Sentences with phrase «in social mammals»

The link between social class and health in social mammals has been well documented.

Testing vocal learning ability in social mammals usually requires observing the animal in a novel social situation, one that might stimulate them to communicate in new ways.

Not exact matches

According to Narvaez, one of the reasons that the well - being of children in the United States lags behind that of children in other advanced nations is because «we have forgotten that we are social mammals with specific evolved needs from birth.»

We know that the caregiving practices I discuss frequently in my blog emerged more than 30 million years ago with the social mammals and were slightly changed among humans according to anthropological studies of small - band hunter gatherers.

New research shows similarities in the social organisation of bees and mammals, and provides insight into the genetics of social behavior for other animals.

These findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, use sociogenomics — a field that explores the relationship between social behaviour and the genome — to show strong similarities in socially genetic circuits common in honey bees and mammals.

«Similarities found in bee and mammal social organization.»

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the marine mammals, «with their complex social behavior, are capable of engaging in equally as sophisticated mixed - species interactions,» he adds.

«Rodents, dogs and other mammals commonly sniff themselves, and they sniff one another in social interactions, and it seems that in the course of evolution, humans have retained this practice — only on a subliminal level.»

Social monogamy evolved many times across mammals as a male mating strategy in species where females are widely spaced for ecological reasons.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

For large - brained mammals like apes that engage in complex social interactions this is relatively straightforward.

«Our findings suggest that social interactions that stimulate oxytocin production will recruit this newly identified circuit to help coordinate the complex behavioral responses elicited by changing social situations in all mammals, including humans,» says senior study author Nathaniel Heintz of The Rockefeller University.

In his quest, he discovers that many mammals and birds possess rich personalities and display complicated social behaviors and group politics.

«This is the first time that GABA neuron activity — found deep in the brainstem — has been shown to play a key role in the cognitive processes associated with social approach or avoidance behavior in mammals,» said Dr. Berton.

Researchers analyzed social bonds in behavioral data from a long - term study of the rock hyrax, a small mammal that lives in colonies across Africa and the Middle East.

Such behavior is atypical for social mammals, in which it is common for an alpha female to sabotage the reproductive efforts of others.

The findings, reported in Nature Neuroscience, illuminate the neural roots of opposite - sex social behavior in mammals, and may also be relevant to certain psychiatric illnesses.

Among the second - generation offspring, one gene linked to nest building stood out — it regulates the hormone vasopressin, which, like oxytocin, has a strong effect on social and bonding behaviors in mammals and birds.

Studies of early development in fishes show that neural networks in the brain controlling the more complex vocal and pectoral mechanisms of social signalling among birds and mammals have their ancestral origins in a single compartment of the hindbrain in fishes.

My main research interests lie in understanding the evolution of social and mating systems in mammals.

Our work provides an unusual opportunity to examine directly links between social structure and inherent social skills that are at the basis of individual and group - level interactions in cognitively advanced mammals [1, 2].

The ACC and FI, though sometimes considered ancient in phylogeny, feature a large bipolar projection neuron, the von Economo neuron (VEN), which is found only in humans, apes, and selected whales - all large - brained mammals with complex social structures.

In contrast, tempo - related (e.g., call rate) and source - related (e.g., F0) features often indicate levels of general arousal in mammals over a wide variety of contexts, ranging from social separations, bouts of aggression, to painful procedures [31]--[37In contrast, tempo - related (e.g., call rate) and source - related (e.g., F0) features often indicate levels of general arousal in mammals over a wide variety of contexts, ranging from social separations, bouts of aggression, to painful procedures [31]--[37in mammals over a wide variety of contexts, ranging from social separations, bouts of aggression, to painful procedures [31]--[37].

While almost all large domesticated mammals have wild ancestors who lived in herds with highly social behaviors and well - defined hierarchical relationships, neither wild asses nor Grevy's is reported to be social in the wild.

Out of almost 5,000 mammal species in the world, there are only two in which males live with their relatives in social groups and occasionally make trips into neighboring territories to stalk, hunt and kill members of neighboring groups.

ut of almost 5,000 mammal species in the world, there are only two in which males live with their relatives in social groups and occasionally make trips into neighboring territories to stalk, hunt and kill members of neighboring groups.

The revolutionary insight that humans have an endocannabinoid system, which controls executive function, mood, social behavior, and pain, is conserved from invertebrates to high mammals, and can be activated by cannabinoids in marijuana, renewed interest in its medicinal applications (5, 52).

As opposed to their natural wide - range ocean habitat, these intelligent, social marine mammals will be forced to live out their lives in -LSB-...]

There are few things more magical than kayaking in the beautiful waters of the San Juan Islands and seeing one of these incredibly social and intelligent mammals roll belly up next to your kayak and look you in the eye.

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Americans and others who appreciate the moral horror of having stupid violent people kill very smart peaceful social marine mammals need now to follow up on this small victory and drive home the point that this is just the opening salvo of what they can expect if they continue to engage in their morally deprave, hypocritical behavior.

But firing harpoons into intelligent, social marine mammals in the wild from a moving vessel is not the same as raising bison on rangeland and slaughtering them in controlled conditions.

And that's illustrated if you compare how «science - based» and «science - denier» blogs discuss right about any climate - related topic, from actual atmospheric temperature development to its physical manifestations, like sea level rise (see the chart in the middle of this piece) and social and ecological consequences of climate change — including at some point the fate of iconic mammal species that use sea ice as hunting grounds.

Oxytocin plays an important role in priming mammals to form social bonds, but in turn, the early social environment may also be able to shape the development of the oxytocin system [for a review, see Ref.

We are not codependent, we are social mammals who function best in secure relationships with others.