Data and code for: Captive jays exhibit reduced problem-solving performance compared to wild conspecifics

These files include the data used in this manuscript, and the code necessary to reproduce all analyses and figures.

The excel file has 5 tabs. The first is the raw data on subject interactions with the puzzle box during trials. Second is the data reformatted for the survival analysis. The third tab lists all dominance interactions at a monopolizable food source. The fourth tab gives the boldness scores (closest approach and order of first approach to a novel object), when known, for subjects in this experiment. The last tab lists all of the IDs of Mexican Jays in this population, and their flock membership for the analysis of dominance ratings.

Raw data column details:
Flock - Identifier of the social group from which each subject came
Treatment - C refers to subjects in captivity, F refers to subjects in the wild
ID - The unique identifier for the subject, based on color band combinations
Trial - Which trial (max of 6) these interaction data come from
Seconds w/in 2m - the amount of time in seconds that the subject spent within 2m of the puzzle box on that trial
Attempts - The number of times a subject touched a door on the puzzle box with its beak during that trial
Door - The label describing which type of door on the puzzle box
Successes - the number of times a subject successfully opened a closed door
A, B, C, D - These are the labels for the 4 different door types, and the numbers in these columns indicate the number of times that door type was opened on that trial.

Survival analysis column details where different from above:
Solve - Whether it was the first (1) or last (3) solve. Or if the subject did not solve that door (0)
Trial - the trial in which the solve occurred
Time (min) - Minute within the trial that solve occurred
Adjusted - Amount of time until the solve accounting for multiple trials

We used the R Markdown format to present our code for these data. The code to conduct analyses is annotated and ordered in the R Markdown file.