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Food‐solicitation displays in nestling birds: still begging for answers
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nestling begging is a key model for understanding animal communication and parent–offspring conflict. Dynamic begging displays are often interpreted as costly, honest signals of need, with honesty maintained by viability costs, as proposed in Godfray's influential signalling model.
Daniel Parejo‐Pulido, Tomás Redondo
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, 2016 This chapter examines the environment in which the field of applied ethology emerged. Through brief vignettes about the lives and contributions of prominent scientists and other influential figures, we provide a historical context for today's celebration
Sandilands, V; id_orcid +3 more
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Journal of Big History, 2018 The aim of this article is to set a macro-historical narrative concerning the emergence of warfare and social ethics as symplesiomorphic features in the lineage of Homo sapiens.
Daniel Barreiros
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Animals, 2021 Assistance dogs must manage stress efficiently because they are involved in challenging tasks. Their welfare is currently a fundamental issue. This preliminary study aimed to compare assistance dogs (AD; n = 22) with pet dogs (PD; n = 24), using blood ...
Manuel Mengoli +8 more
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Let's Talk About Bone Cylinders. Taphonomy of Carnivores and Humans
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACTBone cylinders are a distinctive structure predominantly produced by durophagous carnivoran species during the consumption of long bones, in which the diaphyseal canal remains intact while both epiphyses are removed or consumed. This study evaluates the significance of this morphology, traditionally attributed to extant and extinct hyena ...
Darío Herranz‐Rodrigo
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Collective movement of social groups requires coordination between individuals. When cohesion is imperative, consensus must be reached, and specific individuals may exert disproportionate influence during decision-making.
Davide Montanari +4 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.In this study, we developed AnuraSearch, an open‐source classifier for 11 Ukrainian amphibian species, by repurposing the avian BirdNET algorithm via transfer learning to process over 18,000 h of autonomous acoustic recordings. Although the model demonstrated high precision and successfully reconstructed detailed seasonal and diel vocal activity ...
Vasylyna Strus +5 more
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Shape and texture biases in dogs’ generalization of trained objects
Scientific ReportsShape bias, the tendency to link the meaning of words to the shape of objects, is a widely investigated phenomenon, but the extent to which it is linked to vocabulary acquisition and/or to tool using is controversial.
Claudia Fugazza +5 more
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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, 1976 White, Norman F. Ethology and psychiatry. Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 1974, p.
Sigelmann, Elida
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