Question.4513 - Re-teach a concept with an illustrationAs practitioners of animal behavior it will be important for you to explain concepts in animal cognition to other people. As a way of reviewing some of what we have covered at the half way point in this course, you will create and post an illustration of a topic we have covered. I am intentionally choosing the vague term 'illustration' because I want this to be an opportunity to bring creativity and content, together. You can create a drawing and photograph it, make a powerpoint slide, use a mind mapping tool, build an infographic - use whatever medium you like best. The objective is to create a diagram or picture with minimal text to teach a concept. For example, here is a diagram and claymation illustration of a test of episodic-like memory in scrub jays and either could be used to help explain the concept to another person. A cartoon of the procedure used to test episodic-like memory in western scrub-jays. Birds in the 'degrade' group cache perishable wax worms and non-perishable peanuts (orange), which they are allowed to recover at a later date. If a short time has elapsed between caching and recovery then their preferred food items, the worms, are still fresh (yellow) and the birds should prefer to recover the worms. But if a long time has elapsed between caching and recovery then the worms will have decayed (brown) and the birds should prefer to recover the peanuts.A cartoon of the procedure used to test episodic-like memory in western scrub-jays. Birds in the 'degrade' group cache perishable wax worms and non-perishable peanuts (orange), which they are allowed to recover at a later date. If a short time has elapsed between caching and recovery then their preferred food items, the worms, are still fresh (yellow) and the birds should prefer to recover the worms. But if a long time has elapsed between caching and recovery then the worms will have decayed (brown) and the birds should prefer to recover the peanuts.A cartoon of the procedure used to test episodic-like memory in western scrub-jays. Birds in the 'degrade' group cache perishable wax worms and non-perishable peanuts (orange), which they are allowed to recover at a later date. If a short time has elapsed between caching and recovery then their preferred food items, the worms, are still fresh (yellow) and the birds should prefer to recover the worms. But if a long time has elapsed between caching and recovery then the worms will have decayed (brown) and the birds should prefer to recover the peanuts.A cartoon of the procedure used to test episodic-like memory in western scrub-jays. Birds in the 'degrade' group cache perishable wax worms and non-perishable peanuts (orange), which they are allowed to recover at a later date. If a short time has elapsed between caching and recovery then their preferred food items, the worms, are still fresh (yellow) and the birds should prefer to recover the worms. But if a long time has elapsed between caching and recovery then the worms will have decayed (brown) and the birds should prefer to recover the peanuts.

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