Search Results - "Animal behaviour"

Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies by Valletta, John Joseph, Torney, Colin, Kings, Michael, Thornton, Alex, Madden, Joah

“…In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and detailed data sets are outstripping our ability to analyse them…”
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Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas by Blumstein, Daniel T.

“…People have written about habituation, a process that leads to decreased responsiveness to a stimulus, as well as its counterpart, sensitization, or an…”
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Defining and assessing animal pain by Sneddon, Lynne U., Elwood, Robert W., Adamo, Shelley A., Leach, Matthew C.

“…The detection and assessment of pain in animals is crucial to improving their welfare in a variety of contexts in which humans are ethically or legally bound…”
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The use of multilayer network analysis in animal behaviour by Finn, Kelly R., Silk, Matthew J., Porter, Mason A., Pinter-Wollman, Noa

“…Network analysis has driven key developments in research on animal behaviour by providing quantitative methods to study the social structures of animal groups…”
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Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city by Sol, Daniel, Lapiedra, Oriol, González-Lagos, Cesar

“…While human-induced rapid environmental changes are putting many organisms at risk of extinction, others are doing better than ever. This raises the question…”
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An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity by Snell-Rood, Emilie C.

“…I outline how understanding the mechanism of behavioural plasticity is important for predicting how organisms will respond to rapidly changing and novel…”
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Association indices for quantifying social relationships: how to deal with missing observations of individuals or groups by Hoppitt, William J.E., Farine, Damien R.

“…Social network analysis has provided important insight into many population processes in wild animals. Constructing social networks requires quantifying the…”
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Culture and cultural evolution in birds: a review of the evidence by Aplin, Lucy M.

“…Social learning from the observation of knowledgeable individuals can allow behaviours, skills and techniques to spread across populations and transmit between…”
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Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview by Sih, Andrew

“…A key issue in animal behaviour is the need to understand variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change (HIREC) such as…”
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Effective use of Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients for association between two measured traits by Puth, Marie-Therese, Neuhäuser, Markus, Ruxton, Graeme D.

“…We examine the performance of the two rank order correlation coefficients (Spearman's rho and Kendall's tau) for describing the strength of association between…”
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Between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity within populations: causes and consequences by Dingemanse, Niels J., Wolf, Max

“…Behavioural traits are characterized by their labile expression: behavioural responses can, in principle, be up- and down-regulated in response to…”
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Estimating the robustness and uncertainty of animal social networks using different observational methods by Davis, Grace H., Crofoot, Margaret C., Farine, Damien R.

“…Social network analysis is quickly becoming an established framework to study the structure of animal social systems. To explore the social network of a…”
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The development of animal personality across ontogeny: a cross-species review by Cabrera, Doreen, Nilsson, Joshua R., Griffen, Blaine D.

“…Animal personality is defined as consistent individual behaviour over time and across contexts, yet most studies to date only measure behaviour within a single…”
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Bestial boredom: a biological perspective on animal boredom and suggestions for its scientific investigation by Burn, Charlotte C.

“…Boredom is likely to have adaptive value in motivating exploration and learning, and many animals may possess the basic neurological mechanisms to support it…”
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Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching by ASAB Ethical Committee/ABS Animal Care Committee

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Revisiting the open-field test: what does it really tell us about animal personality? by Perals, Daniel, Griffin, Andrea S., Bartomeus, Ignasi, Sol, Daniel

“…Animal personality has become a major topic in animal behaviour. Much recent progress has come from the use of the open-field test, which is routinely used to…”
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The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis by Bell, Alison M., Hankison, Shala J., Laskowski, Kate L.

“…There is increasing interest in individual differences in animal behaviour. Recent research now suggests that an individual's behaviour, once considered to be…”
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The cognition of ‘nuisance’ species by Barrett, Lisa P., Stanton, Lauren A., Benson-Amram, Sarah

“…Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other…”
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The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression by Hare, Brian, Wobber, Victoria, Wrangham, Richard

“…Experiments indicate that selection against aggression in mammals can have multiple effects on their morphology, physiology, behaviour and psychology, and that…”
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Personality, plasticity and predictability in sticklebacks: bold fish are less plastic and more predictable than shy fish by Jolles, Jolle W., Briggs, Helen D., Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G., Boogert, Neeltje J.

“…It is well established that animals often differ consistently from one another in their behaviour. Most work has focused on consistent differences in average…”
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