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Landmark Use by Ghost Crab (Ocypode Quadrata) During Wayfinding in a Complex Maze.
Behavioural Processes 2024 April 5
Species of crab have been shown to spatially track and navigate to consequential. locations through different processes, such as path integration and landmark orienting. Few investigations examine their ability to wayfind in complex environments, like. mazes, with multiple intersections and how they may utilize specific features to benefit. this process. Spatial learning potentially would lend a fitness advantage to animals. living in complicated habitats, and ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) is a semiterrestrial. species that typically occupies extensive beach environments, which present many. navigational challenges. Despite their potential, there are currently no studies that. investigate forms of spatial cognition in these animals. To better diversify our. knowledge of this trait, the current research exposed ghost crab to a maze with seven. intersections. Animals were given multiple trials to learn the location of a reward. destination to a specific criterion proficiency. In one condition several landmarks were. distributed throughout the maze, and in another the environment was completely. empty. Results showed that ghost crab in the landmark present group were able to. learn the maze faster, they required significantly fewer trials to reach the learning. criterion than those in the landmark absent group. However, only approximately half of. the total sample met the learning criterion, indicating the maze was rather difficult. These findings are interpreted through theories of route learning that suggest animals. may navigate by establishing landmark-turn associations. Such processes have. implications for the cognitive ability of ghost crab, and spatial learning in this species. may support the notion of convergent evolution for this trait.
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