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A glimpse at Ethology in Latin America [PDF]
, 2021 The state of the art of Ethology in five Latin America countries is briefly presented here. The overall outlook regarding research laboratories and themes is promising: the community is numerous, active and there are topics addressing all aspects of ...
Ferrari, Héctor Ricardo +10 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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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
Shany Dror +3 more
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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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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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