reputation capital in rodentia
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Mon Nov 26 19:40:28 PST 2001
They did no such thing. In order for 'reputation' to happen in the
context of human society one would have to prove that squirrels have a
sense of 'I'. I'll leave the current research and a few minutes of
personal time with a rodent speak for that aspect.
Further, correlation <> reputation.
For example, how long after a given squirrel dedides to ignore a
particular alarm cry does the alarm cry still work? One day, two? A week?
More importantly, how many squirrels on average does a squirrel ask before
it ignores the cry?
Crap study, crap interpretation.
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, David Honig wrote:
> Ground squirrels maintain reputations. Scientists played
> back alarm calls both with (to enhance) and without (to
> degrade) different individuals' calls. After 10 false
> alarms, that call was ignored; but the high S/N call
> caused alarms even without the threat (a stuffed badger)
> being present.
>
> J Hare, B Atkins, Behav Ecol & Sociobio
> reported in Sci News 160 p 312
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