Sentences with phrase «studying animal behaviour»

We've tried studying animal behaviour and electromagnetic signals, but predicting quakes remains impossible.

Choice chambers are an investigative method used to study animal behaviour and to determine the favoured conditions for a habitat.

Swansea University (Wales, UK) Laboratory for Animal Movement has been developing new technologies to study animal behaviours and use accelerometers to quantify how much an animal moves in the three dimensions.

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ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

Such reactions affect the rodents» behaviour and potentially confound the results of animal studies, the study suggests.

Morrissey adds that the unique coding property of the mPFC identified in the study may support its role in the formation, maintenance, and updating of associative knowledge structures that help support flexible and adaptive behaviour in rats and other animals.

King presented her research last week at the summer conference of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour in St Andrews.

The results of this study indicate that non-genetic transmission of behaviour can play an important role in shaping animal personality.

The scientists are now expanding their research to larger numbers of animals and they are also planning a study to look at addiction - like behaviours in obese people to see how well their results translate to humans.

The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.

As an eco-physiologist, Halsey studies how animals expend energy, and how they adapt their behaviour and physiology to reduce their energy costs.

Ultimately, the study contributes to our understanding of the complexity inherent to disease transmission and highlights the importance of changes in behaviour of sick animals for predicting the outcome of outbreaks.

To study this, Mallon turned to computer simulations developed by Dr. Don Henderson, who specializes in the floating behaviour of animals in water.

Animal behaviour researchers in the UK and Brazil have found that dogs lick their mouths as a response to angry human faces, according to new study.

While these phenomena are well known in animals, the study is a first of its kind for observing this behaviour in bacteria.

When scientists studying behaviour considered animals to be little more than stimulus - bound and instinct - wired robots, to be accused of anthropomorphism was a social calamity.

Studies of germ - free rodents and other animals on gut - disrupting antibiotics show that changing microbial communities can impair memory and cause anxiety - like behaviours.

This unexpected aphrodisiac may open the bedroom door for microbiologists to study sexual behaviour in many poorly understood species — and perhaps even in the earliest animals.

In the study, published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, all of the squirrels showed clear improvement over successive attempts with the box, becoming more efficient in adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the task.

Haslam studies the evolution of behaviour and culture and thinks archaeology has focused too much on the highly unusual human animal.

Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.

SCIENTISTS who study animal intelligence walk a fine line: they must resist the temptation to anthropomorphise animals while analysing behaviour through the lens of common descent.

The study, to be published in the October issue of Animal Behaviour, also found that bird odor was a more reliable predictor of reproductive success than a male's size or his plumage.

By capturing 58 male nursery - web spiders in the wild, researchers have now addressed both issues in a study published online this month in Animal Behaviour.

That book, Beast and Man: The roots of human nature, drew on her studies of animal behaviour.

By studying ringed individuals, the researchers were able to build up a detailed picture of the birds» feeding patterns (Animal Behaviour, vol 44, p 41).

A study from Uppsala University sheds new light on the pervasiveness of same - sex sexual behaviour in the animal kingdom.

Pinet and colleagues studied Barau's petrels over two years to see if the animals adjusted their behaviour according to moonlight levels.

Indeed, after the rook paper appeared, Christine Drea of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, published a study showing that spotted hyenas can cooperate on a similar task (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2009.06.030).

So the scientific study of animal behaviour was inevitably «marked from birth by its anthropomorphic parentage».

The insights come from studies of our remarkable tendency to anthropomorphise, which may explain everything from our opinions on abortion and animal rights to our behaviour when gambling.

The researcher reminds us that the study of the modelling, organisation and coordination of the animal behaviour is a clear example of multidisciplinary collaboration: «biologists participate to perform the experiments in the laboratory and provide real data, in coordination with mathematicians and physicists who propose and solve the models.»

Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Talk: «Bet - hedging in response to mate limitation in the spiny leaf stick insect» 2017

Student Travel Awards to the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference (2003 and 2004) and the Australian Neuroscience Society conference (2004)

VEMCO fish tracking and monitoring equipment enables researchers to study the behaviour and migration patterns of thousands of marine and freshwater animals over months and years and across vast distances.

To study these questions we combine disciplines of animal behaviour, ecology, evolutionary genetics and genomics.

This work complies with the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour / Animal Behaviour Society guidelines for the use of animals in research, and received approval from the Ethical Review Committee at the University of Sussex.

In a new study published in the March issue of the journal Animal Behaviour, Luncz and her colleagues investigated whether these cultural variations are equally efficient, or whether some come at a cost.

He is President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Fellow of the International Ornithological Union and has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Foundation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Wiener - Anspach foundation amongst other awards; he is funded by the Australian Research Council.

«Emerging studies have suggested that pathogenic and non-pathogenic gut bacteria might influence mood - related symptoms and even behaviour in animals and humans.

Animal studies have also shown certain strains of Lactobacillus exert a positive effect on anxiety - related behaviour and responses to stress (13,18).

Results from animal studies recently likened the brain activity and behaviour of rats bingeing on sugar to those seen in drug addicts.

Zoology or Animal Biology is that field of science which studies about animals, their behaviour, development, habits, evolution, structure, and classification.

The study, published by Springer in the Animal Cognition journal, suggests that the reason for cats» unresponsive behaviour might be traced back to the early domestication of the species, contrasting this with the relationship of humans to dogs.

A study released this month in Applied Animal Behaviour Science finds that environmental factors and even owner characteristics have more to do with whether or not a dog will be aggressive than merely breed type.

View some of the studies about positive reinforcement and the negative effects of adverse dog training methods at Applied Animal Behaviour Science or the Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

But they were conducted at a time when our understanding of both human and animal behaviour was in its infancy and our ability to study it was very limited.

Dr Samantha Gaines, Deputy Head of the Companion Animals Department from RSPCA, hopes the findings of the study will help to in some way combat the rising trend of dogs being given up as a result of behaviour problems, namely separation anxiety.

In a November 2016 study published in the peer - reviewed journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, researchers looked at the relationship between scent and security for cats in homes, and how their findings might relate to settings such as animal sheAnimal Behaviour Science, researchers looked at the relationship between scent and security for cats in homes, and how their findings might relate to settings such as animal sheanimal shelters.

The study, accepted for publication in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, indeed found that goldens rate among the least aggressive breeds.