Sentences with phrase «in studies of animal behavior»

Marshall suggests that it also emphasizes the importance of considering broader environmental contexts, such as predation risk, as well as the perceptual abilities of natural observers like predators in studies of animal behavior.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

Dr Kang Nee is a scientist trained in the study of animal behavior, and a strong advocate of a «Do No Harm» evidence - based approach to animal care.

Founder / Owner Mishell is a certified animal health technician with over 20 years experience in the study of animal behavior, breeding and training at various levels.

While the word bonding has become a popular and sensitive word for the 1990's, it has a much richer and long standing significance in the study of animal behavior.

Not exact matches

If the findings of those who study animal behavior are to be accepted, power is an indispensable element in the preservation of the group life of the species in the animal world.

If they are not relevant, then mere behavior, as causally conditioned spatio - temporal changes and nothing more, is the only universal principle, and what we learn by studying animals adds nothing (beyond unusual complexity or subtlety) to our concept of reality in general.

Psychology can study the behavior of animals and try to guess what forms of perception, emotion, memory, and perhaps learning or problem solving of simple kinds are going on in these creatures.

Attachment theory stems from psychologist John Bowlby's studies of maternal deprivation and animal behavior research in the early 1950s.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

The study wasn't about designing a new way of testing animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.

A new study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found no evidence of increased aggressive behavior toward strangers in an animal model of the condition.

A 1999 critique of primate mirror self - recognition studies in the journal Animal behavior said that differences between species could be due to the conditions in which they were reared, and that it was premature to speculate as to how the skill relates to other cognitive abilities, such as inferring the mental states of others.

Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals other than human beings.

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.

The Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Program at Canisius (ABEC) combines the rigorous scientific study of Animal Behavior with a values - focused curriculum in the liberal arts tradition.

According to study co-author Larry J. Young of Emory University, the results provide evidence in a comparatively simple animal model that changes in the activity of a single gene profoundly can change a fundamental social behavior of animals within a species.

«There hasn't been a good animal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal Behanimal model for any kind of speech disorder,» says study author Wan - chun Liu, a senior research associate in Fernando Nottebohn's Laboratory of Animal BehAnimal Behavior.

Among those is canine compulsive disorder (CCD), the counterpart to human obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD),» says the study's first and corresponding author Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVA, DACVB, professor in clinical sciences and section head and program director of animal behavior at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

Stress - susceptible animals that behaved as if they were depressed or anxious were restored to relatively normal behavior by tweaking the system, according to a study appearing in the July 20 issue of Neuron.

«It would be unethical to make adolescents have their first drink in the course of a study, so this variable requires a longitudinal epidemiological study or experimental animal research to assess drinking behavior.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment notes that reflected light — off of buildings or roadways — can be as disruptive to animal behavior as the direct light that attracts sea turtle hatchlings to begin life in the wrong direction.

The study of fluids in motion, she says, enables understanding of a huge number of phenomena in a vast range of fields, including biology, meteorology, medicine, astronomy, geology, oceanography, sports, animal behavior, and even highway traffic.

Lima's team studied the behavior of the animals before and after specific interventions were put in place.

The work speaks to how evolution may tap the same molecular pathways in very different animals, even for traits as complex as social behavior, says Hans Hofmann, an evolutionary neuroscientist at the University of Texas in Austin who was not involved with the study.

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.

Model behavior So far, there are only a few autism studies in which the sex of animals seems to make a difference, but that may be because scientists have only just begun to look.

In contrast, numerous studies on the social behavior and choice of mates among reptiles and birds, which are active during the day, have shown that information transmitted via color exerts an enormous influence on those animals» ability to communicate and procreate successfully.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

The smell map might also aid in the study and prediction of animal behavior by illuminating which scents an animal considers good or bad.

«For the first time, we can provide a complete description of an animal model from genes to behavior — including at the level of neuronal network activity, which has been ignored in most studies to date.»

A multicellular marine animal without organs, Trichoplax's feeding behavior may include cellular coordination, resulting in external food digestion, according to a study published September 2, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Carolyn Smith and colleagues from the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD..

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) pleatIn 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) pleatin 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 is a collaboration between Melissa Nelson Slater, psychology doctoral student at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Assistant Curator of Animal Husbandry at the Bronx Zoo, and Dr. Mark Hauber, Professor of Psychology in the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at Hunter College.

These studies are the latest in a significant body of research by Porfiri and collaborators utilizing robots, specifically robotic fish, to impact collective animal behavior.

The research team tested the hypothesis by transplanting cells onto the surface of mouse bone grafts and studying the cell behavior both in vivo — inside the animal — and in vitro — outside the body.

All Grant's gazelles (Nanger granti) have intestinal worms, but according to a study presented in Princeton, New Jersey, at the Animal Behavior Society meeting last week, those males able to defend land and a harem begin their reign with a relatively low number of parasites.

«It's the first time to see a complete cyclical picture where behavior modifies an animal's risk of acquiring a parasite, and how that infection, in turn, modifies the animal's behavior,» the study's lead author Vanessa Ezenwa, a disease ecologist at the University of Georgia, Athens, told the meeting.

Gammie and his colleagues studied mice a few days after they gave birth and tested how the animals reacted to differing levels of corticotropin - releasing hormone (CRH), which is released in the brain and helps control behavior.

Almost every animal behavior studied in the lab, from the effectiveness of experimental drugs to the ability of monkeys to do math, is affected by stress, notes Paul Flecknell, a veterinary anesthesiologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who researches ways to alleviate pain in animals.

In their new study Mark Grabowski and William Jungers concentrated on the estimation of body mass, a feature that affects almost all aspects of an animal's biology such as energy requirements, diet, locomotion and behavior.

Scientists have traditionally studied the neural basis of behavior in live animals by using techniques such as stimulating neurons with electrodes.

«When animals learn, they can learn very quickly,» said Brendan Barrett, a graduate student in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis, who led the study, published June 7 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «What are the psychological mechanisms animals use to learn?»

The study, published in this month's issue of Animal Behavior, shows that the resemblance between a nightingale wren's song and music is nothing more than a coincidence.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

I am interested in studying behavior of primates and applying this information to animal welfare in zoos as well as to conservation programs.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

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.

The study grew out of de Araujo's efforts to understand the neural mechanisms underlying feeding behaviors in animals.

Over the last ten years, Dr. Anderson has switched his research focus to the study of neural circuits that control emotional behaviors in animal models.