ES51CH21_Greggor ARjats.cls August 12, 2020 11:48 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics The Rules of Attraction: The Necessary Role of Animal Cognition in Explaining Conservation Failures and Successes Alison L. Greggor,1 Oded Berger-Tal,2 and Daniel T. Blumstein3 1Department of Recovery Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, California 92027, USA; email:
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[email protected] Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2020. 51:483–503 Keywords The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and conservation behavior, habituation, learning, memory, umwelt Systematics is online at ecolsys.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720- Abstract 103212 Integrating knowledge and principles of animal behavior into wildlife con- Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 2020.51. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Copyright © 2020 by Annual Reviews. servation and management has led to some concrete successes but has failed All rights reserved to improve conservation outcomes in other cases. Many conservation inter- ventions involve attempts to either attract or repel animals, which we refer Access provided by University of California - Los Angeles UCLA on 08/22/20. For personal use only. to as approach/avoidance issues. These attempts can be reframed as issues of manipulating the decisions animals make, which are driven by their per- ceptual abilities and attentional biases, as well as the value animals attribute to current stimuli and past learned experiences.