| Title: |
Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool |
| Authors: |
Bauer, Gordon B.; Cook, Peter F.; Harley, Heidi E.; Bruck, Jason; Cosentino, Mel; Deutsch, Charles J.; Erdsack, Nicola; Fellner, Wendi; Gunnars, Tabitha; Manitzas Hill, Heather; Kumar, Sonia V.; Lilley, Malin K.; McHugh, Katherine A.; Moore, Jennifer; Moron, Juliana R.; Ravignani, Andrea; Reep, Roger L.; Rycyk, Athena M.; Sayigh, Laela S.; Szegedi, Anikó; Toms, Christina; Wells, Randall S. |
| Contributors: |
Bauer, Gordon B.; Cook, Peter F.; Harley, Heidi E.; Bruck, Jason; Cosentino, Mel; Deutsch, Charles J.; Erdsack, Nicola; Fellner, Wendi; Gunnars, Tabitha; Manitzas Hill, Heather; Kumar, Sonia V.; Lilley, Malin K.; Mchugh, Katherine A.; Moore, Jennifer; Moron, Juliana R.; Ravignani, Andrea; Reep, Roger L.; Rycyk, Athena M.; Sayigh, Laela S.; Szegedi, Anikó; Toms, Christina; Wells, Randall S. |
| Publisher Information: |
John Wiley and Sons Inc; Hoboken (USA) |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Sapienza Università di Roma: CINECA IRIS |
| Subject Terms: |
animal cognition; animal welfare; cetacean; conservation; marine mammal; pinniped; sirenians |
| Description: |
Cognition is an animal's real-time adaptation system for responding to change. Rapid environmental change, often anthropo- genic, is expanding the range and severity of challenges confronting wild animals. Effective conservation requires a multifaceted approach that includes animals' capacities. Large-brained, long-lived animals such as marine mammals often have extensive ca- pability to adaptively modify their behavior due to their cognition, which comprises the mechanisms of information acquisition, processing, and flexible action. Consequently, current behavior need not be a final predictor of future behavior for these animals. This flexibility provides an underutilized and under examined point of leverage for humans interested in improving life out- comes for wild animals. In this team-written, interdisciplinary paper, we argue that application of cognitive approaches may fa- cilitate many conservation efforts directed toward marine mammals. Starting with a workshop on this topic at the 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, scientists representing a wide range of disciplinary expertise addressed eight dif- ferent conservation concerns for six marine mammal species and provided potential cognitive explanations of and interventions. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:001703692900001; volume:42; issue:1; numberofpages:29; journal:MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE; https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1761636 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/mms.70114 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1761636; https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.70114 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; license:Creative commons ; license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.2EB6EB19 |
| Database: |
BASE |