Lateralization in feeding is food type specific and impacts feeding success in wild birds.

ABSTRACT: Current research suggests that hemispheric lateralization has significant fitness consequences. Foraging, as a basic survival function, is a perfect research model to test the fitness impact of lateralization. However, our understanding of lateralized feeding behavior is based predominantly on laboratory studies, while the evidence from wild animals in natural settings is limited. Here we studied visual lateralization in yellow-footed green pigeons (Treron phoenicoptera) feeding in the wild. We aimed to test whether different types of food objects requiring different searching strategies elicit different eye/hemisphere biases. When feeding on relatively large, uniformly colored food objects (mahua flowers) which can be present or absent in the viewed patch, the majority of pigeons r

SUBMITTER: Karenina K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8820115 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature