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Peer Pressure: Do the Fitness Benefits of Animal Behavioral Traits Vary With Conspecific Density?

Ethology, EarlyView.
We show that the activity of juvenile North American red squirrels influenced their survival in a density‐dependent manner: more active individuals had higher survival under high conspecific density, whereas less active juveniles had higher survival under low densities. Juveniles who were both more active and aggressive were more likely to survive. Our
Deborah Ho, April Robin Martinig, Andrew G. McAdam, Stan Boutin, Jeffrey E. Lane, Ben Dantzer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to calls before hatching affects the post-hatching behaviour of domestic chickens

Royal Society Open Science
The soundscape experienced by animals early in life can affect their behaviour later in life. For birds, sounds experienced in the egg can influence how individuals learn to respond to specific calls post-hatching. However, how early acoustic experiences
Gabriella E. C. Gall, Megan Letherbarrow, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Andrew N. Radford, Joah R. Madden   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contributions of Positive Social Interactions to Vocal Learning and Social Cohesion

Ethology, EarlyView.
Birdsong produced in non‐breeding flocks is shaped by a dynamic interplay between intrinsic reward and social feedback. Studies in cowbirds and starlings suggest that positive affective states and opioid‐mediated reward promote song practice, while responses from flock mates, potentially reinforced by dopaminergic mechanisms, refine species‐typical ...
Lauren V. Riters, Alyse N. Maksimoski
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Determination of Maternal Behaviour in Pigs

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In sows, maternal behaviour is a commercially important trait which affects sow and piglet welfare and the quality and safety of human‐animal interactions, especially if free farrowing of sows without crates is in place. The aim of this study was to evaluate maternal behaviour and to estimate its quantitative genetic parameters in Swiss ...
Nicole Maffezzini, Negar Khayatzadeh, Simon Turner, Rainer Roehe, Ricardo Pong‐Wong, Richard B. D’Eath   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transmission of Urgency Levels in the Alarm Calls of the Oriental Reed Warbler

Ecology and Evolution
Many animals communicate predator‐related information to conspecifics through alarm calls that exhibit acoustic structural variations encoding key parameters such as predator type, body size, and urgency of danger.
Qindong Zhou, Laikun Ma, Wei Guo, Jiaojiao Wang, Longwu Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effects of playbacks of anthropogenic noise on the anti‐predator behaviour of Pacific sand lance, Ammodytes personatus

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Noise from human activities has increased and been shown to negatively impact marine animals. Marine mammals and fish are vulnerable to anthropogenic noise because they rely on sound to communicate, find food, avoid predators and sense their environment. Forage fish are small schooling pelagic fish, important to many predators and instrumental
Meredith A. V. White, Francis Juanes, Patrick D. O'Hara, Jose Tavera, Matthew R. Baker, Douglas F. Bertram, Adam Summers, David A. Fifield, Nora V. Carlson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
wiley   +1 more source

CASARS Recommender Systems: A Systematic Review on Methods, Datasets, Limitations, and Future Directions

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2026.
This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review on recommender systems that simultaneously incorporate the context‐aware and session‐aware recommendation paradigms (CASARS). To provide an overview of this specific research area, our review investigated: (1) which techniques have been employed to model contextual preference from the ...
Matheus Henrique Cecilio Leme, Vinicius Sylvestre Simm, Douglas Rorie Tanno, Marcos Aurelio Domingues   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Audio Information Manipulation on the Perceived Atmosphere in Telepresence Systems for Remote Work

IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 21, Issue 11, Page 1675-1683, November 2026.
Remote work, which enables employees to work from home, has emerged as a prominent working style in recent years. However, unlike traditional office environments where the ‘atmosphere of the space’ is naturally shared, remote work relies on screen‐based communication, making it challenging to convey this atmosphere.
Ariyasu Ando, Yoshihiro Konagaya, Issei Hashimoto, Akihito Kobayashi, Kent Nagumo, Akio Nozawa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source