Sentences with phrase «of animal behavior in»

Although this term is used in a variety of contexts, the term is most closely associated with ethology, the study of animal behavior in its natural environment from the perspective of evolutionary adaptation.

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.

Not exact matches

David Mech introduced the idea of the alpha to describe behavior observed in captive animals.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

Gay behavior is apparent in 1500 species of the planets animals... naturally.

The foundations of behavior therapies were constructed by the Russian physiologist Pavlov's experiments in conditioning animals early in this century.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

For within the past 40 years anthropologists in general have begun to accept the data provided by lonely birdwatchers and other students of animal behavior which demonstrate that the primal instinct in animals is neither to reproduce nor to survive.

«Speech in its embryonic stages as exemplified in animal and human behavior,» he says in Modes of Thought, «varies between emotional expression and signaling» (MT 52).

In a little lesser degree the behavior of lower vertebrates allows the conclusion that these animals have sensations, feelings and memory.

Nevertheless, the behavior of animals in the wild can not be examined in this way.

Nevertheless, quite obviously, there are characteristics of the behavior of a living animal that are not directly examined in this manner.

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.

In the biological sense, an animal displays instinctive behavior when that behavior appears spontaneously, without the assistance of social cues or learning.

In vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioIn vegetables and perhaps in very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioin very simple animals no such dominant occasion occurs, but in the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavioin the higher organisms, especially where a fully developed central nervous system and brain is found, there is strong indication of centralized control of many aspects of the animals behavior.

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.

But animals, and even vegetables, in low forms of organism exhibit modes of behavior directed towards self - preservation.

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.

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.

I hold that it is absurd in principle to think of predicting details of animal behavior (not to mention animal feelings).

In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welIn fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as welin recent decades, can be extended to human behavior as well.

To say, «i eat dead animals religiously», means in a ritualistic manner akin to the regularity of old world religious behavior.

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.

Certainly in political terms, it is easier to regulate devices than behavior, so this may be part of the animal activist strategy.

Some use of subjective terms may be warranted in describing the behavior of human beings and perhaps of higher animals to avoid ponderous circumlocutions, but should be avoided in attempts at the most precise formulations.

C. H. Waddington sees an interaction between the purposive behavior of animals and their environment that was inadequately recognized in more reductionistic interpretations of neo-Darwinism.

Many animals exhibit remarkable behaviors... but only the human race exhibits the creativity, the artistic expression, and the irrepressible belief in the divine demonstrated throughout the entire realm of recorded human history.

Even at the level of tribal religious rituals, which Whitehead compares with the co-actions in animal herd behavior, a process of abstraction can be discerned which augments solitariness and world - consciousness.

Another striking example of self - organization in animal behavior is the swarm - raid of the army ant (AA 139 - 145).

The animals engaged in stereotypic behaviors such as biting the bars of crates, indicating poor well - being in the extreme confinement conditions.

Though it's fortunately not manifested in the same behaviors (you're more likely to recycle that pile of newspapers than shred them or reach for the feather duster rather than the feathers), the nesting instinct in humans can be as powerful as it is for our animal friends.

In terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experimentIn terms of the goal of controlling behavior, he viewed humans, and their conditioned responses, in much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experimentin much the same way as he viewed the animals upon which he conducted his experiments.

And for millions of years male animals will kill babies that aren't theirs in order to mate with the mother... so since we want to imitate animals... is this normal behavior for humans also?

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

And today, we'll feature a two part series covering Vince and Stephanie's specific situation in detail and then bringing in an expert opinion from Pawsitive Tails of San Francisco, an animal behavior, care, and training company.

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.

Animal personality researchers have historically focused on individuals while ignoring the way they behave in groups, and collective behavior researchers have focused on groups while downplaying individual differences, according to University of St. Andrews animal behavior researcher Mike Webster, who was not involved in theAnimal personality researchers have historically focused on individuals while ignoring the way they behave in groups, and collective behavior researchers have focused on groups while downplaying individual differences, according to University of St. Andrews animal behavior researcher Mike Webster, who was not involved in theanimal behavior researcher Mike Webster, who was not involved in the work.

In contrast, animals who had the nuclear form of HDAC5 did not press the lever nearly as often, even after the experimenters gave the animals a small priming dose of cocaine, which often produces strong drug - seeking behaviors.

Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.

The reviews required recruitment of experts in fields including neurology, animal behavior, advanced mathematics, emerging diseases, and computer science and security.

Scientists at Duke Health who developed the new model also discovered that targeting a brain receptor in mice with this type of autism could ease repetitive behaviors and improve learning in some animals.

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.

In many animals, sexual behavior is timed to occur with ovulation to ensure the highest possible chance of fertilization and therefore, continuation of the species.

Page and his colleagues, who use animal models to understand how autism risk factors impact the developing brain and to identify potential treatments for the condition, have found that animals with mutations in the autism risk gene phosphatase and tensin homolog (Pten) mimic aspects of autism, including increased brain size, social deficits and increased repetitive behavior.

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

When a stranger mouse was placed in the home of a Pten - mutant mouse, instead of attacking or investigating the intruder, these mutant animals engaged in repetitive behavior — in this case, digging.

These types of behaviors — particularly those when an animal seeks a reward — generally are thought to be important in the domestication process.

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.

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

The significance of any animal's behavior in front of a mirror is even more fraught.