Sentences with phrase «who study animal»

There is even a name for this phenomenon among scientists who study animal behavior: «counterfreeloading»!

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.

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.

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.

«It's not so much that the jury is out, but that the jury has been dismissed before the trial has begun,» says Mike Meredith, a neuroscientist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, who studies animal pheromones.

«There are different kinds of rights,» says Andrew Knight, who studies animal welfare and ethics at the University of Winchester, UK.

«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.

«They basically rub their hindquarters on the long grass, which spreads the paste,» said Kevin Theis, an evolutionary ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, who studies the animals.

«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.

Can a rural sociologist who studied animal husbandry in the 1950s have anything to say about the way high - tech products are accepted into the marketplace?

Can a rural sociologist who studied animal husbandry in the 1950s have anything to say about the way high - tech products...

«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.

This issue was compellingly explored in Scientific American this week by Marc Bekoff, who studies animals» behavior and awareness and is a proponent of what he calls «compassionate conservation»:

Not exact matches

(Hanna Tuomisto, who in 2011 conducted a study at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, found that growing meats in - vitro would use 35 % to 60 % less energy, emit 80 % to 95 % less greenhouse gas and use around 98 % less land than conventionally produced animal meat.)

Animals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their tAnimals can similarly be represented by human beings who have devoted themselves to studying how animals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their tanimals suffer at human hands and how Christian teaching has supported and encouraged their torture.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

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.»

The fish is considered a local delicacy, and if the legend is true, the study of the Cascadura and other animals and agricultural products will ensure Trinidad has enough resources to feed all of the visitors who eventually will return.

The only animals Rozin found during the course of his studies who exhibited true, laboratory - proven preference for chile, were two chimpanzees and a dog, all of which had strong relationships with humans.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

It is a world of horses that run and jump in a green, rolling countryside, studied by members of a select coterie who are, more often than not, as elegant as the animals they follow.

It is interesting that the study of scientists from different countries who studied children's passion for different animals, showed that most children wanted to see namely a dog as a four - legged friend.

Thankfully, as someone who has studied the effects of chronic stress in animals and in people, I knew that claims like Dr. Narvaez's are not supported by data and instead rest on a fundamental misreading of stress research.

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

We hope that our article will encourage people to undertake these studies so that we can provide solid advice for pregnant women who don't eat much in the way of animal - derived foods,» said Rogne.

When the researchers presented plans for their study to tribe members who were trained research assistants, the assistants protested that the experiment — which involved watching children play with toy animals — was not culturally appropriate.

As Manuela Carneiro, a researcher who took part in the study published in «Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety», informs SINC: «This is due to the type of diet these animals have — strictly carrion from domestic and wild hunting species — because the consumption of hunting species increases the likelihood of ingesting lead.»

«It's the kind of result a lot of people wish wouldn't happen,» says Douglas Wahlsten, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada who has studied how animals react to experimenters.

The findings are interesting, says René Hen, a neuroscientist who studies depression at Columbia University in New York, but «animal models of depression are very imperfect.»

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

Other groups have attempted to induce PANDAS in animals, says James Leckman, a pediatric psychiatry researcher at Yale University, who was not involved in the study, but the results from those studies were inconsistent.

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.

This need for energy places hard limits on what animals can do and how big they can be,» said McClain, who was a co-author on the study.

They conclude: «Contrary to existing theory that characterizes the lone attacker as sophisticated (i.e. alpha personalities), this study shows that, in fact, lone wolf terrorists are often betas who evolve similarly to the animal hierarchy.»

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

An acquaintance at NIH, who also knew Bartke, suggested that the two scientists study the animals» abnormal reproductive endocrinology together.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

Yet, as Collins, a biologist at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences who studies the mechanics of neural circuits, notes, «Even the simplest animal with the simplest neural circuits have so much going on.»

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

«They are almost without doubt actual footprints of a bipedally - walking animal,» says Robin Crompton at the University of Liverpool, UK, who was not involved in the study but who has analysed other hominin footprints.

Hanna Granroth - Wilding, who led the study, said: «Our knowledge of disease in wild animals has tended to focus on the individual, but our study shows that we need to pay more attention to the broader consequences of disease to fully appreciate the role that it plays in wild populations, especially those whose numbers may be under threat.»

«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.

«Our study was conducted in a supervised setting, by researchers experienced in working with kids with autism spectrum disorders who understand the needs and requirements of the animals,» Dr. O'Haire said.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

Diana Reiss, a comparative psychologist at Hunter College in New York City who was involved in the dolphin and elephant mirror self - recognition studies, draws a distinction between animals using a mirror spontaneously and monkeys that do so after extensive training.

Researchers who conduct animal studies often don't use simple safeguards against biases that have become standard in human clinical trials — or at least they don't report doing so in their scientific papers, making it impossible for readers to ascertain the quality of the work, an analysis of more than 2500 journal articles shows.

Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the study, says the findings echo those in animals, which are also more likely to produce boys during times of plenty, whereas female mice with low blood sugar also seem more prone to producing girls.