Sentences with phrase «of animal behaviour»

The science of animal behaviour change provided the map, of course.

In the same way as our knowledge of things like medicine, human psychology and technology has changed dramatically in the last 75 years, so has our understanding of animal behaviour.

With better information - processing tools, researchers can analyse huge data sets of animal behaviour for patterns.

Student Travel Awards to the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference (2003 and 2004) and the Australian Neuroscience Society conference (2004)

Charlotte C. Burn, a biologist at The Royal Veterinary College of the University of London, wrote in the August issue of Animal Behaviour about how companion dogs and even farmed pigs feel boredom.

The American Veterinary Society of Animal behaviour has released a policy statement which states that the concept of a dominance - based, alpha dog hierarchy is wrong, and should not be a basis for our interaction with our canine companions.

John Kennedy, formerly professor of animal behaviour at Imperial College, London, made his name studying how insects fly.

The team presented its findings at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behaviour Society in Missouri on 31 July.

King presented her research last week at the summer conference of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in St Andrews.

There are indeed clear signs of transcendence over the material order in the human personality; not just higher refinements of animal behaviour — although of course these are also present — but factors that operate on a truly novel principle.

This is, admittedly, a very important matter and my own desire to investigate the «higher» and more complex aspects of animal behaviour, and not to rest content with Lloyd Morgan's injunction, may well have been due to my early reading of Whitehead.

Working in the field of animal behaviour means that around World Cup season it's hard to avoid being sent links to so - called «psychic» animals that predict the outcome of matches, such as Paul the octopus, Leon the porcupine and Anton the tamarin.

«If animals are undertaking activities solely or partly to keep fit, this opens up a significant new facet to our understanding and interpretation of animal behaviour.

Dr Gus Mills, from the Lewis Foundation, South Africa and Oxford University's WildCRU said: «Modern technology has given us the opportunity to record and measure facets of animal behaviour we have never been able to do.

Courting rituals are just one ingredient of Animal Behaviour (Blandford, pp 226, # 14.99), a rich mixture of essays and photographs edited by Tim Halliday, head of biology at the Open University, Milton Keynes, with other contributions from around the world.

STUDENTS of animal behaviour are taught to resist thinking about animals as though they were human.

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

The research has been published in the latest edition of Animal Behaviour titled Grooming decisions under structural despotism: the impact of social rank and bystanders among wild male chimpanzees.

The researcher reminds us that the study of the modelling, organisation and coordination of the animal behaviour is a clear example of multidisciplinary collaboration: «biologists participate to perform the experiments in the laboratory and provide real data, in coordination with mathematicians and physicists who propose and solve the models.»

Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Talk: «Bet - hedging in response to mate limitation in the spiny leaf stick insect» 2017

Plenary Address: Eric B. Keverne SubDepartment of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Evolutionary coadaptation of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus and placenta in foetal programming

Puppy Start Right Preschool is a science based learning program, developed by the Karen Pryor Academy of Animal Behaviour and Training.

International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants (IAABC) Board of Directors, IAABC Animal Behaviour Consulting Principles & Practice Course Mentor Trainer, Speaker at the 2014 APDT Conference, Trail Regional BC SPCA Community Council Chair.

the administration of any drug for non-therapeutic purposes in order to alter the performance or behaviour of the animals

Like many odd types of animal behaviour, we can only make educated guesses at the reasons.

A new study by an international team of animal behaviour specialists suggests that cats who reluctantly allow their owners to stroke them could be more stressed out than moggies who carefully avoid being petted.

By combining the knowledge of animal behaviour with practical teaching skills such as patience, consistency and excellent communication skills, our trainers will support you in seeing the results you wish to observe from your canine companion.

In the November issue of Animal Behaviour, a team reports the identification of a chemical compound known as myristyl acetate in the male plant bug spermatophore, a capsule containing sperm that is transferred to the female during copulation.

It's all part of the growing science of animal behaviour, summarised neatly for students by Mark Ridley (Animal Behavior, 2nd edition, Blackwell Scientific, # 16.50, ISBN 0 86542 390 3).

So the scientific study of animal behaviour was inevitably «marked from birth by its anthropomorphic parentage».

As well as boosting our understanding of animal behaviour, the moment hints at the potential for using algorithms to analyse any activity where information is transmitted — including our daily activities (see «Scripts for life «-RRB-.

«When dogs are waiting for adoption at a shelter, a common question is «what is the dog like with cats,»» says Christy L. Hoffman, PhD, assistant professor of animal behaviour, ecology and conservation at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.

AVSAB (American Veterinary Society of Animal Behaviour) position statements on dominance, punishment and puppy socialization

Scientists, writing in this month's issue of Animal Behaviour, can't explain the curious behavior, but think that older females may give off enticing pheromones that trick males into the dubious mating arrangement.

University of Basel's page on sexual selection in hermaphrodites Anna Karlsson's home page Current issue of Animal Behaviour

The findings appear in the July issue of Animal Behaviour.

The study, to be published in the October issue of Animal Behaviour, also found that bird odor was a more reliable predictor of reproductive success than a male's size or his plumage.

That book, Beast and Man: The roots of human nature, drew on her studies of animal behaviour.

Niko's Nature A Life of Niko Tinbergen and His Science of Animal Behaviour.

This work complies with the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour / Animal Behaviour Society guidelines for the use of animals in research, and received approval from the Ethical Review Committee at the University of Sussex.

He is President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Fellow of the International Ornithological Union and has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Foundation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Wiener - Anspach foundation amongst other awards; he is funded by the Australian Research Council.

In the April issue of Animal Behaviour, scientists report on dog what dogs are trying to say, including an experiment in which...

The American Veterinary Society of Animal Behaviour (AVSAB) has also issued position papers on the topic.

Inspired by the most varied sources (from sociology to literature, chess, mathematics, NASA images and the study of animal behaviour), Thater creates works that interact with the surrounding environment, and establishes complex relationships between the spatial and temporal dimensions.