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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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The effect of an interventional program based on the Theory of Ethology on infant breastfeeding competence [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Neonatology, 2014
Introduction: according to the ethology theory mother infant separation immediately after birth can interfere with the infants innate behaviors for the initiation of breastfeeding.
aghdas karimi, Sepideh Bagheri, Talat Khadivzadeh, Khadijeh Mirzaii Najmabadi   +3 more
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What is Philosophical Ethology?

Humanimalia, 2017
In this paper, Marchesini engages first of all with both traditional and contemporary accounts of nonhuman subjectivity in order to show the untenability of such explanations based either upon an anthropomorphic “projection” of the human onto the ...
Roberto Marchesini
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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On the Face of It: No Differential Sensitivity to Internal Facial Features in the Dog Brain

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Dogs are looking at and gaining information from human faces in a variety of contexts. Next to behavioral studies investigating the topic, recent fMRI studies reported face sensitive brain areas in dogs' temporal cortex. However, these studies used whole
Dóra Szabó, Anna Gábor, Anna Gábor, Márta Gácsi, Márta Gácsi, Tamás Faragó, Enikő Kubinyi, Ádám Miklósi, Ádám Miklósi, Attila Andics, Attila Andics   +10 more
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Genetic and phenotypic variation in wood tiger moths from the Caucasus: insights into male warning color variation

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Coloration serves several fitness‐related functions, including thermoregulation, immunity, social signaling, sexual selection, and predator avoidance. Consequently, color polymorphism can have a significant impact on a species’ interactions with its environment, including its relationships with predators, prey, and potential mates. The wood tiger moth (
Juan A. Galarza, Ossi Nokelainen, Melanie N. Brien, Cristina Ottocento, Bibiana Rojas, Janne K. Valkonen, Tamar Chunashvili, Tõnis Tasane, Chris D. Jiggins, Johanna Mappes   +9 more
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Domestication and exposure to human social stimuli are not sufficient to trigger attachment to humans: a companion pig-dog comparative study

Scientific Reports
Dogs exhibit human-analogue attachment to their owners, with similar function and mechanisms to that of infant-mother bond, but its origin is unclear. Comparative studies on socialised wolves and dogs emphasise genetic influence in dogs' preparedness for
Anna Gábor, Paula Pérez Fraga, Márta Gácsi, Linda Gerencsér, Attila Andics   +4 more
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Modeling Skin Mark Temporal Variations to Estimate the Sex of Delphinids with Low Sexual Dimorphism: Implications for Management and Conservation

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This work aimed to apply the principles of skin mark analysis to a cetacean species to build a sex‐discrimination model exclusively based on photographic material. Relevant differences between sexes emerged in markings, with males presenting more social, aggression‐related, and fishing‐related marks overall, and a stronger tendency of mark accumulation
Alice Turchi, Giulia Pedrazzi, Alex Mattiussi, Maria S. Labriola, Daniele Petrone, Sofia Rinalduzzi, Giancarlo Giacomini, Daniela Silvia Pace   +7 more
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Fish welfare in a changing world: New developments and current challenges

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The welfare of non‐human animals is central to ethical discussions on animal use, with increasing attention to fish welfare across research, aquaria, aquaculture, and fisheries. This paper reviews current theoretical approaches to animal welfare and recent advances in defining and assessing fish welfare since the seminal paper by Huntingford ...
Sonia Rey Planellas, João L. Saraiva, Eliane Gonçalves‐de‐Freitas, Pablo Arechavala‐Lopez, Bernice Bovenkerk, Michael Breen, Steven J. Cooke, Martin Føre, Lene Northwood, Lars Helge Stien, Sunil Kadri, Chris Noble, Jonatan Nilsson, Fernando Rodriguez, Cosme Salas, Peter Sandøe, Hans van de Vis   +16 more
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