Sentences with phrase «make animal behaviors»

The stress put on family relationships can make animal behaviors and communication go sideways, and turn a once loving pet bond into a dysfunctional relationship.

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The problem is many Christians want to think it's been defined by their god but all social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining selfishness in order to make group living worthwhile.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

Set in that awful tension, played against the shattering flashbacks to the dehumanizing animal behavior of the Nazi camp guards, the camera has here been made to strip nudity itself to that inner nakedness where God's grace seeks to find us and clothe us.

Isolated and nearly immobilized in such small crates, these sensitive animals are unable to even walk, turn around, or lie down comfortably, let alone play, explore, or engage in other natural behaviors that make life worth living.

Animals are not things, they feel just like you do, they fear just like you do no matter what excuses you want to label your behavior with it will never make it right.

It would make the animals more adoptable, therefore cutting back on a high number of animals that are euthanized in Onondaga County, and it would offer inmates an opportunity to work with these animals, which in other programs, has led to better behavior among the incarcerated and lowered recidivism.

So it makes sense that hermit crabs and other animals have evolved sophisticated social behaviors to make the most of vacancy chains.

When injected into mice engineered with a tau mutation that makes the protein clump abnormally in brain cells, triggering memory and motor problems, the antibodies reduced the clumping and improved the animals» behavior.

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.

An animal's feed intake is just one the many traits that make up its phenotype — or outward appearance and behavior.

Buchholz: Well, usually in animal behavior studies we don't make any assumptions about the individual animal thought processes per se.

Research into both coyote and human behavior informs strategies to reduce urban - nature clashes and make peace with animal neighbors

This «rape - induced paralysis,» she explains, is one of six automatically activated defense behaviors in animals and humans that make up the «defense cascade.»

«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.

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.

After all, that's what makes Grandin such an uncanny translator of animal behavior.

The scientists divided the animals into 19 groups of 16 individuals (all males about 4 months of age, because an animal's age and gender can affect its behavior, making it more difficult to tease out its personality type).

The animals make close friendships, hoot in celebration, and kiss each other in greeting.Such behavior is even more exaggerated among the lightly built bonobos, each of which uses sex with every member of the group — male and female both — to say hello or calm tensions.

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.

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.

«I see that frantic search for money in other junior professors, and it makes me appreciative that I can focus on my research program,» says Manns, now in his first year as an assistant professor studying neuroscience and animal behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Branson said she is happy to share her data with others after first publishing her own results, and her team has made its machine learning software (the Janelia Automatic Animal Behavior Annotator) freely available for download.

Animal studies have also found that a stress to a parent, such as exposing a pregnant mouse to toxic chemicals or mildly shocking a mouse father to make it fear an odor, can result in effects such as infertility or changes in behavior that persist for two generations or more yet can't be explained by genetic mutations.

The animal behaviors that seem peculiar to us humans actually make a lot of sense for survival.

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.

When he was still an experimentalist in the early 1970s, he began to explore mathematical models of animal behavior in tests that focused on the way animals make choices.

Exposure to the main ingredient of polycarbonate plastics can modify brain formation in female mouse fetuses and make the lab animals, later in life, display a typically male behavior pattern, scientists have announced.

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.

While biologists have tracked how global warming has altered the developmental, migration, timing and other behavior in plants and animals, what makes this study unusual is the physical changes in the bees, said study co-author Candace Galen at the University of Missouri.

The idea that the activity of a place cell is predictive and can be modified by learning and the behavior of other animals may make it easier to conceptualize an all - encompassing framework that ties together the hippocampus» role in spatial navigation with its well - established role in learning and memory formation.

This course will survey current understanding of the social behavior and decision making of humans and other animals, from psychological, economic, and ethological perspective; the neurobiology of friendship, social connection, and cooperation; the neurobiology of theory of mind and strategic behavior; disorders affecting social decision making and their biological basis; and applications of social neuroscience to business, including marketing, management and organizational design, leadership and team - building, negotiation, and trading.

To date, there has been much research that's observed socially contagious behaviors in humans and animals, but scientists are just starting to look into what makes them ripple through groups of people.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

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Students performed dances, made music, and displayed works of art that were aligned with their grade - level curriculum, exploring subjects from animal behavior and math facts to American history and electromagnetism.

There may be unforeseen circumstances that make it seem impossible for pets to stay with their owners, but San Diego Humane Society provides animal owners help to resolve issues in many areas, from behavior problems to financial and medical challenges.

«Very often abusers will not take responsibility for what they have done, so there is a whole series of questions, not to make them feel guilty, but to try to show them other ways of looking at their behavior and also at animals,» Brown says.

What I would like to convey are some very basic principles of animal behavior and how to apply many of the training techniques that I've learned over my career to your situation, whether you're looking for ways to build a better relationship, managing just one person, training a small or large staff, or generally looking to make your business run smoother.

Indeed, veterinarians at Tufts University's Animal Behavior Clinic say aerobic exercise stimulates the brain to make serotonin, a hormone that helps dogs, especially those who are anxious or aggressive, to relax.

Animals can make you happy because they exhibit an innocent and natural behavior and they may remind you that perfect health is a distinct possibility.

If there is a technique you'd like your animal to be able to do on command, make certain you praise your canine whenever she or he does the behavior.

Decisions on size, coat type, potential health problems, ease of training, need for exercise, behavior, temperament, and attitude made before you see that litter of pups or visit a pet store or shelter will help make a good decision on the animal that will share your home.

Paula Benton and Ariana Luchsinger are certified professional dog trainers that make up half of SF Animal Care & Control's Behavior & Training Department.

Veterinary behaviorists use this information, medical records, what they know of the animal's behavior in the wild and how the species communicates with other animals or humans to make a diagnosis.

Due to the growing emphasis on the humane treatment of pets, the ability to assist owners in eliminating improper behavior without recourse to traditional forms of punishment will make the animal behaviorist a valued member of the veterinary care community.

The scholarships are available for the three Master's degree core courses, which also make up the graduate certificate: Integrating Veterinary Medicine with Shelter Systems, Shelter Animal Physical Health, and Shelter Animal Behavior and Welfare.The University of Florida is able to make this offer thanks to the generosity of the Nestlé Purina PetCare Company and Broker's Tale.

Her program manager, Ashlie, proved to be very helpful in understanding the curriculum as well as being a great resource - making her experience with Animal Behavior College a wonderful one.

We will help you make the switch with a program to build behaviors and help your animal become enthusiastic about working with you.