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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]
PeerJ, 2017 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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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 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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Bacterial Burden in the Air of Indoor Riding Arenas
Agriculture, 2022 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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Animal Studies of Addictive Behavior [PDF]
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2012 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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Smell of green leaf volatiles attracts white storks to freshly cut meadows
Scientific Reports, 2021 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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Beach balls: Assessing frustration tolerance in young children using a computerized task
Acta Psychologica, 2022 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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Serotonin in Animal Cognition and Behavior [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is acknowledged as a major neuromodulator of nervous systems in both invertebrates and vertebrates. It has been proposed for several decades that it impacts animal cognition and behavior. In spite of a completely distinct organization of the 5-HT systems across the animal kingdom, several lines of evidence suggest ...
Giuseppe Di Giovanni +8 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]
Korean Journal of AnesthesiologyBackground 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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Temporal and spatial patterns of small vertebrate roadkill in a supercity of eastern China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 An assessment of animal roadkill can help develop road mitigation measures. This article is the first to report data on animal-vehicle collisions (AVCs) in Nanjing, a supercity in eastern China.
Qiong Wu +5 more
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Scaling and Intermittency in Animal Behavior [PDF]
, 1999 Scale-invariant spatial or temporal patterns and L\'evy flight motion have been observed in a large variety of biological systems. It has been argued that animals in general might perform L\'evy flight motion with power law distribution of times between ...
A Harnos +19 more
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