Inter-individual variation and temperature-dependent antipredator behavior in the snake Tomodon dorsatus (Dipsadidae).

abstract：:Feeding experiences with low-quality foods can be improved when these foods are ingested in close temporal association with foods of higher nutritional quality. However, preference for low-quality foods in nature seems to be rather insensitive to past positive experiences and more related to their intrinsic nutritiona...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Catanese F,Distel RA,Fernández P,Villalba JJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social play is a window on cognitive and communicative abilities of species. Inter-specific play, in particular, is a fertile venue to explore the capacity to correctly perceive and interpret signals emitted by partners. Up to now, most studies have focussed on dog-human play due to the important implications such stu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Maglieri V,Bigozzi F,Riccobono MG,Palagi E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to changes in odorous environmental conditions, most species (ranging from lower invertebrates to mammals), demonstrate high adaptive behavioral performances. Complex natural chemical signals (i.e. odorous blends involved in food search), are particularly unstable and fluctuating, in quality, space and tim...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Masson C,Linster C

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult participants played computerised games of "Paper Scissors Rock". Participants in one group were told that they were playing against the computer, and those in the other group were told that they were playing against another participant in the adjacent room. The participant who won the most games would receive a ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lie C,Baxter J,Alsop B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cooperation in groups that are allowed to communicate (engage in "cheap talk") has been attributed to reputation-building and to cultural norms or culturally normal behavior. We tested these two theories by exposing groups of undergraduates to a public-goods social dilemma. Five groups were permitted to comm...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Baum WM,Paciotti B,Richerson P,Lubell M,McElreath R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Object exploration is an increasingly popular experimental paradigm in behavioral sciences. We have begun a series of studies with mice specifically looking at the parameters that influence behaviors in this test. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of object type on performance in the object explor...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Heyser CJ,Chemero A

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The influences of the mu blocker naloxone and the novel opioid delta receptor antagonist ICI, 154, 129 on videotaped encounters between individually-housed, male Swiss mice and anosmic male 'standard opponents' were assessed using a variety of ethological analyses. The effects of drugs were studied on individual eleme...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Brain PF,Brain S,Benton D

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was designed to investigate the effects of peripheral anosmia on the display of lordosis behaviour in orchidectomized rats primed with oestradiol benzoate and progesterone. Peripheral anosmia was induced by intranasal Zn SO4 application in rats trained to locate a food pellet buried under shavings. T...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chateau D,Aron C

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether rats' rates of licking or pressing a lever for 1% liquid sucrose delivered by a continuous reinforcement schedule would decrease (contrast) or increase (induction) when the upcoming period would allow access to 32% sucrose and whether such changes would be influenced by how long ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weatherly JN,Nurnberger JT,Arthur EI,King BM

更新日期：2005-08-31 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：:Many animal species hoard food by carrying it to their home area. In this experiment we evaluated the interaction between persistent (formalin) pain and food-hoarding behaviour. A food-hoarding apparatus, consisting of a home cage connected with an alley at the end of which were placed food pellets, was used to test (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Aloisi AM,Carli G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although animals typically prefer to exert less effort rather than more effort to obtain food, the present research shows that requiring greater effort to obtain food at a particular location appears to increase the value of that location. In Experiment 1, pigeons' initial preference for one feeder was significantly r...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Friedrich AM,Zentall TR

更新日期：2004-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research in the behavioral decision making literature has demonstrated that humans hyperbolically discount the subjective value of options as the number of options increases (Reed et al., 2012). These findings provide a cognitive-behavioral synthesis of the "choice overload" phenomenon, also known as the "parad...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kaplan BA,Reed DD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hosts of interspecific brood parasites often evolve antiparasitic defences, like the recognition and rejection of parasite's eggs. Most hosts use differences in coloration and maculation to discriminate between their own and parasitic eggs, but there are a few cases of hosts using the size of eggs as a cue. To recogni...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tosi-Germán RA,Tassino B,Reboreda JC

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) living in a large enclosure received food which varied in desirability and spatial distribution. Feeding and agonistic behaviour of four hierarchical subgroups were analyzed. In general, there was less aggression and improved feeding rates with dispersed food than with piled ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Belzung C,Anderson JR

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals coping with operant conditioning tasks often show behaviors that are not recorded by keys, levers and similar response transducers. Nevertheless, these adjunctive behaviors should not be disposed of by classifying them as incidental. Often they are found to be at least partially influenced by the experimentall...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cleaveland JM,Jäger R,Rössner P,Delius JD

更新日期：2003-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans respond to an infant crying with an increase in cortisol level and heightened alertness, a response interpreted as emotional contagion, a primitive form of empathy. Previous results are mixed when examining whether dogs might respond similarly to human distress. We examined whether domestic dogs, which have a l...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Yong MH,Ruffman T

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variation of reproductive success, an important determinant of the opportunity for sexual selection, is an outcome of competition within one sex for mating with members of the other sex. In promiscuous species, males typically compete for access to females, and their reproductive strategies are strongly related to the...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Borkowska A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many primates, infants possess distinctive coloration that changes as a function of age. This colour is thought to serve the purpose of eliciting caretaking behaviour from the mother as well as other conspecifics. The present study investigated the responses of adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) to pictu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gerald MS,Waitt C,Maestripieri D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that many behavior patterns cluster together in sequences that are organized to solve specific problems (e.g., foraging), a fruitful perspective within which to study behaviors is as distinct 'behavior systems'. Unlike many behavior systems that are widespread (e.g., anti-predator behavior, foraging, reproductio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pellis SM,Pellis VC,Pelletier A,Leca JB

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied seasonal habitat use of female, mixed-sex and male groups in a free-ranging mouflon (Ovis gmelini) population. The three group types differed in the use of the five different habitats (forests, broom moorlands, heather moorlands, meadows and rocky areas) only in spring (lambing period) and in autumn (ruttin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cransac N,Hewison AJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent urine provides animals with a large amount of information, from the identity of the animal through its physical condition to social status. Many studies therefore focus on rodent urine-marking behaviour and use marking frequency as an indicator of social status or competitive ability. However, marking, like man...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lantová P,Brixová L,Lanta V

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to other megafauna managed in zoos and aquariums, the current state of welfare for the Nile hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is poorly understood. Complex behavior and physiological characteristics make hippos a difficult species to manage. Thus, hippos in managed care are currently at risk for a decreas...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tennant KS,Segura VD,Morris MC,Snyder KD,Bocian D,Maloney D,Maple TL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although natural selection may favour the evolution of an optimal brood size, unpredictable environmental factors can intervene to render the brood either considerably larger or smaller than this optimum. The question therefore arises as to how parents should respond to unusually large or small litters. Solutions to t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mendl M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When competing for mates, males typically exhibit higher rates of intrasexual aggression and courtship than females. Operational sex ratio, represented here by adult sex ratio (ASR) as a proxy, is likely the best predictor of this competition, which typically increases between members of one sex as members of the oppo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chuard PJC,Brown GE,Grant JWA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-place learning based on food association was investigated in eight food-restricted Nile tilapias. Each fish was individually housed for 10 days in an experimental tank for adjustments to laboratory conditions, and fed daily in excess. Feeding was then interrupted for 17 days. Training was then started, based on a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Delicio HC,Barreto RE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although contexts play many roles during training and also during testing, over the last four decades theories of learning have predominantly focused on one or the other of the two families of functions served by contexts. In this selective review, we summarize recent data concerning these two functions and their inte...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Urcelay GP,Miller RR

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic mild stress (CMS) is a widely accepted animal model relevant to depression that among other consequences, is chiefly known to induce anhedonia, often assessed as decreased preference for sucrose solution. CMS is also known to affect cognition, particularly memory tasks. In this study we have employed the multi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Raya J,Girardi CEN,Esumi LA,Ferreira LBT,Hipólide DC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biparental species, each parent represents a semi-independent source of variable caregiving. The nature of care may differ between parents, and the type of care offspring seek is likely to change across development. We asked if caregiving differed between prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) mothers and fathers, and...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Finton CJ,Ophir AG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00