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Table 2

Convincing demonstrations of picture recognition in animals

Task	Nature of pictures	Species	Results	Reference
Matching vocalizations to facial portraits of familiar conspe-	Black-and-white photographs	Chimpanzee	Correct matching	Bauer and Philip [3]
cifics
Behavioural observations	Life-size colour slides	Sheep	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to images of conspe- cifics	Bouissou et al. [4]
Categorization of objects and their pictures into food and	Colour photographs	Olive baboons	Correct transfer occurs from objects to pictures	Bovet and Vau- clair [5]
non-food categories
Discrimination transfer from two objects to their pictures	Black-and-white photographs or drawings	Pigeon	Correct transfer occurs from objects to pictures	Cabe [10]
Behavioural observations	Black-and-white video images	Jumping spider	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to images of conspe- cifics, prey and heterospecific spiders	Clark and Uetz [11]
Acquisition of fear of snakes or of flowers by observation of	Colour video images	Rhesus monkey	Fear of snakes acquired but not fear of flowers	Cook and Mineka [12]
conspecifics
Matching various novel views of a conspecific	Colour slides	Long-tailed macaque	Correct matching	Dasser [14]
Categorization of mother-off- spring pairs or matching	Colour slides	Long-tailed macaque	Correct categorization or matching	Dasser [15]
mother to offspring
Matching a touched but unseen object to its photograph	Black-and-white and colour pho- tographs	Chimpanzee	Correct cross-modal matching	Davenport and Rogers [16]
Matching a touched but unseen object to various 2-D repre- sentations	Black-and-white and colour pho- tographs (life-size and half-size) and line drawings	Chimpanzee	Correct cross-modal matching	Davenport et al. [17]
Categorization of objects and pictures as spherical and non-	Black-and-white and colour pho- tographs or drawings	Pigeon	Correct transfer occurs from objects to pictures	Delius [26]
spherical objects
Behavioural observations	Colour video images	Domestic cockerel	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to predators	Evans and Marler [34]
Naming the represented objects in American Sign Language	Colour slides	Chimpanzee	Correct naming	Gardner and Gardner [38]
Matching pictures and imitating actions illustrated in pictures	Black-and-white films, photo- graphs, and line drawings	Chimpanzee	Correct matching and imitation	Hayes and Hayes [39]
Behavioural observations	Colour films	Squirrel monkey	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to predators, food, and humans	Herzog and Hopf [42]
Behavioural observations	Kodachrome II indoor films (BW or NB unspecified)	Lizard	Female choice of normal male displays	Jenssen [49]
Discrimination of right-side-up and upside-down orientations	Colour slides	Pigeon	Correct discrimination transfer to novel views	Jitsumori and Ohkubo [51]
of scenes
Spontaneous choice in a Y- maze between pictures	Life-size black-and-white photo- graphs	Sheep	Discrimination between human and sheep faces, between male and females conspecifics and between a trough with and without food	Kendrick et al. [54]
Behavioural observations	Life-size colour video images	Guppy	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to images of conspe- cifics	Kodric-Brown and Nicoletto [58]
Spontaneous choice between slides of conspecifics	Colour slides	Hamadryas baboon	Choices consistent with social context	Kyes and Cand- land [59]
Behavioural observations	Colour slides	Long-tailed macaque	Appropriate spontaneous re- sponses to pictures of gorillas and humans	Kyes et al. [60]
Reinforced attack of a pigeon target	Colour photographs and draw- ings	Pigeon	Attack of the target picture comparable to attack of a live	Looney and Cohen [62]

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