The exhibition references Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, the archetypal nature show in which Marlin Perkins sent Jim Fowler to
study animal behavior in particularly dramatic made - for - TV ways.
In an operant conditioning chamber - also known as the Skinner Box - is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to
study animal behavior.
There is even a name for this phenomenon among scientists who
study animal behavior: «counterfreeloading»!
She would like
study animal behavior, ASL, or animal physical rehabilitation.
Kylie was a very smart puppy and trying to figure out ways to tire her both mentally and physically led Heather to
study animal behavior and cognition.
That's because people don't
study animal behavior, and they rely on simplistic advice on how to manage their dog's behaviors.
She is an alumnus of Washington State University and hopes to eventually return to school to
study animal behavior.
The idea that dogs follow the pack leader first began to take shape in the 1920s when ethologists (biologists who
study animal behavior) discovered pecking orders in chicken coops.
Students learn effective animal behavior control in a classroom setting and laboratory experimentation, allowing them to
study animal behavior in its natural habitat.
Comparative psychologists
study animal behavior to understand how they think.
«So the idea,» he says, «[was] that when
you study animal behavior, you're looking at the product of a kind of piece of clockwork machinery which was put there because of natural selection on generations of ancestors.
«One big limit was the idea that we can
study animal behavior, but we can not understand their minds because that's subjective.»
If the findings of those who
study animal behavior are to be accepted, power is an indispensable element in the preservation of the group life of the species in the animal world.
Although
she studied animal behavior for her Master's degree, she still timed her first baby's feeds with a stopwatch.
The switch to
studying animal behavior was, she says, «utterly serendipitous.»
«We have this romantic notion that big brains are good, but most animals don't work this way,» said Ken Cheng, who
studies animal behavior and information processing at Macquarie University in Australia.
«Many dogs maintain their puppy - like enthusiasm for social interactions throughout their life, whereas wolves grow out of this behavior and engage in more mature, abbreviated greetings as they age,» said Monique Udell, who
studies animal behavior at Oregon State University and co-authored the new study.
A number of students work with zookeepers and scientific staff in
studying animal behavior, keeping animals active and challenged, and promoting public transit to the zoo.
-LSB-...] All these amazing contradictions find an explanation and can cope with each other perfectly since we have established that not even today the behavior of man is not exclusively directed by reason and cultural tradition, but is still subject to all those laws that govern any instinctual behavior born on phylogenetic path, laws that we know very well from
studying the animal behavior.»
She has had a lifelong passion of observing and
studying animal behavior.
«It is evident that by the end of the 19th century, scientists who
studied animal behavior in natural environments learned that the mechanical approach could not explain all behavior.
These folks believe behaviorists have spent time (and money)
studying animal behavior in a formal educational setting, whereas trainers have an informal education.
She is also author of Fetching the Perfect Dog Trainer: Getting the Best for You and Your Dog and has contributed to numerous local and national publications.Katenna earned her Master's Degree from Brown University where
she studied animal behavior, learning and cognition.
She enjoys
studying animal behavior and working with shelter dogs and with owners looking for help training their pets.
I decided I needed to start
studying animal behavior.
Delgado is currently working on her doctorate in psychology at the University of California at Berkeley,
studying animal behavior and human - animal relationships.
Alyssa was raised in San Diego before earning her Biology degree at UC Davis, emphasizing in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior and
studying animal behavior.
She has a passion for patient care and is interested in
studying animal behavior more in depth in the future.
Mikel received her PhD from UC Berkeley, where
she studied animal behavior and the human - animal relationship.
I went to graduate school at the University of Florida and
studied animal behavior under Donald Dewsbury, one of the best known animal behaviorists in North America.
Carol has
studied animal behavior; researching many training methods and developing her own program of behavior modification.
She obtained her PhD in Psychology at UC Berkeley, where
she studied animal behavior and human - pet relationships.
After graduating, she hopes to get a master's degree
studying animal behavior and welfare, and plans to use that degree in her future as a dog trainer and possible veterinary technician.
Not exact matches
One might then judge that the exclusion of
animal purposes from the
study of
animal behavior today is an obstacle to progress that requires a changed model.
Only a few biologists have actually lived with
animals in their native habitats in order to
study their
behavior there, and the results are not always recognized as «scientific», since they are not readily repeatable in the fashion required by science.
If they are not relevant, then mere
behavior, as causally conditioned spatio - temporal changes and nothing more, is the only universal principle, and what we learn by
studying animals adds nothing (beyond unusual complexity or subtlety) to our concept of reality in general.
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.
As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the
study of
animal behavior.
It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of
study on the
behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long
study of the
behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large
animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its
behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»
Diane began her
studies observing
animal behavior over 30 years ago.
Studies of laboratory
animals have shown that even small doses of these chemicals impair attention, learning, memory, and
behavior.
Attachment theory stems from psychologist John Bowlby's
studies of maternal deprivation and
animal behavior research in the early 1950s.
The new
study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in
behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated
animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.
The
study wasn't about designing a new way of testing
animal behavior, either; the same test has been used in rodents.
A new
study by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found no evidence of increased aggressive
behavior toward strangers in an
animal model of the condition.
A 1999 critique of primate mirror self - recognition
studies in the journal
Animal behavior said that differences between species could be due to the conditions in which they were reared, and that it was premature to speculate as to how the skill relates to other cognitive abilities, such as inferring the mental states of others.
«We are
studying the nature versus nurture problem: how much of the brain's wiring and the
animal's
behavior is determined by genetics versus experience.
It is a rule that lies at the core of
studying animal and plant
behavior, and human society should be looked at no differently, as even technologically complex societies are still governed by EROI.
In an article recently published in the journal Evolutionary
Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience studies, animal behavior and prehistoric ca
Studies in Imaginative Culture, Coss examines archaeological evidence, genomics, neuroscience
studies, animal behavior and prehistoric ca
studies,
animal behavior and prehistoric cave art.
Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the
study of the
behavior and mental life of
animals other than human beings.