Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101921

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140101921

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The benefits of sociality: understanding the relationship between cooperation, cognition and fitness. Cooperation may present unique cognitive challenges. Individuals perform behaviours that provide fitness benefits to others, exposing themselves to risk. The need to monitor the behaviour of group members, recognise suitable cooperative partners, and make corresponding behavioural adjustments to maximize the benefits of cooperation, may therefore be an important driver of social evolution. The relevance of understanding the relationship between cognition and cooperation is in how it affects the fitness of individuals and the stability of cooperation. This project aims to unveil this relationship by conducting one of the first comprehensive studies of the selective benefits of cognitive ability in a wild, cooperative bird species.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 30-06-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $400,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Life Histories | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology | Decision Making

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Decision Making | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Life Histories

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