Publications by authors named "Athanasios Sassalos"
Article Synopsis
- Cognition is crucial for animals to adapt to their environments, but the ecological factors influencing its evolution are unclear.
- Researchers tested 13 species of lacertid lizards on various cognitive tasks and examined the link between their performance and ecological variables like resource availability and habitat complexity.
- While cognitive abilities varied among species, these differences did not strongly correlate with their ecological conditions or life history, except that species in more variable environments showed reduced behavioral flexibility, possibly due to energy limitations.
