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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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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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Animals, 2023 This study analyzed trends of enthalpy and the temperature–humidity index (THI) over a period of 50 years in outer air, which lead to severe heat stress in turkeys.
Björn Sake +3 more
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Performance of Azure-winged magpies in Aesop’s fable paradigm
Scientific Reports, 2021 In this study, the improved Aesop’s fable paradigm—a series of experiments originally used to test whether some animals understand the causality associated with water replacement—was used to explore the cognitive ability of Azure-winged magpies ...
Yigui Zhang +3 more
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Adolescents care but don't feel responsible for farm animal welfare [PDF]
, 2015 Adolescents are the next generation of consumers with the potential to raise standards of farm animal welfare—to theirsatisfaction—if their preferences and concerns are translated into accurate market drivers and signals.
Abeyesinghe, S M +10 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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Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms: An Adaptive Gravity Model [PDF]
, 2015 The collective motion of groups of animals emerges from the net effect of the interactions between individual members of the group. In many cases, such as birds, fish, or ungulates, these interactions are mediated by sensory stimuli that predominantly ...
Gorbonos, Dan +5 more
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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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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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Interactive rhythms across species: The evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn-taking
, 2019 The study of human language is progressively moving toward comparative and interactive frameworks, extending the concept of turn‐taking to animal communication.
Greenfield, M., Ravignani, A., Verga, L.
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