Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Ravens attribute visual access to unseen competitors

  • Thomas Bugnyar,
  • Stephan A. Reber,
  • Cameron Buckner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10506
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Theory of Mind experiments in animals have not previously discounted the possibility that individuals follow their competitors′ behavioural cues. Here, Bugnyar et al.show that ravens consider the possibility that they are being watched when caching food, even when they cannot see a conspecific competitor.