Phoresy by Pseudoscorpions [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Phoretic behavior involving a non-parasitic association of a larger animal by a smaller animal resulting in transportation is well-documented in some pseudoscorpions.
Nelson, Sigurd, Jr.
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Performance Evaluation of Neural Networks for Animal Behaviors Classification: Horse Gaits Case Study [PDF]
, 2016 The study and monitoring of wildlife has always been a subject of great interest. Studying the behavior of wildlife animals is a very complex task due to the difficulties to track them and classify their behaviors through the collected sensory ...
Cerezuela Escudero, Elena +6 more
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Monkeys fight more in polluted air
Scientific Reports, 2021 Air pollution is a global environmental problem, and its effects on human behavior, psychology, and health have been well studied. However, very few studies were done on if and how air pollution affects animal behavior, for example, social conflict. Many
Aichun Xu +4 more
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Does the Absence of Zoo Visitors during the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact Gorilla Behavior?
Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2022 Whether or not primates are behaviorally affected by the presence of visitors in a zoo setting is a question of great relevance to zoo animal well-being.
Mary Masman +3 more
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A theoretical framework for estimation of AUCs in complete and incomplete sampling designs. [PDF]
, 2009 Nonclinical in vivo animal studies have to be completed before starting clinical studies of the pharmacokinetic behavior of a drug in humans. The drug exposure in animal studies is often measured by the area under the concentration versus time curve (AUC)
Jaki, Thomas, Wolfsegger, Martin J.
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Social norms and farm animal protection [PDF]
, 2018 Social change is slow and difficult. Social change for animals is formidably slow and difficult. Advocates and scholars alike have long tried to change attitudes and convince the public that eating animals is wrong.
Delon, Nicolas
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Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of vocal turn-taking in zebra finches
Nature Communications, 2020 Control over when to initiate or withhold vocalizations is essential for vocal turn-taking. Here the authors investigate vocal interactions in zebra finches and show that inhibition within the premotor nucleus HVC plays an important role in the precise ...
Jonathan I. Benichov, Daniela Vallentin
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The Role of Ethological Observation for Measuring Animal Reactions to Biotelemetry Devices [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents a methodological approach used to assess the wearability of biotelemetry devices in animals. A detailed protocol to gather quantitative and qualitative ethological observations was adapted and tested in an experimental study of 13 cat
Mancini, Clara +2 more
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“Closer‐to‐home” strategy benefits juvenile survival in a long‐distance migratory bird
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Human‐induced changes in the climate and environment that occur at an unprecedented speed are challenging the existence of migratory species. Faced with these new challenges, species with diverse and flexible migratory behaviors may suffer less from ...
Yachang Cheng +3 more
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MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data
Movement Ecology, 2022 Background Bio-logging and animal tracking datasets continuously grow in volume and complexity, documenting animal behaviour and ecology in unprecedented extent and detail, but greatly increasing the challenge of extracting knowledge from the data ...
Andrea Kölzsch +13 more
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