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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND WELL-BEING SYMPOSIUM: Interaction between coping style/personality, stress, and welfare: Relevance for domestic farm animals.

Journal of Animal Science, 2016
This paper will argue that understanding animal welfare and the individual vulnerability to stress-related disease requires a fundamental understanding of functional individual variation as it occurs in nature as well as the underlying neurobiology and ...
Jaap M. Koolhaas, C. V. Reenen
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The Effects of Radionuclides on Animal Behavior

2010
Concomitant with the expansion of the nuclear industry, the concentrations of several pollutants, radioactive or otherwise, including uranium, caesium, cadmium and cobalt, have increased over the last few decades. These elemental pollutants do exist in the environment and are a threat to many organisms.
Alexandre Bouron, Alexandre Bouron, Christelle Adam-Guillermin, Béatrice Gagnaire, Philippe Lestaevel   +4 more
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Survey of animal welfare, animal behavior, and animal ethics courses in the curricula of AVMA Council on Education-accredited veterinary colleges and schools.

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2016
OBJECTIVE To explore the extent to which veterinary colleges and schools accredited by the AVMA Council on Education (COE) have incorporated specific courses related to animal welfare, behavior, and ethics. DESIGN Survey and curriculum review. SAMPLE All
C. Shivley, F. Garry, L. Kogan, T. Grandin   +3 more
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Behavioral Animation of Crowds

2007
One of the important characteristics of behavioral animation is its ability to reduce the workload on the animators. This is achieved by letting a behavioral model automatically take care of the low-level details of the animation, freeing the animator to concentrate on the big picture.
Soraia Raupp Musse, Daniel Thalmann
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Humans, Animals, and ‘Animal Behavior’

1983
Attitudes to nonhuman animals and to ‘animal behavior’ in human animals are perplexingly entangled, and both utilitarian and Stoic theories of morality are vitiated by failure to understand animal behavior and motivation. The discovery that nonhuman, like human, animals are subject to ethical constraints can provide the basis for a morality that allows
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Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

Science, 2012
Feedbacks between microbiomes and their hosts affect a range of animal behaviors.
Nicole M. Gerardo, Mónica Medina, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, David W. Inouye, David W. Inouye, Joao B. Xavier   +5 more
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Animal Behavior

Animal behaviour refers to the physical expression of bodily movements that result from an internal drive or motivation. A motivation is caused by a real or perceived need and performance of a behaviour that leads to this need being met will ordinarily reduce the motivation to perform the behaviour, at least temporarily.
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Animal Behavior: A Continuing Synthesis

Annual Review of Psychology, 1993
INTRODUCTION 676 The Historical Synthesis of Animal Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676 Current Status of the Synthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 677 A Reconsideration of the Synthesis . . . . . . . .
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Behavior Genetics and the Domestication of Animals

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2014
Across species, a similar suite of traits tends to develop in response to domestication, including modifications in behavior. Reduced fear and increased stress tolerance were central in early domestication, and many domestication-related behaviors may have developed as traits correlated to reduced fear.
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Animal Behavior Case of the Month

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2022
Sun-A, Kim, Melissa J, Bain
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