Early quantity discrimination in the wild: first insights from juvenile great tits

Abstract Quantity discrimination is an important aspect of numerical cognition that is utilized across taxa in various ecological contexts, including foraging and predator avoidance. Recent research has identified that the developing young of several species possess spontaneous quantity discrimination abilities, though these are often limited compared with adults. These studies have been conducted exclusively in captivity using visual stimuli, and so there is a need for studies investigating qua