by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 115 (1): 106–10. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.115.1.106. PMID 11334213.But it seems like most animals have a very bad short-term memory when it comes to events that are not critical to survival. Miller S, Konorski J (1928). "Sur une forme particulière des reflexes conditionels". Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie et de Ses Filiales. 99: 1155–1157.

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A variety of studies indicates that animals are able to use and communicate quantitative information, and that some can count in a rudimentary way. Some examples of this research follow. From the Costa-Winning, Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about human need and survival, for readers of Never Let me Goand Station ElevenAccording to these studies, Bottlenose Dolphins have been able to remember the sounds of other Dolphins over a period of 20 years. Each Dolphin has it’s own unique whistle sound which is distinguishable to other Dolphins. Whales All of which is to say that there’s potential in the set-up here – this group of strangers, “[fraying] threads tied together by calamity and shared need, each tugging on an end hoping to make the knot firmer but risking undoing the messy tangle”. Well-versed in writing worst-case scenarios, Fuller’s got more past form than many of the authors who’ve been dipping their toes in apocalyptic tales of late, but The Memory of Animals still feels leaden. Murphy RA, Mondragón E, Murphy VA (March 2008). "Rule learning by rats" (PDF). Science. 319 (5871): 1849–51. Bibcode: 2008Sci...319.1849M. doi: 10.1126/science.1151564. PMID 18369151. S2CID 591112. Bottlenose dolphins have shown the ability to choose an array with fewer dots compared to one with more dots. Experimenters set up two boards showing various numbers of dots in a poolside setup. The dolphins were initially trained to choose the board with the fewer number of dots. This was done by rewarding the dolphin when it chose the board with the fewer number of dots. In the experimental trials, two boards were set up, and the dolphin would emerge from the water and point to one board. The dolphins chose the arrays with fewer dots at a rate much larger than chance, indicating they can differentiate between quantities. [117] a b Frasnelli, Elisa; Robert, Théo; Chow, Pizza Ka Yee; Scales, Ben; Gibson, Sam; Manning, Nicola; Philippides, Andrew O.; Collett, Thomas S.; Hempel de Ibarra, Natalie (2020). "Small and Large Bumblebees Invest Differently when Learning about Flowers". Current Biology. Elsevier BV. 31 (5): 1058–1064.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.062. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 33373638.

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