Sentences with phrase «species typical behaviour»

The veterinary behaviourist must also receive training in normal species typical behaviour, comparative animal behaviour, the principles of learning and behaviour modification, abnormal behaviour, psychopharmacology and the effects of disease on behaviour, and must work for at least two years seeing cases under the mentorship of a board certified behaviourist.

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Given the well - recognised importance of close contact in establishing breastfeeding, and the need for frequent suckling, anthropologists consider that mother - infant sleep contact is a normal, species - typical, parenting behaviour for humans.

As with many species, fighting and mating are typical behaviours observed.

Furthermore, studies have consistently shown that the neurotransmitter dopamine acts on various psychobiological systems to affect the expression of species typical maternal behaviour in both mothers who have given birth, and non-mothers who demonstrate materal behaviours through repeated exposure to young.30 - 34 New mothers with minimal experience develop an attraction to, and recognition of, their own infants, their odours, cries and visual characteristics; 35 and hence, infants and their cues become rewarding to the mother.36 Mothers also undergo a change in their emotional states, being more anxious and more often attentive to infants, and to threats to the infant; 37,38 they show greater attentional flexibility and working memory.