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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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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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Virginia Woolf's, The Waves, desire and ethology
, 2021 This paper examines the particular concept of ethology developed by Deleuze and Guattari through a reading of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Spinoza’s ‘Definitions of the Affects’ (in the Ethics) and the work of Jacob von Uexkull.
Uhlmann, Anthony (R8739)
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Makowicz and Schlupp 2015 - Ethology
, 2020 Makowicz AM, Schlupp I. (2015) Effects of female-female aggression in a sexual/unisexual species complex.
Amber Makowicz (6744164) +1 more
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
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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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On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A review of behavioural studies using home‐cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and female animals. This bias could influence the outcomes of biomedical research.
Maša Čater +12 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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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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Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.Bee pollen samples from China and Spain exhibited in vitro antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and digestive enzyme inhibitory activities due to their composition, suggesting their potential as a nutraceutical or functional ingredient to help counteract oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and metabolic disorders.
Adriana Maite Fernández‐Fernández +9 more
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