Sentences with phrase «on animal behavior in»

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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.)

Things are seriously mixed up in our country if Tebow is seen as someone who should be scorned, when so many other pro athletes abuse drugs, abuse their wives, abuse animals, and commit crimes on a regular basis yet the public seems to be just fine with overlooking that behavior.

«Fourth, the Inquiry was alarmed at the man's behavior in parading the half - dead man into Jericho on an animal, We could draw only two possible conclusions from this.

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.

Should a dog feel the need to show dominance by jumping on other dogs, coveting balls and other toys, engaging in stiff - tail stare - downs with other dogs or barking other dogs into submission, then the owner should avoid taking the animal to a dog park until its behavior improves, he said.

As if a date at Shedd Aquarium on Valentine's Day (or weekend, this year) isn't romantic enough, you can find animals throughout the building that, in name or behavior, are as felicitous as a lace - trimmed heart - shaped card.

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.

Mounted on a rat's head, the 1.5 - inch plastic and titanium instrument allows the animal to move freely and captures in real time how brain cells interact during everyday behaviors.

This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.

(He later shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on animal behavior patterns.)

Understanding the mechanisms that drive migratory behavior is increasingly important, Beck said, in terms of climate change, as migrating animals rely on multiple habitats.

«Why these animals stayed together so long in Hood Canal is a mystery,» said John K. B. Ford, one of the world's leading researchers on orca behavior and a marine mammal scientist at the Canadian government's Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.

The findings suggest that mites recall the experiences they have early in life — the first example of a predator experience during one life stage of an animal having a specific effect on its behavior during another life stage.

And that is what I have observed in my observation of both wild and domestic animals, based on my (subjective) interpretation of their behavior.

Or you could call it the single most effective act of dominance behavior in the history of animal life on this planet — and not a tooth bared in anger.

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.

In the future, Wilmers hopes, data on animal behavior will help inform development and infrastructure projects before they're built — in California and beyonIn the future, Wilmers hopes, data on animal behavior will help inform development and infrastructure projects before they're built — in California and beyonin California and beyond.

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.

LIFE focuses on up - close encounters with the astonishing, quirky, and endearing behaviors of animals and plants dwelling on every continent and in every habitat.

The ability of the ocean to save the globe from climate change may hinge on the behavior of microscopic animals in a dim, watery world.

The study, «Modulating Behavior in C.elegans Using Electroshock and Antiepileptic Drugs,» just published in PLOS One, has led the researchers to build on the current animal models for inducing seizures via electroconvulsion in the genetically modifiable C.elegans that only has 302 brain cells called neurons.

«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.

Serotonin [5 - hydroxytryptamine, (5 - HT)-RSB- function influences normal fear as well as pathological anxiety, behaviors critically dependent on the amygdala in animal models and in clinical studies.

DiChristina: Right, I mean it happens, it proves to be successful strategy for acquiring protein in the form of worms and those animals that develop this successful strategy or can pass it on in whatever means survive better and that way the behavior continues.

There is no way to create a «schizophrenic» mouse, Meyer emphasizes, but certain key cognitive deficits and behaviors can be measured in both animals and humans and are thought to rely on similar brain regions and neural circuits.

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.

«These response behaviors, in two separate species of animals, validate that the cells containing the synthetic gene turn on in a magnetic field,» Wheeler noted.

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.

«Evolution has spent a colossal amount of time to find ways for us and other animals to take information out of our brains and communicate it to other animals in the forms of behavior, speech and so on,» Stocco said.

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Scribner, $ 25 Animals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple GAnimals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Scribner, $ 25 Animals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple GrAnimal Behavior Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Scribner, $ 25 Animals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple GAnimals may be autistic savants, and autism itself «a kind of way station on the road between animals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple Ganimals and humans,» writes animal scientist Temple Granimal scientist Temple Grandin.

Despite the lack of sensory information, we found that animals were remarkably precise and consistent in timed behaviors, with standard deviations on the order of 100 ms. To examine the potential neural basis of this precision, we recorded from single neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP), which has been implicated in the planning and execution of eye movements.

Heiko Woith and colleagues at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences say scientists must determine whether the link between the animal behavior and the earthquake is based on clearly defined rules (such as the animal's distance from earthquakes of a certain magnitude), whether the animal behavior has ever been observed and not followed by an earthquake, whether there is a statistical testing hypothesis in place to examine the evidence, and whether the animal population is a healthy, among other questions.

«My research on snow leopard social behavior was conducted as part of an MSc in Applied Animal Behavior and Welfare at the University of Edbehavior was conducted as part of an MSc in Applied Animal Behavior and Welfare at the University of EdBehavior and Welfare at the University of Edinburgh.

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.

The scientists can then turn different neurons in the striatum on and off to see how this alters the animal's behavior, revealing more about which cells do what in the brain.

«We wanted to provide a forum for researchers to trade notes on best practices when assessing behaviors in healthy and diseased animal models,» explained Gill, who organized the event.

They also shared new approaches to studying the behaviors of animals that model these conditions — all in an effort to shed light on how the brain functions and how changes in the brain can lead to devastating neurological disorders.

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Based on observations of a group of three young female Somali wild asses at the Saint Louis Zoo, the study provides new insight into the species» social behavior in a captive setting — a relatively good proxy environment for the early phases of wild animal domestication.

Asa has taught a spring semester evening course on animal behavior for about 20 years in WUSTL's University College in Arts & Sciences.

In fact, some of the more prominent animal studies show that sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine: one in particular went on to show that mice react to Oreo cookies with the same addictive behavior as they do with specific drugIn fact, some of the more prominent animal studies show that sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine: one in particular went on to show that mice react to Oreo cookies with the same addictive behavior as they do with specific drugin particular went on to show that mice react to Oreo cookies with the same addictive behavior as they do with specific drugs.

In this experiment, the animals showed behaviors similar to the effects of drug abuse — going through binging, withdrawal, and craving while on this feeding schedule.

On the surface, that may appear to be true, especially in modern man, but an expert in the field of «fear psychology» (or animal behavior, or anthropology, etc.) should know better.

Their experiments start on animals — dead pigs and dogs — one to success, though they do find that the serum continues to remain in the brain longer than expected, resulting in aggressive and erratic behavior in their subjects.

The correlation of children without a positive, moral influence isn't lost on the animal like behavior portrayed in the film.

Pratt plays an ex-military expert in animal behavior working as a velociraptor trainer at a secluded research base on the periphery of the dinosaur theme park.

Project Nim (Unrated) Primate whisperer documentary about a chimpanzee separated from its mother at birth and raised in captivity inside a brownstone located on Manhattan's fashionable Upper West Side as a study in animal behavior.

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Compare and contrast the behaviors of hunters and gatherers with those of people who cultivated plants and raised domesticated animals for food, in order to demonstrate the influence of the Neolithic revolution on the daily lives of people.