Sentences with phrase «animal behavior researchers»

According to leading animal behavior researchers and analysts, cats will rarely display the same kind of behavioral attachment and separation anxiety that is synonymous to man's most faithful buddy.

Evolutionary biologists and animal behavior researchers are searching out the genetic basis and molecular drivers of cooperative behaviors, as well as the physiological, environmental, and behavioral impetus for sociality.

University of Exeter animal behavior researcher Rob Heathcote.

Animal personality researchers have historically focused on individuals while ignoring the way they behave in groups, and collective behavior researchers have focused on groups while downplaying individual differences, according to University of St. Andrews animal behavior researcher Mike Webster, who was not involved in the work.

To get around some of these limitations, a team led by Rachael Shaw, an animal behavior researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, turned to a population of New Zealand North Island robins for a new round of experiments.

The results build on previous studies that show dogs can process nonverbal cues like the tone of someone's voice, says Victoria Ratcliffe, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Sussex, who was not involved in thestudy.

A team led by animal behavior researcher Bruna Bezerra, now at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, had been watching the marmoset group since 2001 in their northeast Brazil home, and the pair had been the dominant male and female since observations began.

Over at Business Insider, animal behavior researcher Julie Hecht pointed to some common signs of stress in dogs: turning their head away from the thing that's bothering them, showing the white parts of their eyes, and, as Askeland pointed out, pinning back their ears.

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Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

Stress can affect a wide range of physiologies and behaviors, and researchers are beginning to test whether the additions make the animals better models for depression — and, in the case of these particular fish — retinal regeneration.

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans.

And even when the researchers forced the neurons to fire in bursts, animals that had been given ketamine no longer showed depressionlike behaviors.

Because neural crest cells contribute to so many tissues in the body, altering their function could change an animal's behavior, appearance and biology, the researchers reasoned.

According to the Australian researchers, current apprehension about human - animal co-sleeping and bed sharing between parents and their children focuses too much on possible negative aspects or consequences, such as poor health, impaired functioning, the development of problematic behavior, and even sexual dysfunction.

Ingesting even small amounts of oil can interfere with the animals» normal behavior, researchers reported November 15 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.

From field studies of plants and animals, researchers have learned that habitat can influence morphology and behavior — particularly sexual selection — in ways that hasten or slow down speciation.

Biologists now think they understand why: In laboratory tests, torn bay leaves turned out to be very toxic to fleas, researchers reported last week at a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Carbondale, Illinois.

«Why these animals stayed together so long in Hood Canal is a mystery,» said John K. B. Ford, one of the world's leading researchers on orca behavior and a marine mammal scientist at the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.

With other researchers, he discovered that selecting for tamer animals carries with it a suite of unintended evolutionary consequences — ranging from changes in appearance to new behavior traits — known as domestication syndrome.

The researchers found that as the animals self - administered more MDPV per session, their use of the wheel declined significantly, indicating that the drug had made this normally rewarding behavior seem much less appealing.

The researchers then observed the animals» behavior as they were introduced to a variety of potential partners.

The eavesdropping is already helping researchers study the animals» movements and behavior.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

Researchers are taking another look at dirt eating and discovering that the behavior often provides people and animals with vital minerals and inactivates toxins from food and the environment.

«It is very likely that such coordinated feeding behaviors require practice and knowledge associated with a long - term relationship between animals,» the researchers write.

When researchers replaced a quarter of the water, wrestling and other aggressive behavior immediately increased as the fish sought to reestablish a hierarchy, they report in the current issue of Applied Animal Behavior behavior immediately increased as the fish sought to reestablish a hierarchy, they report in the current issue of Applied Animal Behavior Behavior Science.

This behavior quickly became a hallmark of consciousness to animal researchers, partly because it was so testable.

When the researchers subjected adolescent mice with the gene mutation to either social stress or caloric restriction, but not both, the animals exhibited little change in feeding behavior.

This suggests that ravens can not only differentiate between «fair» and «unfair» individuals, but they retain that ability for at least a month, the researchers write this month in Animal Behavior.

In the recent studies, researchers showed that this behavior happens for extensive periods of time at or near the seafloor, that it occurs in the presence of concentrations of sand lance (a preferred prey fish), and that the behavior is accompanied by the expansion of the animal's ventral (throat) pleats.

The study, «Modulating Behavior in C.elegans Using Electroshock and Antiepileptic Drugs,» just published in PLOS One, has led the researchers to build on the current animal models for inducing seizures via electroconvulsion in the genetically modifiable C.elegans that only has 302 brain cells called neurons.

At a presentation here this week at the 47th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, researchers described their observations of two types of duck: Lesser Scaups and Ruddy Ducks (pictured).

The Tufts / McLean research team, led by Niwako Ogata, BVSc, Ph.D., who was a behavior researcher at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and is now an assistant professor of animal behavior at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, examined a sample of 16 Dobermans.

For researchers working on animal models, it shows that the age of male mice can influence the behavior of the offspring, so this should be a consideration when they are used to mate.

At the outset of the experiment, the researchers tested the visual attention and anticipatory behavior of rats, and segregated the most impulsive animals.

Yet now researchers are learning that just as human quirks and temperaments shape our lives and the world around us, the behavior patterns of individual animals affect their role in their ecosystem, their prospects for survival, and, ultimately, their evolution.

Animals learned to move their eyeballs once every second, a completely internal timing feat made possible by the rhythmic behavior of small groups of nerve cells, researchers propose online October 30 in PLOS Biology.

Cameras worn safely by the animals are data - gathering tools that offer researchers unique insight into their behavior.

These questions are rarely asked, making it difficult to systematically analyze the evidence for animal prediction, the researchers concluded after studying 729 reports of abnormal animal behavior related to 160 earthquakes.

Its authors suggest a series of questions that researchers should use in analyzing the evidence that abnormal animal behavior predicts earthquakes.

Researchers have established a strong genetic component for addictive behaviors through studying animal models, including laboratory mice.

To shed light on the matter, researchers reviewed 180 publications that tackled abnormal animal behavior prior to earthquakes and analyzed them with respect to the animals» distance to earthquakes of certain magnitudes, foreshock activity, and the quality and length of the observations.

With regard to animals» earthquake prediction potential, researchers suggest that in future studies, perhaps a quantitative definition of «unusual or abnormal behavior» is needed, as well as actual explanations behind the change in behavior.

«We wanted to provide a forum for researchers to trade notes on best practices when assessing behaviors in healthy and diseased animal models,» explained Gill, who organized the event.

The researchers have succeeded in controlling animal behavior via optogenetic stimulation of f - VLEDs.

This inborn numerical sense reaches back millions of years, researchers say, and has been used by humans and animals to help guide everyday behaviors such as hunting for food.

Conclusions Overall researchers recognize that the exact expression of behaviors differ between humans and experimental animals.