白鱀豚动作学习能力的初步研究

STUDY ON THE LEARNING CAPABILITY FOR A SERIES OF ACTIONS IN BAIJI

本文详细记述了一头雄性白豚对一系列简单动作，包括听声音、碰手、接受抚摸、侧身和仰躺等的学习和掌握过程，分析了白豚学习这些动作的一般规律。讨论了学习过程中白豚的某些心理现象。初步评价了白豚的记忆能力。

In this paper,a male Baiji(Lipotes vexillifer)was trained by the metliod ofoperant conditioning to learn a series of actions,including listening to sound,hand-touching,accepting stroke,lying on side,lying on back,etc.The general rules oflearning the above actions were analysed and some mental phenomena of the Baijiduring the iearning process were disscused.The Baiji had a strong ability for long-term memory and showed some cognitive ability in certain aspects.The metliod fortraining Baiji for some actions is useful for studying the learning capability of theBaiji.