Topic: discrimination ratio

In various situations, individuals can display different attitudes towards novelty. Sometimes individuals gravitate towards novelty while other times they avoid it. This is referred to as neophilia and neophobia respectively. Understanding these opposing attitudes towards novelty can elucidate various aspects of life, like adaptive behavior, memory, and anxiety, but first there need to be reliable paradigms. Recently, attention has been directed toward establishing such paradigms in birds. We administered two tasks assessing neophilia and neophobia in pigeons to measure both behaviors in the s