Sentences with phrase «similar kinds of behavior»

Not exact matches

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.

In a study published in Nature, geneticist Andrés Bendesky of Harvard University and his colleagues worked with two kinds of mice that are genetically similar but differ in their pairing behavior: a subspecies of oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus) form monogamous pairs, whereas deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) mate with multiple partners.

«Our results raise the interesting possibility that there's a genetic toolkit for this kind of behavior,» he says — a set of genes that have been used at several points in evolution to come up with similar behaviors.

With similar negotiations coming up with other publishers, Amazon decided to take a hard line in order to nip this kind of behavior in the bud.

It's a simple fact, unfortunately, that large - breed dogs are capable of doing much more serious damage than smaller ones — a Yorkie or Chihuahua will never cause the kind of severe injuries that a German shepherd or Rottweiler can, even if their aggressive behavior is otherwise very similar.

Atwood says he wants to use a badge system for rewards (something Huffington Post also uses), but Gawker founder Nick Denton said in an interview last year that a similar reward system his sites used was a «terrible mistake,» because it was easily gamed and encouraged the wrong kinds of behavior.