Sentences with phrase «chemical social signals»

Cats» territories are large, and although they often overlap with other cats» territory, cats have sophisticated chemical social signals, called pheromones.

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The chemical tells individual neurons to fire off a signal or not, influencing other brain signals and pathways, and essentially serves as a traffic cop of motivation, emotion, and social behavior.

The social parasitic Maculinea butterfly uses chemical and acoustic adaptations to trick ant signaling defenses, and manages to spend most of its life cycle inside the ant nest.

One way the social wasps have found to increase the efficiency of their defence is through chemical signals, called alarm pheromones, which are used to rouse the colony to action and mark intruders for attack.

Angelfish also communicate social status through chemical signals contained in the urine and bile they release into the water.

We know other mammals use chemical signals to communicate things such as identity, sex, social status and reproductive state.

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

Vitale Shreve, Kristyn R., Udell, Monique A.R., Stress, Security, and Scent: The influence of chemical signals on the social lives of domestic cats and implications for applied settings.

Pheromones are species - specific naturally occurring chemical signals that are excreted or secreted by an individual to trigger a social response in that same species.

Therefore the purpose of this review is to investigate how cats process and use chemical signals in social contexts, and identify ways this information can be used to improve cat welfare, including additional species - appropriate ways of reinforcing the human - cat bond.

Although the production of chemical signals, their perception through olfactory processes, and the behavioral response to these signals plays a central role in domesticated cat communication and behavior (especially social behavior), the function, scope and importance of these abilities are often not given the same level of attention dedicated to other domesticated species (e.g. dogs or pigs), which may lead some to erroneously underestimate the significance of this communication modality in cats.