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Slides and information regarding the Applying Ethology webinar can be found ...
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Scientific Reports, 2023 The dog is a so far unique species to study interspecific communication and a promising evolutionary model for preverbal human communication. Recently cats were reported to show some similar skills to dogs.
Attila Salamon +4 more
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Human activity recognition of children with wearable devices using LightGBM machine learning
Scientific Reports, 2022 Human activity recognition (HAR) using machine learning (ML) methods has been a continuously developed method for collecting and analyzing large amounts of human behavioral data using special wearable sensors in the past decade. Our main goal was to find
Gábor Csizmadia +4 more
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Word learning dogs (Canis familiaris) provide an animal model for studying exceptional performance
Scientific Reports, 2021 Exceptional performance is present in various human activities but its origins are debated and challenging to study. We report evidence of exceptional performance and qualitative variation in learning object-names in dogs.
Claudia Fugazza +4 more
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Investigating responses to object-labels in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
Scientific Reports, 2023 Since the dawn of comparative cognitive research, dogs were suspected to possess some capacity for responding to human spoken language. Neuroimaging studies have supported the existence of relevant mechanisms, but convincing behavioral performance is ...
Hanna Kőszegi +5 more
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Porcine Health Management, 2022 Background The practice of mixing unfamiliar pigs on farms is common but results in fighting, welfare problems and performance issues. Pigs have different ways of resolving social conflicts, including aggressive and affiliative behaviours.
Míriam Marcet-Rius +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The prolonged lifespan of companion dogs has resulted in increased behavioural and physical challenges linked to old age. The development of behavioural tests to identify and monitor age-related differences has begun.
Patrizia Piotti +4 more
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From Ethology to Behavioral Biology [PDF]
, 2019 Understanding behavior has been a crucial aim for philosophers and scientists since Aristotle and, particularly, Charles Darwin. In the first half of the 20th century, a coherent scientific discipline–ethology–emerged as afield initially concerned ...
Taborsky, Michael, Michael Taborsky
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Dogs that have a vocabulary of object labels (Gifted Word Learner dogs—GWL dogs) have great potential as a comparative model for studying a variety of cognitive mechanisms. However, only a handful of studies, with a small sample size of 1 or 2 dogs, have
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Human-oriented referential communication has been evidenced not only in domestic but also in some wild species, however, the importance of domestication-unrelated species’ characteristics in the emergence of this capacity remains largely unexplored.
Paula Pérez Fraga +4 more
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