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A non-memory-based functional neural framework for animal caching behavior [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe brain’s extraordinary abilities are often attributed to its capacity to learn and adapt. But memory has its limitations, especially when faced with tasks such as retrieving thousands of food items—a common behavior in scatter-hoarding animals.
Sharon Mordechay, Oren Forkosh
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Clinical case of animal hoarding – characterization and management of a new disorder
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Animal hoarding is characterized by hoarding of a large number of animals without providing minimum conditions of nutrition and sanitation, accompanied by lack of insight for the behavior and by social isolation.
L. Lopes +3 more
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Behavior and adoptability of hoarded cats admitted to an animal shelter
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2022 Objectives The aim of this study was to analyze the behavioral characteristics and success of adoption for previously hoarded cats. Methods Shelter records and post-adoption surveys were analyzed for hoarded cats ⩾6 months old at intake. A non-standard scoring system was used. Intake scores were allocated contemporaneously and socialization scores were
Linda S Jacobson +4 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 The seed germination schedule is a key factor affecting the food-hoarding behavior of animals and the seedling regeneration of plants. However, little is known about the behavioral adaptation of rodents to the rapid germination of acorns.
Mingming Zhang +6 more
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Observations of the foraging behavior and activity patterns of the Korean wood mouse, Apodemus peninsulae, in China, using infra-red cameras [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Apodemus peninsulae, a dominant rodent species in temperature forests of northeastern China, is a model animal to explore the ecological functions of reciprocal coevolution of animals and plants.
Dianwei Li +6 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 The present study assessed the identification of animal and object hoarding disorder cases by contact and mapping and the presence of animal protection programs in association with seven social–economic indicators of the metropolitan area of the ninth ...
Raphael Rolim de Moura +9 more
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Cat rabies in Brazil: a growing One Health concern
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 This review of human and cat rabies from 1986 to 2022 has shown mostly AgV3 variant in human cases with 29/45 (64.4%) reports including 23 from bats, four from cats, and two from unknown species, followed by 8/45 (17.8%) of AgV2 variant (all from dogs ...
Jonathan Santos de Lima +6 more
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Diversity, 2020 Although dispersal is critical to plant life history, the relationships between seed traits and dispersal success in animal-dispersed plants remain unclear due to complex interactions among the effects of seed traits, habitat structure, and disperser ...
Nathanael I. Lichti +2 more
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The mediating roles of disgust sensitivity and danger expectancy in relation to hand washing behaviour [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright © 2010 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive PsychotherapiesBackground: Recent interest in the role of vulnerability factors in obsessional washing has suggested that disgust sensitivity, danger expectancy and health anxiety may be ...
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Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder. [PDF]
, 2006 The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis.
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
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