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Lab Animal, 2019 Researchers can’t sit their laboratory mice or fruit flies down and ask them how they’re feeling or why they’re behaving in a particular way. Instead, humans are left to observe and interpret the various clues their animals provide. Can machines help?
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THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR [PDF]
School Science and Mathematics, 1903 n ...
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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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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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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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Effect of Season on New Zealand White (NZW) Rabbits' Behaviorand Reproductive and productivePerformance [PDF]
Benha Veterinary Medical Journal, 2018 This work was carried out at the experimental animal center belonging to Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University through the period from July 2017 to the end of February 2018 to study the effect of season of year on behavior, reproductive and ...
Souad. A. Ahmed +3 more
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Calcineurin in Animal Behavior
Molecules and Cells, 2004 The conserved Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase calcineurin has been shown to be involved in numerous and diverse functions both at the cellular and organism level. Recent genetic and pharmacological studies in animals including C. elegans, Drosophila, Aplysia, rat and mice have also implicated calcineurin in behavior, particularly in the ...
Jin Il, Lee, Joohong, Ahnn
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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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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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