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Fluctuating Asymmetry of Fallow Deer Antlers Is Associated with Weapon Damage but Not Tactical Behaviour during Fights by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Gammell, Martin P.

“…The horns and antlers borne by the males of many species of ungulate are considered to be both badges of quality, and armaments for use during intraspecific…”
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Information gathering during contests: The relationship between lateralisation and contestant behaviour during fallow deer fights by Jennings, Dómhnall J.

“…•Lateral displays are thought to convey information about individual fighting ability to opponents during contests.•I investigated whether contest structure…”
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Investment in fighting in relation to body condition, age and dominance rank in the male fallow deer, Dama dama by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Carlin, Caitríona M., Hayden, Thomas J., Gammell, Martin P.

“…According to life history theory, males of iteroparous species are expected to trade off investment between current and future reproduction based on age…”
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Dissociations in the Effect of Delay on Object Recognition: Evidence for an Associative Model of Recognition Memory by Tam, Shu K. E., Robinson, Jasper, Jennings, Dómhnall J., Bonardi, Charlotte

“…Rats were administered 3 versions of an object recognition task: In the spontaneous object recognition task (SOR) animals discriminated between a familiar…”
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Some appetitive procedures for examining associative learning in the mouse: Implications for psychopathology by Bonardi, Charlotte, Bartle, Craig, Bowles, Kathryn, de Pulford, Felicity, Jennings, Dómhnall J.

“…There are few demonstrations of basic associative learning phenomena using appetitive procedures in mice. This article describes procedures for obtaining four…”
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Sleep in the wild: the importance of individual effects and environmental conditions on sleep behaviour in wild boar by Mortlock, Euan, Silovský, Václav, Güldenpfennig, Justine, Faltusová, Monika, Olejarz, Astrid, Börger, Luca, Ježek, Miloš, Jennings, Dómhnall J, Capellini, Isabella

“…Sleep serves vital physiological functions, yet how sleep in wild animals is influenced by environmental conditions is poorly understood. Here we use…”
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In utero accumulated steroids predict neonate anti‐predator response in a wild mammal by Amin, Bawan, Jennings, Dómhnall J., Smith, Adam F., Quinn, Matthew, Chari, Srivats, Haigh, Amy, Matas, Devorah, Koren, Lee, Ciuti, Simone

“…Behavioural variation at the individual level has been shown to play an important role in animal ecology and evolution. Whereas most studies have focused on…”
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Neonate personality affects early-life resource acquisition in a large social mammal by Amin, Bawan, Jennings, Dómhnall J, Norman, Alison, Ryan, Andrew, Ioannidis, Vasiliki, Magee, Alice, Haughey, Hayley-Anne, Haigh, Amy, Ciuti, Simone

“…Abstract Although it is widely acknowledged that animal personality plays a key role in ecology, current debate focuses on the exact role of personality in…”
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Right-sided bias in fallow deer terminating parallel walks: evidence for lateralization during a lateral display by Jennings, Dómhnall J.

“…Lateral displays during agonistic interactions are assumed to provide contestants the opportunity to assess the opponent’s quality. Once an individual has…”
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Weapon damage is associated with contest dynamics but not mating success in fallow deer (Dama dama) by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Boys, Richard J., Gammell, Martin P.

“…Antlers function as primary weapons during fights for many species of ungulate. We examined the association between antler damage and (i) contest dynamics: the…”
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The effects of stimulus distribution form during trace conditioning by Bonardi, Charlotte, Jennings, Dómhnall J

“…Three experiments examined the effect of distribution form of the trace interval on trace conditioning. In Experiments 1 and 2, two groups of rats were…”
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Limited evidence that visual lateralization is associated with fitness in rutting male fallow deer by Jennings, Dómhnall J.

“…Under certain models of animal competition, individuals are expected to gather information about opponent quality in order to determine whether they should…”
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Learning About the CS During Latent Inhibition: Preexposure Enhances Temporal Control by Bonardi, Charlotte, Brilot, Ben, Jennings, Dómhnall J

“…In 3 experiments, rats were given nonreinforced preexposure to an auditory stimulus, after which this stimulus and a second, novel cue were paired with food…”
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Effects of dorsal hippocampal damage on conditioning and conditioned-response timing: A pooled analysis by Tam, Shu K.E., Jennings, Dómhnall J., Bonardi, Charlotte

“…ABSTRACT Behavioral findings suggest that the dorsal hippocampus (DHPC) plays a role in timing of appetitive conditioned responding. The present article…”
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SSCC TD: a serial and simultaneous configural-cue compound stimuli representation for temporal difference learning by Mondragón, Esther, Gray, Jonathan, Alonso, Eduardo, Bonardi, Charlotte, Jennings, Dómhnall J

“…This paper presents a novel representational framework for the Temporal Difference (TD) model of learning, which allows the computation of configural…”
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Blocking by fixed and variable stimuli: Effects of stimulus distribution on blocking by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Bonardi, Charlotte

“…An experiment with rats compared the ability of fixed and variable duration cues to produce blocking. Rats in group B (Blocking) were trained that both fixed-…”
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David's score: a more appropriate dominance ranking method than Clutton-Brock et al.'s index by Gammell, Martin P., de Vries, Han, Jennings, Dómhnall J., Carlin, Caitrı́ona M., Hayden, Thomas J.

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Lateralization during lateral display and its relationship with antler size and symmetry in fallow deer (Dama dama) by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Gammell, Martin P.

“…Individuals often display a preference for one side of their body during aggressive encounters. This may be a lateralized preference for using one structure of…”
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Dorsal hippocampal involvement in conditioned-response timing and maintenance of temporal information in the absence of the CS by Tam, Shu K. E., Jennings, Dómhnall J., Bonardi, Charlotte

“…Involvement of the dorsal hippocampus (DHPC) in conditioned-response timing and maintaining temporal information across time gaps was examined in an appetitive…”
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Third-party intervention behaviour during fallow deer fights: the role of dominance, age, fighting and body size by Jennings, Dómhnall J., Carlin, Caitríona M., Hayden, Thomas J., Gammell, Martin P.

“…Third-party interventions of dyadic contests are often explained by appealing to high-level cognitive processes such as coalition formation between group…”
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