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Decision-making behaviors: weighing ethology, complexity, and sensorimotor compatibility [PDF]
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2018 Rodent decision-making research aims to uncover the neural circuitry underlying the ability to evaluate alternatives and select appropriate actions. Designing behavioral paradigms that provide a solid foundation to ask questions about decision-making computations and mechanisms is a difficult and often underestimated challenge.
Juavinett, Ashley L +2 more
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Revista de Medicina Veterinaria, 2007 The following document arises from the study, reflection of the educational and professional practice of its authors, in order to socialize arguments, concepts and methodologies offered by the sciences of the behavior animal (among them the ethology), to
María Teresa Uribe Mallarino +2 more
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Big Behavioral Data: Psychology, Ethology and the Foundations of Neuroscience [PDF]
Nature Neuroscience, 2014 AbstractBehavior is a unifying organismal process through which genes, neural function, anatomy and environment converge and interrelate. Here we review the current state and sketch the future impact of accelerating advances in technology for behavioral studies, focusing on rodents as an exemplar.
Gomez-Marin, Alex +4 more
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Animals, 2023 Vitality is the vigor newborn animals exhibit during the first hours of life. It can be assessed by a numerical score, in which variables, such as heart rate, respiratory rate, mucous membranes’ coloration, time the offspring took to stand up, and ...
Cécile Bienboire-Frosini +9 more
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Abandonment of dogs in Latin America: Strategies and ideas [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2021 In this article, we gathered information from postgraduate theses and scientific articles published in several databases using inclusion criteria that had been made in Latin America, in countries with similar economic conditions, and also in the USA to ...
Daniel Mota-Rojas +4 more
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Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates [PDF]
, 2016 The intensity of biotic interactions varies around the world, in such a way that mortality risk imposed by natural enemies is usually higher in the tropics.
Bueno, Pedro P. +3 more
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Abnormal Behavior of Zebrafish Mutant in Dopamine Transporter Is Rescued by Clozapine
iScience, 2019 Summary: Dopamine transporter (SLC6A3) deficiency causes infantile Parkinson disease, for which there is no effective therapy. We have explored the effects of genetically deleting SLC6A3 in zebrafish.
Guangliang Wang +11 more
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Animals, 2023 Oxytocin is a key hormone for parturition and maternal traits in animals. During the peripartum period, the levels of endogenous oxytocin dictate physiological events such as myometrial contractions, prostaglandin production with the subsequent increase ...
Míriam Marcet-Rius +8 more
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Etologia humana: o exemplo do apego Human ethology: the attachment example
Psico-USF, 2004 O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar, de maneira didática, a perspectiva evolucionária no estudo do comportamento humano. Para isso, apresenta-se a etologia, apontando algumas variações nas perspectivas de estudo da área. A etologia surgiu com o objetivo
Plínio Marco De Toni +3 more
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EFFECTS OF SEX, ENVIRONMENT, AND CONDITION ON THE MUSKING BEHAVIOR OF SYMPATRIC GARTERSNAKES (THAMNOPHIS SPP.) [PDF]
, 2014 Despite an abundance of studies documenting antipredator and defensive behaviors of gartersnakes (genus Thamnophis), few have quantitatively examined musking, a widely utilized antipredator tactic.
Bertolatus, David +3 more
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