Animal behavior: Innovation in the city
Behavioral innovations may help animals cope with new environments, but how such behaviors start is hard to capture. A new study reports the innovation and transmission of a new foraging culture in an urban parrot.
Beck, KB, Firth, JA
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Assessing Mongolian gerbil emotional behavior: effects of two shock intensities and response-independent shocks during an extended inhibitory-avoidance task [PDF]
Despite step-down inhibitory avoidance procedures that have been widely implemented in rats and mice to study learning and emotion phenomena, performance of other species in these tasks has received less attention.
Camilo Hurtado-Parrado +11 more
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Smell of green leaf volatiles attracts white storks to freshly cut meadows
Finding food is perhaps the most important task for all animals. Birds often show up unexpectedly at novel food sources such as freshly tilled fields or mown meadows.
Martin Wikelski +8 more
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Bacterial Burden in the Air of Indoor Riding Arenas
Airway diseases in horses are often multifactorial and have a strong environmental background because diseased horses react to inhaled agents. In this study, the air quality of closed riding arenas was analyzed monthly in four riding arenas over the ...
Torsten Lühe +5 more
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Laparotomy and burst suppression-inducing sevoflurane induce subtle long-term changes in anxiety and social behavior in late postnatal mice [PDF]
Background Despite strong preclinical evidence, clinical studies have reported minimal effects of early anesthesia on neurodevelopment. This discrepancy may be due to limitations of preclinical studies, including the absence of clear criteria for ...
Tao Zhang +10 more
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Animal welfare is one of the most challenging issues in modern farm animal husbandry. Animal welfare indicators can be used to monitor welfare on farms or at slaughterhouses, with footpad dermatitis (FPD) being one of the most important indicators used ...
Jenny Stracke +5 more
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Beach balls: Assessing frustration tolerance in young children using a computerized task
Frustration tolerance is a skill related to emotional regulation processes and is important insofar as it affects people's social relationships and even health. Low levels of frustration tolerance in children have been associated with a greater number of
Annabel Jiménez-Soto +4 more
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Functional and Morphological Changes in the Olfactory Epithelium of Mouse Models With Upper Respiratory Inflammation and Olfactory Dysfunction [PDF]
Objectives This study evaluated behavioral test results and histological findings in murine models of allergic rhinitis (AR), chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), and drug-induced anosmia, comparing outcomes among groups.
Shin Hyuk Yoo +6 more
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Background FoxP transcription factors play crucial roles for the development and function of vertebrate brains. In humans the neurally expressed FOXPs, FOXP1, FOXP2, and FOXP4 are implicated in cognition, including language.
Adriana Schatton +4 more
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Animal Studies of Addictive Behavior [PDF]
It is increasingly recognized that studying drug taking in laboratory animals does not equate to studying genuine addiction, characterized by loss of control over drug use. This has inspired recent work aimed at capturing genuine addiction-like behavior in animals.
Ahmed H., Serge +2 more
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