abstract：:In social species such as house mouse, being dominant is vital. Determination of dominance may start early in life and vary during ontogeny. We asked whether pre-pubertal and adolescent behaviour predicts the rank a male mouse finally obtains. Moreover, we asked how dominant vs. subordinate adults differ in exploratio...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hiadlovská Z,Hamplová P,Berchová Bímová K,Macholán M,Vošlajerová Bímová B

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence and research interest of animal personality, its underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Due to the essential role of monoamines in modulating behaviour, we manipulated the monoaminergic systems of Mediterranean field crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus) to explore whether this altered beh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lundgren KA,Abbey-Lee RN,Garnham LC,Kreshchenko A,Ryding S,Løvlie H

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals show various forms of behavioral thermoregulation to minimize cold stress. Given that higher dominance rank is often associated with increased fitness in group-living animals, higher-ranking individuals may also benefit from better access to thermally optimal spatial positions within huddles. This study examin...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ishizuka S

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that conditioned food aversion (CFA) could be a potential non-lethal intervention by which to deter attacks on livestock by large carnivores. CFA occurs when an animal associates the characteristics of a food with an illness, thus rejecting that food in subsequent encounters. CFA can be associate...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tobajas J,Ruiz-Aguilera MJ,López-Bao JV,Ferreras P,Mateo R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Being motivated means exerting effort toward a goal. The 'law of least work' emphasizes a preference for exerting relatively less effort. The law crosses boundaries among species and between physical and mental work. Organisms should be highly sensitive to shifts in effort-reward balance (ERB) in order to make optimal...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Knauss ZT,Filipovic M,Smith KA,Queener MM,Lubera JA,Bolden-Hall NM,Smith JP,Goldsmith RS,Bischoff JE,Miller MK,Cromwell HC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) produce an alarm call when a predator appears. Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) produce calls that vary in spectral structure according to predator type and specific characteristics unique to the individual predator, such as color and shape. These calls vary depending on geograph...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dennis P,Shuster SM,Slobodchikoff CN

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:One of the main factors that allow the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) to live in cities may be the availability of supplemental food provided by people. In this article, preferences of red squirrels in relation to supplemental food, how it is handled, and whether change seasonally, is investigated. A cafeteria test w...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kostrzewa A,Krauze-Gryz D

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural cycles of light and darkness shift the balance of risks and gains for animals across space and time. Entrainment to photic cycles allows animals to spatiotemporally adapt their behavioural and physiological processes in line with interplaying ecological factors, such as temperature, foraging efficiency and pre...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Hart EE,Fennessy J,Hauenstein S,Ciuti S

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Delay of gratification (DofG) refers to the capacity to forego an immediate reward in order to receive a more desirable reward later. As a core executive function, it might be expected that DofG would follow the standard pattern of age-related decline observed in older adults for other executive tasks. However, there ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Lamichhane B,Di Rosa E,Green L,Myerson J,Braver TS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidating the multi-faceted relationship between cognitive competence and affective states is a major pursuit in behavioral sciences. Mood disorders constitute a good research model for this question, as cognitive impairment may accompany clinical depression and persist after full remission. This suggests cognitive ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Atesyakar N,Canbeyli R,Unal G

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Personality and physiological traits often have close relationships with dominance status, but the significance and/or direction of the relationships vary between studies. This study examines whether two personality traits (aggressiveness and boldness) and three physiological traits (testosterone and cortisol levels a...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Li CY,Tseng YC,Chen YJ,Yang Y,Hsu Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:In the current study we assessed the possibility of developing intraexperimentally behavioral priming and Event Related Potentials (ERP) effects that are often studied with stimuli to which participants typically have a very extensive pre-experimental history, like words. To do so we used abstract geometrical figures ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Ortu D,Vaidya M

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:Primates perceive many object features through vision and touch. To date, little is known on how the synergy of these two sensory modalities contributes to enhance object recognition. Here, we investigated in capuchin monkeys (N = 12) whether manipulating objects and retaining tactile information enhanced visual recog...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Carducci P,Squillace V,Manzi G,Truppa V

更新日期：2020-03-01 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

abstract：:Female mate choice is a well studied mechanism of sexual selection that can affect the evolution of male secondary sexual traits. However, males also exhibit selective mate choice in some animals, which can affect the evolution of female phenotypes. We tested for evidence of intraspecific male mate choice in the Rainb...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Soudry O,Kaira H,Parsa S,Mendelson T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study used the protocol established to produce retroactive interference (RI) in contextual memory paradigms and applied it to an appetitive learning setting. Rats were first subjected to the learning of an operant conditioning, action-outcome (A-O) association and were tested in a probe (A-O probe) session...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Pattabhiraman H,Ward RD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence in literature shows that rapid disruption of maternal care and breastfeeding due to an early weaning protocol changes the development of several neurobehavioral patterns in rodents, including the circadian pattern of feeding. The serotoninergic system has been associated with the control of feeding...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tavares GA,Almeida LCDA,de Souza JA,Braz GRF,da Silva MC,Lagranha CJ,do Nascimento E,de Souza SL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that stationary prey are able to carefully assess the risk levels associated with an approaching predator to make informative decisions on when to escape. However, little is known about subsequent decision-making process. We set out to compare whether escape durations of three species of corvids ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tätte K,Møller AP,Mänd R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous investigators have examined the hypothesis that males and females learn or perform differentially on various tasks. However, many of the behavioural investigations with nonhuman animals (e.g., rats) have used paradigms that do not permit the exploration of complex learning and memory between the sexes. To thi...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kundey SMA,Bajracharya A,Boettger-Tong H,Fountain SB,Rowan JD

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Despite the abundant empirical evidence on lateralized social behaviours, a clear understanding of the relative roles of two brain hemispheres in social processing is still lacking. This study investigated visual lateralization in social interactions of free-ranging European bison (Bison bonasus). The bison were more ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Giljov A,Karenina K

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tip of the tail in female Cerastes vipera, a small viperid snake, is black and conspicuous, whereas that of the male is not. We tested the hypothesis, albeit indirectly, that this sexual dimorphic chromatisation is related to caudal luring, a feeding mimicry hunting strategy. C. vipera can hunt nocturnally-active ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tesler I,Sivan J,Rosenstrauch A,Horesh SJA,Degen AA,Kam M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specialization of the left and right hemispheres to control behavioural responses may represent one of the mechanisms underlying individual differences in personality structure, as well as the preferential use of one hand. The present study investigated the relationship between personality and hand preference in commo...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Tomassetti D,Caracciolo S,Manciocco A,Chiarotti F,Vitale A,De Filippis B

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) principle as a tool, we investigated how Allenby's gerbils (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi) utilized food patches within and moved between connected quadrants (i.e., 'habitats') in a large outdoor semi-natural enclosure. These habitats differed in initial forager densities, bu...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Makin DF,Kotler BP

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication systems that involve substrate vibrations are increasingly a focus of research since this communication mode - recently termed biotremology - has been found to be remarkably widespread in the animal kingdom. Vibrational signals are often used during courtship and therefore underlie both natural and sexua...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Eberhard MJB,Metze D,Küpper SC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess how variable is the aggressive behavior among families (A, B, and C) and the experience effect of fighting among juvenile Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis), we performed a total of 36 pairs of intrafamily and interfamily contests between three families of Eriocheir sinensis, qualifying and quantifying...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Li Y,Jiang Q,Fan S,Sun N,Li XD,Zheng Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments used eye tracking to examine visual searching for expected outcomes in humans during an associative-learning task. In both, participants learned to press keys on a keyboard to activate weapons to repel invading spaceships in the presence of predictive "sensors." In both experiments, eye tracking showed...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Nelson JB,Navarro A,Sanjuan MDC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last days of incubation vocalization is a form of communication between the avian embryo and the incubating parent. Commonly, embryonic calls increase when ambient temperature (Ta) deviates from the optimal range, but no information is available on whether the characteristics of the calls differ between war...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Mortola JP

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Underwater sound fields can be complex, both in open water and small tank environments. Here we measured 1) spatial variation in artificially elevated sound levels in a small fish tank for both particle motion and sound pressure. We confirmed that the ratio of pressure and particle motion deviated considerably from wh...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Campbell J,Shafiei Sabet S,Slabbekoorn H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

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：:The foraging behaviour of gastropod molluscs usually involves complex decisions that provide a model for the study of high-order cognitive processes. Land snails tested for food-finding in the laboratory, however, have shown an invariable feeding pattern: novel foods are mostly missed (i.e. just found by chance) whils...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Rodríguez M,Álvarez B,Loy I

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral ontogeny involves the interaction of innate predispositions and experience. In bird song learning, one approach to exploring this interaction is to examine the songs rehearsed by young birds whose exposure to tutor models has been carefully controlled. Here, I analyzed the rehearsed repertoire in Nuttall's ...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Soha JA

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews studies investigating the effect of economy type on reinforcer value. In a closed economy, consumption of the reinforcer depends entirely on the subject's behavior, whereas in an open economy it does not, due, for example, to the provision of free reinforcers after the session. In theory, reinforc...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Kearns DN

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Domestic dogs are trained for a wide variety of jobs; however, half of dogs that enter working dog training organizations never become certified. The aim of this study was to identify whether a basic measure of behavioral persistence was associated with sixteen dogs' performance on an odor discrimination learning task...

journal_title：Behavioural processes

authors： Dalal S,Hall NJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 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