Publications by authors named "Shaw Ting Kwok"
The arapaima () is one of the largest freshwater fish species, known to exceed 3 m in total length. It is listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN. is native to the Amazon River basin where they are an important food source.
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- Alliance formation is vital for male dolphins, with long-lasting partnerships impacting their social dynamics.
- Researchers introduced new cognitive devices for cooperative play among groups of dolphins, allowing for more complex interactions.
- The dolphins successfully manipulated these devices, showcasing high rates of cooperative behavior and emphasizing their social organization and teamwork.
Due to the diversity of the phenomenon, dolphin cooperation has attracted considerable research interest in both wild populations and those under human care. Dolphins cooperate in various contexts, including group hunting, alloparental care, social learning, social play and alliance formation for securing mates. This investigation focused on the effect of group size and partner choice in a cooperative task using systematic group testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial living, long lifespan and advanced cognitive skills provided favourable conditions for the development of pro-social behaviours and cooperative activities in cetacean. Dolphins have been observed to collaborate for various purposes, finding food, finding mates or raising and teaching younger individuals. This study investigated the potential impact of demographic factors (sex and age), social factors (relatedness and group size), and individual experience in a cooperative problem solving task.
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- Perceptual and behavioral asymmetry has been noted in various vertebrate and invertebrate species, dating back over 500 million years.
- Marine mammals, including dolphins, show hemispheric lateralization in activities like foraging and problem-solving.
- A study on a female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin revealed no accuracy difference between binocular and monocular vision, but she displayed a clear left eye advantage in reaction time and exhibited distinct movement pattern preferences during stimulus discrimination.