Temporal spacing of signals in communication, studied in weakly-electric mormyrid fish (teleostei, pisces).

abstract：:The imposition of subordination may negatively impact cognitive performance in common social settings (e.g., the classroom), and likewise, laboratory studies of animals indicate that the stress associated with social defeat can impair cognitive performance. It is less clear whether an animal's predisposition for socia...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Matzel LD,Kolata S,Light K,Sauce B

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The present research investigated the blocking effect in three different species, rats, humans and snails in formally equivalent tasks using a within-subjects design. Experiment 1 demonstrated the blocking effect in a context-flavour aversive conditioning preparation in rats: Animals failed to associate a flavour with...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Prados J,Alvarez B,Acebes F,Loy I,Sansa J,Moreno-Fernández MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allosuckling, the suckling of offspring from females other than their own mother, has been reported in a number of mammalian species, including reindeer. The causes and function of this behaviour are still being investigated. We monitored 25 doe-calf pairs of semi-domestic reindeer Rangifer tarandus over 10 weeks to t...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Engelhardt SC,Weladji RB,Holand Ø,de Rioja CM,Ehmann RK,Nieminen M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotypies in captive animals are typically defined as repetitive, invariant behavioral patterns with no obvious goal or function. They are often attributed to boredom or fear and treated by introducing occupational stimuli. The present work on captive walruses examined the relationship between walrus stereotypies a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Fernandez EJ,Timberlake W

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk allocation hypothesis predicts that vigilance should be adjusted to the temporal variation in risk. We test this hypothesis in wild fallow deer exposed to short term (disturbance) and long term (presence of a fawn after parturition) changes in risk. We recorded the proportion, frequency and type of vigilance ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bergvall UA,Svensson L,Kjellander P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual landmarks are important navigational aids to many animals, and when more than one is available their juxtaposition can convey valuable new information to a navigator about progress toward a goal, depending on the landmarks' comparative distinctiveness. We investigated the effect of presenting rock ant colonies ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hunt ER,Kendall C,Stanbury E,Sendova-Franks AB,Franks NR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and behavioural effects of testosterone (T) and of 5 α-dihydrotestosterone (5α-DHT) injected daily for a 3-week period at dosages of 0.5, 1, 5 and 10 mg for T and 1 and 5 mg for α-DHT were studied in the adult male castrated Japanese quail. Injections of 0.5 or 1.0 mg T produced only slight development o...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Deviche P,Schumacher M

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:Stress has been shown to negatively affect the immune system, alter the body's metabolism, and play a strong role in the development of mood disorders. These effects are mainly driven through the release of hormones from the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA). Additionally, women are more likely to be affected ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： da Silva CC,Lazzaretti C,Fontanive T,Dartora DR,Bauereis B,Gamaro GD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of environment on the maturation of sand digging behaviour in cuttlefish was studied. Sand digging behaviour of cuttlefish individually reared on sand was daily observed in their rearing tanks (first study). Other cuttlefish were individually reared from hatching to 2 weeks of life in different conditions (...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Poirier R,Chichery R,Dickel L

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding individual behavioral differences in domestic cats could lead to improved selection when potential cat owners choose a pet with whom to share their lives, along with consequent improvements in cat welfare. Yet very few attempts have been made to elicit cat personality dimensions using the trait-based exp...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Bennett PC,Rutter NJ,Woodhead JK,Howell TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous data suggest that in a peak-interval procedure with gaps, memory for the pre-gap interval varies with the discriminability of the gap from the to-be-timed signal. Here we extend this finding by manipulating the pre-gap and gap intervals as well as the visual contrast between the gap and the to-be-timed signal...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Buhusi CV,Paskalis JP,Cerutti DT

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Birdsong is a particularly useful model for animal communication studies. However, current knowledge is derived mainly from the study of male song, and is therefore incomplete. Here, we investigated whether singing behaviour differs between sexes in the cooperatively breeding Western Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dutour M,Ridley AR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male Wistar rats were trained to find an escape box in the Barnes maze in order to characterize the extinction process of a learned spatial preference. To do so, once they had fully acquired the spatial task, they were repeatedly exposed to the maze without the escape box. Multiple behavioral measurements (group...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Vargas-López V,Lamprea MR,Múnera A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pausing within multiple fixed-ratio schedules differing in reinforcer magnitude is jointly controlled by both past and upcoming conditions of reinforcement. Abrupt shifts from a just-received large reinforcer to a signaled upcoming small reinforcer (i.e., a negative incentive shift) produce marked disruptions in respo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Galuska CM,Yadon KA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of animal-like autonomous robots might offer new possibilities in the study of animal interactions, if the subject recognises it as a social partner. In this paper we investigate whether AIBO, a dog-like robot of the Sony Corp. can be used for this purpose. Twenty-four adult and sixteen 4-5 months old pet dogs...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kubinyi E,Miklósi A,Kaplan F,Gácsi M,Topál J,Csányi V

更新日期：2004-03-31 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：: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 propose that a relatively small number of perceptual skills underlie human perception of music and speech. Humans and songbirds share a number of features in the development of their auditory communication systems. These similarities invite comparisons between species in their auditory perceptual skills. Here, we s...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Weisman R,Hoeschele M,Sturdy CB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocal individual identification has been demonstrated in many animals, with discriminant function analysis (DFA) and spectrographic cross-correlation (SPCC) being the two most frequent methods. Successful vocal individual identification requires high among-individual differences and within-individual stability over ti...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Chen G,Xia C,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On daily time-place learning tasks animals can work for food at different spatial locations during sessions at different times of the day. In previous experiments rats tracked this pattern of food availability with ordinal timing-they learned to respond at the locations in the correct order each day. In contrast, pige...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carr JA,Wilkie DM

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment was carried out to investigate the long-term effects of enhancing cage complexity on behavioural measures of welfare in laboratory rats. We housed 72 rats in groups of four in either 'enriched' or 'unenriched' cages for six weeks. Scan and focal animal sampling were conducted in both the light and dark...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Abou-Ismail UA,Burman OH,Nicol CJ,Mendl M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hens were trained to door push and three were trained to head bob using food as the reinforcer (Behaviour 1 training). A period of extinction followed. Each hen was then trained to perform the other behaviour (Behaviour 2) and this was followed by seven sessions of extinction. This whole sequence was repeated si...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Cleland BS,Foster TM,Temple W

更新日期：2000-12-07 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：:Prey species modify their behaviors in response to predation risks to minimize their vulnerability and enhance their survival. When a predation risk arises, gregarious, open-habitat-dwelling ungulates usually increase their vigilance rate and enlarge their herd sizes, which are the two antipredator responses that are ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Blank DA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments, there are usually two general ways of obtaining dominants and subordinates to test for the effect of recent experience upon ulterior behavior and dominance. One is to 'impose' such an experience on the contestants by a priori deciding which individual of the pair will become the dominant and which will...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Beaugrand JP,Goulet C

更新日期：2000-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously extinguished operant responding recurs under both resurgence and renewal procedures, but the effects of combining these procedures on recurrence has not been studied. Because renewal and resurgence are known to independently produce response recurrence, we examined whether greater resurgence would occur if ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kincaid SL,Lattal KA,Spence J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of day-old chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) to discriminate between the shape and size of beads was investigated in two one-trial tasks, taste avoidance and sickness-conditioned learning. Previous studies determined that color is a critical classification cue for conditioned stimuli in these tasks. In tas...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Barber TA

更新日期：2016-03-01 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