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Learning and animal movement
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Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the
ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject
is rooted firmly in psychology, including a distinct terminology. We contrast this psychological origin of learning with the taskoriented perspective on learning that has emerged from the field of artificial intelligence. We review conceptual frameworks that
characterize the role of learning in movement, discuss emerging trends, and summarize recent developments in the analysis of
movement data. We also discuss the relative advantages of different modeling approaches for exploring the learning-movement
interface, including techniques gleaned from the psychological and machine learning fields. We explore in depth how individual
and social modalities of learning can matter to the ecology of animal movement, and highlight how diverse kinds of field studies,
ranging from translocation efforts to manipulative experiments, can provide critical insight into the learning process in animal
movement. -
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- 2020-06-20
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- Article (Draft / Submitted)