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Nature 445, 825-826 (22 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445825a; Published online 21 February 2007
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Animal Behaviour: Planning for breakfast
Sara J. Shettleworth1
Abstract
It is commonly believed that planning for the future is a skill unique to humans. Could other animals, even those as evolutionarily distant as western scrub-jays, share this skill with us?
Can it ever be said that animals plan ahead? Animals do show behaviour that prepares them for the future, but in general that behaviour reflects unlearned or conditioned responses to predictive cues.
- Sara J. Shettleworth is in the Departments of Psychology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3G3, Canada.
Email: shettle@psych.utoronto.ca
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