Sentences with phrase «study animal movements»

Remind students about why and how NM uses student data to study animal movement, behavior, and preservation.

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In animal studies, stationary chick and mouse fetuses have abnormal bones and joints, suggesting that movement is crucial to proper development.

One 2014 study based on modeling animal movement found that increasing vehicle density on existing roads, rather than adding more roads with lower density, resulted in fewer wildlife fatalities.

In earlier animal studies, the Andersen lab found that it is here, in the PPC, that the initial intent to make a movement is formed.

Peter Franek says that the scientists clearly were able to make out the calls of the fin whales to such detail that it might be useful even to the biologists who wish to study movement and sound communication patterns of these majestic animals.

To better determine the role of specific chemoattractants in type III hypersensitivity, lead author Yoshishige Miyabe, MD, PhD, a research fellow in Luster's lab, used multiphoton intravital microscopy — an imaging technology pioneered for studies of immune cell movements in living animals by CIID investigator and co-author Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD — to follow in real time the development of IC - induced arthritis in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis.

In the first study to assess the effects of shipping vessel noise on porpoises, researchers tagged seven harbor porpoises off the coast of Denmark with sensors that tracked the animals» movement and echolocation usage in response to underwater noise over about 20 hours.

Using «footprint DNA» from snow or mud could let them study animal numbers and movements more cheaply and without disturbing habitats.

The eavesdropping is already helping researchers study the animals» movements and behavior.

One interesting outcome of the study was to show that an animal's movement triggers more firing among nerves in the deeper layers than in those nearer the surface of the brain.

Your support will help us better understand the movement patterns of some of the most difficult to study animals in the ocean.

«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

A series of recent studies show that large animals appear to disproportionately drive nutrient movements.

A new study shows that flocks of different sizes behave differently, and could help explain how animals like birds and fish coordinate their movements.

For his postdoc, Guttal moved to the laboratory of Iain Couzin in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University to study self - organized movement in animal groups, returning to the interest that had drawn him to research years before.

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

Included are studies of physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, stress physiology, functional morphology and movement, animal sensation, computational and systems neuroscience, and environmental genomics.»

The first paper to use drones to record the movement of individual animals within groups, it is also among the first to study social interactions within those groups as they migrate.

In what is thought to be among the first studies of frustration in free - ranging animals, the findings, published online in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, suggest that animal tail movements reveal their emotional states, particularly the exasperation they feel when stymied during problem - solving tasks.

Movebank is an archive of animal movement data collected by scientists in the course of their studies.

With this tool, neuroscientists can use light to trigger or suppress neuronal firing and precisely manipulate animal behavior, allowing them to map circuits underlying normal brain functions and study their dysfunction in mood and movement disorders.

All of these cells were studied with a standard saccade task in which the animal made saccades from an initial fixation LED to a peripheral target LED which was presented for 500 ms.. The movement field of each neuron was determined by eliciting saccades to targets inside and neighboring the response field («movement field scan»).

This project substantially overlaps with ACE's other research goals, such as our social justice movement research and animal welfare research projects, insofar as many of the library entries cover the field of social movement studies as well as the latest animal welfare science.

Fields like social psychology and sociology, social movement studies, human - animal studies, animal welfare science, and political science are increasingly studying animal advocacy methods and the movement as a whole as a legitimate and worthwhile object for academic study and controlled experiment.

Ultimately, we plan to create a searchable and filterable database on the ACE website covering key studies, a resource for animal advocates as well as those who research animal advocacy as a field and social movement.

We also consider evidence directly connected to the intervention in question (for instance, studies of a particular implementation in an animal advocacy context) as well as evidence more distantly related (for instance, from general psychological studies or from sociological work done on other movements for social change).

This case study tackles similarities and differences between the movements, and offers observations relevant for contemporary animal advocates.

The study also identified several weaknesses in the U.S. animal protection movement, including the lack of transparency among non-profit shelters and inadequate or non-existent shelter regulation and oversight.

Credited as the «father of the motion picture,» Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the study of motion in time - lapse photography that documented the dynamics of human and animal movement.

His pioneering publication, Animal Locomotion (1887), included 781 plates, each a series of pictures that broke down the movement of a wide variety of animals — from horses, elephants, ostriches, and deer to men, women, and children — into discrete elements for study by scientists, artists, and others.

They study or track animal movements in detail and save species from extinction by applying appropriate rehabilitation steps.