Sentences with phrase «specific adaptive behaviors»

Although the details of such a species - specific neural mechanism remain largely unknown, our findings may provide important insight into the neural mechanisms underlying the species - specific adaptive behaviors.

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Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

While vigilance and flight behaviors may be adaptive for a wide variety of external threats, headshaking behavior may be a specific adaptive response to bees, namely, to knock bees away from the facial area.

Developing criteria for establishing interrater reliability of specific items: Applications to assessment of adaptive behavior