Introducing anthropomorphism, discontinuities and anecdotes to question them.

abstract：:Both the shape of the electric pulses and their rhythm of emission serve in communication in weakly-electric mormyrid fish. Because the pulses emitted by a given individual show very little variability, whereas the rhythm of emission is highly variable, the mormyrids electric emission can be considered to be the repet...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Teyssedre C,Serrier J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the development of spatial behaviour of the domestic chicken is influenced by light exposure of the embryo, as is known to be the case for some other lateralized visual functions. Ninety-six chicks were incubated in the dark or exposed to light during the final days of incubation. Half of the c...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Wichman A,Rogers LJ,Freire R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forced Swimming Test (FST) models behavioural despair in animals by loss of motivation to respond or the refusal to escape. The present study was aimed at characterizing genetic (genotype and gender) and environmental factors (age/stage of disease and rearing conditions: C, standard; H, early postnatal handling; EE, e...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Torres-Lista V,Giménez-Llort L

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pigeon earned its daily food by pecking a key according to reinforcement schedules that produced food about once per day. Fixed-interval (FI), Fixed-time (FT), and various complex schedules were arranged to demonstrate the degree to which a scalloped pattern of responding remained. Pausing continued until about an h...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Eckerman DA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural responses to repeated trials in captivity can be driven by many factors including rearing environment, population of origin, habituation to captivity/trial conditions and an individual's behavioural type (e.g., bold versus shy). We tested the effect of rearing environment (captive raised common-garden vers...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gruber J,Whiting MJ,Brown G,Shine R

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bumble bees were trained to discriminate between two visual patterns, one of which was rewarding (S+) and one of which was unrewarding (S-). Subsequently, they were tested for discrimination between two non-rewarding patterns: the top halves of the training patterns, the bottom halves or the side halves. Three conditi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Thivierge J,Plowright C,Chan T

更新日期：2002-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ctenodactylus gundi, a colonial rodent inhabiting saharian Atlas, is often seen standing at the top of the rocks. At more or less regular intervals, another conspecific is taking the place of the "resident" animal. This relief impues only amicable reliationships and is to be considered as a kind of cooperation. The fu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gouat P,Ggouat J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six male rats, maintained on a 23-h food deprivation regime, were trained on a DRL learning schedule. During pretraining (CRF) rats were placed in two groups according to speed in obtaining the criterion (good and poor learners). The performance of good and poor learners, injected with lysine vasopressin (LVP) ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Alliot J,Alexinsky T

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prenatally stressed (PS) rat shows enhanced conditioned fear and increased behavioral inhibition in response to footshock compared to control (CON) rats. It is unclear whether this facilitated learning will occur only with aversive stimulation, or if it will also be observed in the context of positive reinforcemen...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bruner NR,Salm AK,Anderson KG

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This longitudinal study describes the functional development of locomotion in the woodmouse, Apodemus sylvaticus . It shows that postnatal day (PND) 11 is a critical age in the acquisition of independence. Locomotion develops in successive stages before reaching the adult pattern (walking) at PND 11. Intermediate patt...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pontet A,Schenk F

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primates flexibly change their grooming behavior depending on group size and composition to maintain social relationships among group members. However, how drastic social changes influence their grooming behavior remains unclear. We observed the grooming behavior of adult female Japanese macaques in two groups tempora...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kurihara Y,Nishikawa M,Mochida K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway rat subjects were exposed for either 3 or 10 days to conspecific demonstrators eating a cinnamon-flavoured, protein-deficient diet. While in contact with their demonstrators, and for several days thereafter, subjects were offered a choice between the cinnamon-flavoured, protein-deficient diet that their demonst...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galef BG Jr,Whiskin EE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals that are potential prey do not respond equally to direct and indirect cues related to risk of predation. Based on differential responses to cues, three hypotheses have been proposed to explain spatial variation in vigilance behavior. The predator-vigilance hypothesis proposes that prey increase vigilance where...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hall LK,Day CC,Westover MD,Edgel RJ,Larsen RT,Knight RN,McMillan BR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social play behaviours were investigated in 17 young rhesus monkeys Macaca mulatta, belonging to a large captive group, at three ages: 3/4, 4/5 and 5/6 months. Play initiatives were recorded (TO/BY) and the infants' partners were divided into five age groups (mothers, adults, similar-age infants, 1-yr-old infants and ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tartabini A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of trail communication by red wood-ants, Formica aquilonia Yarrow, foraging to sugar baits, was investigated by providing a laboratory colony with aqueous sucrose at two novel feeding sites, with a third site, providing no food, as a control. During trials, the sites were connected to the nest by paper bridges...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lamb AE,Ollason JG

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the ability of Octopus vulgaris to prey on bivalve molluscs showing that octopuses exhibited the same behavioural pattern irrespective of the prey species. When the initial pulling method did not result efficient octopuses skipped to drilling accompanied by an increase in the handling time. A compl...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fiorito G,Gherardi F

更新日期：1999-05-03 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：:The ability to rehearse possible future courses of action in the mind is an important feature of advanced social cognition in humans, and the "social brain" hypothesis implies that it might also be a feature of primate social cognition. We tested two chimpanzees, six orangutans and 63 children aged 3-7 years on a set ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dunbar RI,McAdam MR,O'connell S

更新日期：2005-06-30 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：:Predation is a very powerful force that shapes many ungulate traits. It is widely known that increasing vigilance intensity is costly and leads to a decline of forage intake. Consequently, ungulates gather into larger groups to reduce an individual vigilance burden by using the "many eyes" effect and to enhance their ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Blank DA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Java sparrows were exposed to a mirror and a frosted mirror, a mirror and a live bird, a mirror and a live bird with frosted screen, a closed circuit TV monitor and a TV program or the closed circuit monitor and an upside down monitor. The birds showed strong preference for the self-image on the mirror, the live bird ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Watanabe S

更新日期：2002-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:When the same set of individuals are placed in different social contexts, some groups members often experience a change in dominance status. We examined the context-dependence of social status using a group fusion protocol in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). Six individuals were matched for size and se...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Earley RL,Dugatkin LA

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Four pigeons were trained to peck a key under different values of a temporally defined independent variable (T) and different probabilities of reinforcement (p). Parameter T is a fixed repeating time cycle and p the probability of reinforcement for the first response of each cycle T. Two dependent variables were used:...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dembo M,De Penfold JB,Ruiz R,Casalta H

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaklings serve as a buffer, allowing an increase in the overall prospect of offspring survival. Whereas birds are able to directly determine which offspring to invest in via selective feeding, multiparous mammals have fewer methods of excluding weaklings from milk provision. In pigs the maternal investment strategy i...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Skok J

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:There is growing evidence that a change in reward magnitude or value alters interval timing, indicating that motivation and timing are not independent processes as was previously believed. The present paper reviews several recent studies, as well as presenting some new evidence with further manipulations of reward val...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galtress T,Marshall AT,Kirkpatrick K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that humans' response to a single stimulus (S1) is determined by what follows S1's associates. The experiment used a sensory preconditioning (SPC) design where S1 was associated with both S2 and S3 on separate trials before establishing relationships between these latter stimuli with an ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Craddock P,Renaux C,Lefèvre F,Nelson JB,Molet M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as a promising model organism for affective or cognitive neuroscience research, and may be useful to study the interplay between memory and anxiety-related states. To assess the effects of acute psychological stress on spatial and cued memory, adult zebrafish were trained in an ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Gaikwad S,Stewart A,Hart P,Wong K,Piet V,Cachat J,Kalueff AV

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00