Sentences with phrase «behavioral biologist»

Behavioral biologists at the Messerli Research Institute at Vetmeduni Vienna have always known that dogs share food with one another.

So she and University of Chicago behavioral biologist Dario Maestripieri spent 2 years observing wild monkeys on the Puerto Rican island of Cayo Santiago.

«Wasps are massive and could crunch them, but on the other hand, ants are walking chemical factories,» says behavioral biologist Robert Jeanne of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

To do so, behavioral biologists used hand and verbal signals to ask a captive bottlenose dolphin, Merina, to retrieve either a toy or her calf, Windley, from a few meters away, in a seawater lagoon.

But behavioral biologist Gabriel Miller of San Diego Zoo Global in California, who conducted fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon for three summers during his postdoc at Harvard University, says that fieldwork is worth the hassle.

Meanwhile, behavioral biologist Henrik Brumm of the University of St. Andrews found that male nightingales have cranked up their mating calls as much as 14 decibels to remain audible over urban sounds.

Behavioral biologists Georgia Mason and Ros Clubb of the University of Oxford, U.K., reasoned that how well animals adapt to zoo life might vary with how they live in the wild.

To find out, behavioral biologist Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in Hampshire, U.K., and colleagues watched videos collected over 3 years of gorillas at various zoos and reserves in Germany and Switzerland.

On 11 April 2014 behavioral biologist Hans van den Assem passed away.

«Oleocanthal and ibuprofen are chemically unrelated, yet both are potent anti-inflammatory compounds that activate the TRPA1 receptor and cause sensory irritation,» said Monell behavioral biologist Gary K. Beauchamp, Ph.D., also a corresponding author.

Karen Pryor, founder and leading proponent of clicker training and an internationally recognized animal behavioral biologist, visits with Marcie and Whistle about her new book, Reaching the Animal Mind, and her vast experience working with animals through positive methods and conditioning.

The truth may be quite the opposite, according to behavioral biologist Dario Maestripieri of the University of Chicago.

So do most people, until they try it, says behavioral biologist and learning authority Karen Pryor of Watertown, Mass..

«This topic is important, since it will shed a light on the evolution of human cheating and punishment,» Liesbeth Sterck, a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the study, told LiveScience in an email.

Christine Cassella, M.S., is a mother of two young girls and has a broad background including training as a behavioral biologist, certified herbalist, and birth doula.

Having worked for years as a honey bee pathologist and behavioral biologist, Camazine brings an attention to detail and appreciation for scientific accuracy to this unique art form.

«It's definitely a different and novel take on post-copulation calls,» says Fred Bercovitch, a behavioral biologist at the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species at the San Diego Zoo.

Behavioral biologist Dario Maestripieri launches from this example into a spirited, insightful narrative that explores the ways our interpersonal relationships resemble those of our primate cousins, suggesting evolutionary roots for a range of social behaviors including nepotism, cultivating friends, and climbing the corporate ladder.

But homing pigeons can also build collective knowledge banks, behavioral biologists have discovered, at least when it comes to finding their way back to the roost.

The phenomenon, known as cumulative cultural evolution, was considered «arguably unique to humans,» says Dora Biro, a behavioral biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Behavioral studies have shown that some fish learn to avoid adverse stimuli, says Patrick Bateson, a behavioral biologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., but he says this study «strengthens the evidence» that fish really can feel pain.

Patterson's and Mann's results also «reinforce a pattern» often seen in other tool - using animals, says Simon Reader, a behavioral biologist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

For example, recent Monell - related findings show that bitter receptors also are involved in protecting us against internal toxins, including bacteria related to respiratory diseases,» said study author Gary Beauchamp, PhD, a behavioral biologist at Monell.

«Primates were assumed to have no control over their calls,» says Madeleine Hardus, a behavioral biologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who classifies the orangutans» ability to alter their standard call as «a cultural innovation.»

The team's findings «are very significant,» says Fred Dyer, a behavioral biologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

«People tried to find every possible explanation,» says Gordon Burghardt, a behavioral biologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Peter Tyack, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research, says that to understand this, behavioral biologists «need to dive in a little more deeply to understand subtle details of how males respond to males and how females choose an animal for mating.»

Taming of the few «Island tameness is an old idea, but there have been few tests of it,» says Dan Blumstein, a behavioral biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Greenwood, a behavioral biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and other basic scientists frequently find that they are pursuing research so cutting edge that the tools they need haven't even been invented yet.

Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist with an international reputation in marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology.

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