Rats (Rattus norvegicus) and pigeons (Columbia livia) are sensitive to the distance to food, but only rats request more food when distance increases.

abstract：:To cope with the variable environment, animals are continuously required to learn novel behaviours or, in certain cases, to inhibit automatic and previously learned behaviours. Traditionally, inhibition has been regarded as cognitively demanding and studied mostly in primates, other mammals and birds, using laboratory...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lucon-Xiccato T,Bertolucci C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal movement behaviour is intensively investigated with capture-mark-recapture studies. For the analysis of such experiments, the influence of marking technique, handling and translocation of marked animals on movement pattern is of crucial importance since it may mask or overrule the effects of the main research q...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heidinger IM,Poethke HJ,Bonte D,Hein S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 20th century there has been considerable progress in the study of animal cognition, based on essential ideas that were developed earlier. These essential ideas include the metaphors of the animal, the questions, the sources of hypotheses, and the types of explanations. The progress cannot be generally chara...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Church RM

更新日期：2001-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments examined whether external contextual stimuli can acquire inhibitory properties through a simple differential context-reinforcement procedure. Rats first received discrimination training sessions in which an electric footshock was consistently delivered in one context, but not in a second, diffe...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maes JH,Vossen JM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subterranean termites live underground and build tunnel networks to obtain food and nesting space. After obtaining food, termites return to their nests to transfer it. The efficiency of termite movement through the tunnels is directly connected to their survival. Tunnels should therefore be optimized to ensure highly ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sim S,Kang SH,Lee SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testosterone and cortisol are hormones expected to play a major role in competitive behaviours (i.e. aggression), and are related to rank and hierarchical stability. Through a non-invasive technique, we analyzed faecal testosterone (FTM(1)) and cortisol (FCM(2)) metabolites of dominant and subordinate males from two w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mendonça-Furtado O,Edaes M,Palme R,Rodrigues A,Siqueira J,Izar P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individualistic voices are important for establishing personalized relationships among individuals. In young animals, individual vocal identity is affected by permanent changes of the acoustics due to the growth of their vocal apparatus. Different acoustic variables change uncoordinatedly, so vocal individuality shoul...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lapshina EN,Volodin IA,Volodina EV,Frey R,Efremova KO,Soldatova NV

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female and male animals often choose mates based upon the complementarity of their courtship behaviours and preferences. The importance of this fact on the evolutionary dynamics of populations has long been appreciated. What has not been appreciated is the role that social learning might play in the transmission of sy...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Freeberg TM

更新日期：2000-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a shaping procedure for training Florida red-bellied cooters, Pseudemys nelsoni, to dislodge clear plastic bottles to obtain food pellets. The animals were then trained in a 2-choice problem to choose only the bottle containing pellets. All nine turtles learned the task of knocking over bottles for food. ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Davis KM,Burghardt GM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades there has been great progress in discovering the conditions under which cue competition occurs during animal learning. In humans, however, the evidence remains equivocal regarding the degree to which stimuli compete with one another for behavioral control. We report here the results of a single exper...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Stahlman WD,McWaters M,Christian E,Knapp E,Fritch A,Mailloux JR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four rats obtained food on fixed-time (FT) 1-, 4-, and 16-min schedules. During FT schedules, a lever press produced a timeout period during which food could not be delivered. When timeout was in effect, a lever press ended the timeout period and reinstated the FT schedule. In different conditions, the timing of the F...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lydersen T

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial expressions have been extensively used to assess emotions in humans and thus could be extended to other species that also display facial movements. In mice both painful and fearful situations have been associated with particular shifts in facial expressions. Like other species, mice frequently show a great inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lecorps B,Féron C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biobehavioural analysis of activity anorexia suggests that the motivation for physical activity is regulated by food supply and body weight. In the present experiment, food allocation was varied within subjects by prefeeding food-deprived rats 0, 5, 10 and 15 g of food before sessions of lever pressing for wheel-run...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Belke TW,Pierce WD,Jensen K

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examined defensive burying in Tsukuba High- and Low-Emotional rats (THE and TLE). The THE rats showed significantly more defensive burying and more immobility than the TLE rats. The TLE rats were more active and started prod-investigation faster than the THE rats. Some TLE rats bit the prod immediately afte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wada Y,Makino J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how differential payoffs affect the temporal discrimination of humans. In a temporal bisection task, participants learned to make one response after a short sample and another after a long sample. When presented with a range of intermediate samples, the proportion of responses fitted well a Gaussian-li...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cambraia R,Bugallo M,Vasconcelos M,Machado A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between persistence, as measured by resistance to change, and resurgence has been examined with nonhuman animals but not systematically with humans. The present study examined persistence and resurgence with undergraduate students engaging in a computer task for points exchangeable for money. In Phase 1, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kuroda T,Cançado CR,Podlesnik CA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated in 5- and 8-year-olds, as well as in adults, the effect of verbal counting on temporal discrimination behavior in a generalization task with two duration ranges in order to test the scalar timing property. The results showed that counting improved temporal sensitivity in all age groups, ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Clément A,Droit-Volet S

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recourse to anthropomorphism, folk psychology, or discontinuist thought, in order to take into account the richness of animal cognitive processes and of their evolution, is of some heuristic value. However, in the absence of recognised criteria allowing the hypothesised behavioural discontinuities between species to b...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vidal JM,Vancassel M,Quris R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the possible role of neuroanatomical features in Pavlovian conditioning, via computer simulations with layered, feedforward artificial neural networks. The networks' structure and functioning are described by a strongly bottom-up model that takes into account the roles of hippocampal and dopami...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Sánchez JM,Galeazzi JM,Burgos JE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary exercise by rats running in a freely rotating wheel (free wheel) produces conditioned taste avoidance (CTA) of a flavored solution consumed before running [e.g., Lett, B.T., Grant, V.L., 1996. Wheel running induces conditioned taste aversion in rats trained while hungry and thirsty. Physiol. Behav. 59, 699-7...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Forristall JR,Hookey BL,Grant VL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual cannibalism is a widespread phenomenon among a few animal taxa. Its occurrence is interpreted as female and/or male optimal reproductive decisions or as a non-adaptive side effect of selection for efficiently foraging females. In spite of the amount of research addressed at understanding its evolutionary origin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fernández-Montraveta C,González JM,Cuadrado M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term (within-session) and long-term (between-session) habituation of exploratory behavior was studied in rats, hamsters and gerbils. Subjects were observed in an open field containing four different objects during three 15-min sessions with an 8-14 h interval between each session. Their exploratory activity was ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Poucet B,Durup M,Thinus-Blanc C

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have suggested that non-human primates have good individual recognition abilities, that social stimuli can serve as discriminative stimuli in learning tests and that visual access to social objects or events can be a reinforcer for operant behaviour. Intensified research efforts comparing the effectivenes...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Anderson JR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 109 copulations was observed in six male-female pairs from four species of large Felidae. The mean intromission durations were 3.0 sec for Asian leopards (Panthera pardus), 3.3 sec for African leopards (Panthera pardus), 12.9 sec for snow leopards (Uncia uncia), 2.3 sec for spotted jaguars (Panthera onca), ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lanier DL,Dewsbury DA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fish Aidablennius sphynx, in which males continuously care for up to 7000 eggs throughout the breeding season, females prefer to mate with males that already guard eggs. The present study shows that this preference appears to be adaptive because the probability of eggs being cannibalized decreased with brood si...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kraak SB

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some models of performance assume that behavior depends on environmental quantities (for example, rates of reinforcement) that are defined over intervals of fixed duration. Although such window models may serve as useful approximations, they are incompatible with well-known properties of behavior (for instance, sensit...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tonneau F

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that apes, dogs and horses seem to be able to attribute attentive states to humans. Subjects had to choose between two persons: one who was able to see the animal and one who was not. Using a similar paradigm, we tested a species that does not rely strongly on visual cues, the domestic pig ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Nawroth C,Ebersbach M,von Borell E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to discriminate short or long durations of houselight illumination using a choice procedure. During the test phase of each trial, the left and right levers were presented with an auditory cue above one of them on (cued lever) while the other was off (uncued lever). The auditory cue was presented imme...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Santi A,Stanford L,Coyle J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unclear whom animals select to huddle with for thermoregulation. In this study, we investigated whom Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) mothers huddled with-their young offspring or other adult group members-when there is need for thermoregulation. We used a focal-animal sampling method, targeting 17 females at K...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ueno M,Nakamichi M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the use of ventilatory frequency (VF) as an indicator of stress in the Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.). Firstly, we tested the relationship between VF and plasma cortisol after confinement. Confined fish showed higher VF and plasma cortisol levels, but the latter continued to increase signif...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barreto RE,Volpato GL

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00