• To address the question of whether aggression is genetic or learned, we must understand aggression in dogs is a complex behaviour that can be influenced by a variety of factors, both genetic and environmental. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • While some studies have suggested that certain breeds may be predisposed to certain types of aggression, such as breeds used for hunting or guarding, it is important to note that aggressive behaviour can occur in any breed of dog. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Aggression is a complex and nuanced term that can be difficult to define, particularly when discussing animal behaviour. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • In order to understand and address aggression in dogs, it's essential to consider the context and specific behaviours being displayed. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Aggression can be interpreted differently due to anthropomorphic reasons, making it crucial to accurately identify the behaviour being exhibited. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • aggression in dogs is a product of complex interactions between their genetic makeup and their environmental experiences. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Bowing also appears among agonistic behaviors, and may anticipate an aggression. (alexacapra.com)
  • Predicting health behaviour: research and practice with social cognition models (2nd ed). (sussex.ac.uk)
  • Both genetics and environmental factors are crucial in shaping aggressive behaviors, influencing learning and cognition. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • The field of comparative cognition has generated a wealth of research into the cognitive processes underpinning animal behaviour, yet the evolutionary forces that have driven and shaped these processes are poorly understood. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition 9: 428-516. (dpz.eu)
  • 2023. Housing conditions affect adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior but not their physiological status. (awionline.org)
  • Poirotte C , Charpentier MJE (2023) Mother-to-daughter transmission of hygienic anti-parasite behaviour in mandrills. (dpz.eu)
  • My teaching interests are in the areas of Research Methods, Animal Behavior, Anatomy and Physiology, and Behavioral Ecology. (utica.edu)
  • I am also interested in the impact of pollutants on behavior and ecology, especially the impact of light pollution on foraging and activity. (utica.edu)
  • There are many opportunities for students to conduct research under my direction, and I am currently seeking motivated students interested in behavior and ecology. (utica.edu)
  • For more than 70 y researchers have looked to baboons (monkeys of the genus Papio ) as a source of hypotheses about the ecology and behavior of early hominins (early human ancestors and their close relatives). (bvsalud.org)
  • The result is a rich array of analogies, scenarios, and other stimuli to thought about the ecology and behavior of early hominins. (bvsalud.org)
  • Predators can influence the ecology and evolution of their prey directly by eating them, but also indirectly by influencing the behaviour of survivors 1 . (nature.com)
  • In this paper the time Amazilia hummingbird allocates to its different activities, the frequency of its visits to different species of flowers and the characteristics of the perches it used is studied, with the objective of providing some information about the ecology and behaviour of this scarcely studied bird in an urban environment. (scielo.sa.cr)
  • My PhD thesis "Sex, costs and bowerbird tastes" originated as classical study of behavioural ecology, testing a series of models of sexual selection, but introduced me to the range of influences, usually studied under the guise of Psychology, that determine and shape individual's behaviour. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • The impetus for this talk was the development and publication of the AAFP's Feline Behavior Guidelines (2004), a 2 year project sponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition. (vin.com)
  • The first step in redressing these issues requires that vets understand normal feline behavior. (vin.com)
  • Single kitten syndrome" has really intrigued me since it's something I haven't encountered during my practice in feline behavior. (repulsifs-chats.eu)
  • The behavioural, postural, social and kinetic elements which comprise this complex, ritualized display can be easily distinguished from normal, or non-display behaviour, considered typical of that species' life history. (wikipedia.org)
  • Agonistic displays are essential to the social dynamics of many biological taxa, extending far beyond sharks. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aim of the current study was to investigate the side (left or right) and sagittal preference (front or rear) of adult Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus ) during different types of social interactions. (mdpi.com)
  • In the field of Ethopharmacology I see problems when attempts are made to interpret social interactions as markers of anxiety in response to anxiolytics. (behavior.net)
  • We propose that when social relationships are important for anti-predator behaviour, their formation may conflict with the well-established anti-predator benefits of forming larger groups. (nature.com)
  • The maintenance of social relationships often requires individual recognition, which can be cognitively demanding when it involves large numbers of associates such as in the dynamic social interactions typical of fission-fusion societies 27 , 28 . (nature.com)
  • Social bonds in female baboons: The interaction between personality, kinship, and rank. (upenn.edu)
  • For the purposes of this talk, the focus will be on social systems, social interactions, and signaling behavior. (vin.com)
  • Feline social systems are more flexible than we commonly believe, and the extent to which the cats appear social and engage in active group behaviors depends on the resource environment and group size (Beaver, 2003). (vin.com)
  • Social housing should be overseen by individuals with expertise in nonhuman primate behavior as animals housed socially require ongoing monitoring to ensure compatibility and to reduce the possibility of injury or distress. (asp.org)
  • Association of Zoos & Aquariums' (AZA) 2017 Accreditation Standards and Related Policies propose that animals "are provided quality spaces to live in with appropriate social groupings that promote natural, species-appropriate and motivated behavior. (asp.org)
  • Affiliative and agonistic behaviors determine the social structure and its systems in animal groups, which are manifested as differences in proximity between individuals. (mammal.cn)
  • Adult males use competition for a social position as a type of agonistic behavior in animals. (namastesensei.in)
  • The amount of time each individual devotes to certain behaviours can provide insights into the requirements and constrains acting upon it, and is influenced by its condition, social status and the environmental conditions of the area (Paulus 1988, Adams et al . (scielo.sa.cr)
  • My work on social influences on behaviour started by considering simple dyadic factors in which an individuals' signal, be they sexual or begging, can be modulated by the behaviour of others, including heterospecifics. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • I have extended this simplistic approach and helped develop new methods to probe the effects of polyadic interactions utilizing social network analysis. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • This may be likely, since the kitten has neither social interactions with their mother nor their siblings. (repulsifs-chats.eu)
  • Siblings also pounce, bat, and chase each other which are all produced by both predatory and combative social behavior. (repulsifs-chats.eu)
  • Feeding behaviour as not affected by treatment, but it affected by social hierarchy status. (hartpury.ac.uk)
  • Social rank did not affect competitive behaviour, but there was a trend for more competition events when concentrate was distributed in piles (P = 0.09). (hartpury.ac.uk)
  • The interactions leads to social comparisons - comparisons of material resources, relationships, positions, roles, almost everything that socially and personally matters. (coursescholars.com)
  • Here we examine sensory laterality in affiliative interactions within four groups of domestic horses and ponies (N = 31), living in stable social groups, housed at a single complex close to Vienna, Austria, and demonstrate for the first time a significant population preference for the left side in affiliative approaches and interactions. (equine-behaviour.de)
  • Our results suggest that right hemisphere specialization in horses is not limited to the processing of stressful or agonistic situations, but rather appears to be the norm for processing in all social interactions, as has been demonstrated in other species including chicks and a range of vertebrates. (equine-behaviour.de)
  • In this blog we'll be looking at how social behaviour influences our management decisions. (haygain.ca)
  • Pharmacologic therapy for tics is considered when tics interfere with social interactions, school performance, or activities of daily living. (medscape.com)
  • The effects of affiliative relationship on aggressive behavior in Tibetan macaques[J]. ACTA THERIOLOGICA SINICA, 2022, 42(4): 370-378. (mammal.cn)
  • Reproductive behavior, Mate choice, Nile tilapias. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many of these population-level effects seem to be driven by the costs associated with trading-off time allocated to foraging and reproductive behaviour against increased vigilance and predator avoidance 1 , 4 . (nature.com)
  • The outcomes of these types of agonistic behaviors in animals affect the reproductive success rate of both sexes and many factors like size and age may play into whether a particular animal wins or loses an encounter. (namastesensei.in)
  • This behaviour is advantageous because it is much less biologically taxing for an individual to display its intention to fight than the injuries it would sustain during conflict, which is why agonistic displays have been reinforced through evolutionary time, as an adaptation to personal fitness. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mantis shrimp , predatory crustaceans , are an example of an aggressive and territorial organism whose agonistic behaviour has been studied in an ecological and evolutionary context. (wikipedia.org)
  • 11(4): http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v11n4/en/abstract?shortcommunication+bn01611042011Abstract: We report here a set of observations on mating behavior and female accompaniment by the whiptail lizard Cnemidophorus ocellifer in an area of Caatinga (xerophilous open forests) in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil. (scite.ai)
  • 13(3): http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v13n3/en/ abstract?article+bn04013032013Abstract: Composition, species diversity and resource usage in terms of space and time were evaluated for the lizard community of the Ecological Station of the Seridó (ESEC Seridó), Rio Grande do Norte. (scite.ai)
  • Upregulation of the dopamine receptors has led some investigators to propose another hypothesis about increased sensitivity to dopamine within the striatum, prefrontal cortex, and motor region, leading to the phenotype of tics and other behaviors associated with TS. (medscape.com)
  • Aripiprazole elicits partial agonistic effect at dopamine D2 and serotonin type 1 (5-HT1A) receptors (thought to help control vocal tics). (medscape.com)
  • We used focal animal and behavioral sampling methods to record the proximity, grooming, and aggressive behavior of macaques. (mammal.cn)
  • We correlated the proximity and grooming with aggressive behavior of those matrices, and ran GLMM models to explore the factors that might affect aggressive interaction among individuals. (mammal.cn)
  • The bow is one of the most misunderstood behaviors in canine communication. (alexacapra.com)
  • In biology and zoology, we can study this type of behavior through experiments on lab animals such as rats and mice, but it also occurs in certain species naturally within wild populations. (namastesensei.in)
  • Mating behaviour of the side-blotched lizards of the genus Uta (Sauria: Iguanidae). (repfocus.dk)
  • Firmly squeezing the chests of newborn foals and calves that are showing abnormal behaviours after birth causes them to enter a less-responsive state, characterised by lying down with eyes closed and no limb movements. (awionline.org)
  • 22 Appendices 1 Behaviors Considered to be Abnormal. (wustl.edu)
  • Erwin and Deni (1979) have described in great detail the abnormal behaviors frequently seen in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) maintained in laboratories (see Appendix 1). (wustl.edu)
  • Confinement to farrowing crates is known to prevent sows from performing natural behavior, impairing animal welfare and possibly causing chronic stress. (awionline.org)
  • A recent trend in animal welfare is the assessment of affective states to complement the traditional emphasis on behavior and physiology. (peerj.com)
  • 2022 . The effect of artificial night lighting on tail regeneration and prey consumption in a nocturnal salamander ( Plethodon cinereus ), and on the behavior of fruit fly prey ( Drosophila virilis ). (utica.edu)
  • 2022. A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the impact of indoor living space on dairy cow production, reproduction and behaviour. (awionline.org)
  • Olfactory stimuli have been used to reduce stress in weaning pigs and induce sexual behavior in sows. (habricentral.org)
  • We discuss this event with respect to the putative functions of homosexual behaviour in great apes. (brill.com)
  • Theory predicts that cheating individuals should alter their behaviour to avoid detection, yet empirical data for such 'deceptive' behaviour (and its putative consequence-punishment) is almost entirely absent from the literature. (nature.com)
  • These behavior disorders often accompany the tics and may dominate the clinical picture in some patients. (medscape.com)
  • These children also had associated coexisting behavior problems, as well as unusual vocalizations that we now recognize as phonic tics. (medscape.com)
  • The approach is primarily aimed at medical management of frequent or disabling tics, treatment of coexisting behavior symptoms, and patient and family education. (medscape.com)
  • Certain species will display unique visual cues, outside of the displays discussed here, as individual species face their own biological stresses that drive the selection and reinforcement of new adaptive behaviours. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brain Stimulation and Reinforcement and Behavior. (miroise.org)
  • Film: Brain areas of Reinforcement and Behavior. (miroise.org)
  • If challenged or threatened, animals may employ a suite of adaptive behaviours, which are used to reinforce the chances of their own survival. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2019). Nevertheless, as has been suggested for same-sex mounting among female Japanese macaques (Vasey, 2006), same-sex sexual behaviours do not always appear to convey an adaptive benefit. (brill.com)
  • The premise is, when dogs actively take treats, during behavior modification, they are building new brain connections, using classical conditioning, that are more adaptive in those contexts, because dogs are learning (operant conditioning) to perform alternative behavior/s that are more desirable. (responsibledog.net)
  • Many people with experience in hand-rearing kittens find that the kitten's behavior, and their behavior as an adult cat, is different from a cat that has been raised by a queen. (repulsifs-chats.eu)
  • It's 2007, and I'm observing an interaction between a bullmastiff puppy and an adult female border collie. (alexacapra.com)
  • Agonistic displays are ritualized sequences of actions, produced by animals belonging to almost all biological taxa, in response to conflict with other organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • While any one of these divisions of behaviours may be seen alone in an interaction between two animals, they normally occur in sequence from start to end. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scott and Fredericson studied mice and rats, and classified three main categories of agonistic behaviour these animals display, which include preliminary behaviour, attack, and defensive and escape behaviour. (wikipedia.org)
  • Socialisation: Proper socialisation with other dogs, animals, and humans is crucial for preventing aggressive behaviour. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • According to Encyclopaedia Britannica (2018), aggressive behaviour in animals involves "actual or potential harm to another animal. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Agonistic Behavior In Animals: What It Is & Why It Matters? (namastesensei.in)
  • In biology, we can see agonistic behavior in many animals, and we can even find it in insects like ants and bees! (namastesensei.in)
  • Agonistic behavior in biology is a form of aggressive, competitive interaction between two animals. (namastesensei.in)
  • In species where there is sex outside of the breeding season, males and females can also display different types of agonistic behaviors in animals. (namastesensei.in)
  • The agonistic behavior of these animals has many implications for their survival because males that are dominant have an advantage when gaining food or territories, finding mates, defending their territory from rivals (which helps ensure access to food), and fighting off predators (such as other males). (namastesensei.in)
  • How does natural selection and evolution act on underlying, general cognitive processes such as learning, memory or executive control, which shape specific behaviours in wild-living animals? (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Infanticidal behaviour, behaviour with wide welfare implications, is wide-spread among animals of various taxonomic groups, but has not previously been systematically studied in European wild boars, which are commonly kept in enclosures in Sweden and Finland for meat and recreation hunting. (habricentral.org)
  • In order not have any problems (health, economic), animals behaviour analyses with cameras can be an appropriate and relatively cheap solution. (habricentral.org)
  • This trial was designed to test if distributing feed supplement (corn meal) along and under the fence in individual piles would affect heifers feeding behaviour and grant better access to all animals compared to supplement offered in a continuous line. (hartpury.ac.uk)
  • Correlations between specific components and their associated behaviours were logical and consistent with the types of behaviours that would be expected to be linked with such personality types. (researchgate.net)
  • The aim of this study was to test the reliability of an assessment method originally developed for primates and demonstrate reliability using three criteria (1) assessments by independent observers must agree with one another, (2) these assessments must predict behaviours and real-world outcomes and (3) observer ratings must be shown to reflect genuine attributes of the individuals rated, not merely the observer's implicit personality theories about how traits co-vary. (researchgate.net)
  • Component scores for horses were correlated against behavioural observations for the same horses and revealed significant correlations with 20 of the recorded behaviour variables. (researchgate.net)
  • If this singular case is removed from the roster of evidence for primate tactical deception, the evidence supporting such behaviour is reduced to anecdotes from the wild and reports from captive studies (with one possible exception of 'functional' deception in the context of food competition 21 ). (nature.com)
  • Knowledge of the natural behavior of individual species is crucial in proper captive management of nonhuman primates (see Primate Info Net Factsheets for species-specific information). (asp.org)
  • Behaviours which arise from agonistic conflict include: fight or flight response threat display to warn competitors and signal honest intentions defence behaviour simulated paralysis avoidance behaviour withdrawal settling behaviour. (wikipedia.org)
  • Behavior Research Methods, 54(5):2101-2113. (uzh.ch)
  • Behavior Research Methods, 54(5):2302-2317. (uzh.ch)
  • Behavior Research Methods, 52(6):2567-2587. (uzh.ch)
  • Behavior Research Methods, 52(5):1951-1969. (uzh.ch)
  • Agonism is a broad term which encompasses many behaviours that result from, or are triggered by biological conflict between competing organisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Displays of this nature are influenced and reinforced by natural selection, as an optimal strategy for avoiding physical conflict, and the costs of such interactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The following table summarizes the characteristic physical elements of sharks displaying agonistic behaviour and non-displaying sharks: As an apex predator, sharks are no stranger to biological conflict. (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] These are examples of the physical behaviours that are responses to conflict in mice. (wikipedia.org)
  • BEAUGRAND, Jacques P., PAYETTE, Daniel, & GOULET, Claude (1996) Conflict outcome in male green swordtail fish dyads (Xiphophorus helleri): Interaction of body size, prior dominance/subordination experience and prior residency. (miroise.org)
  • 2006 . The influence of artificial illumination on the nocturnal behavior and physiology of salamanders, pp. 221-251. (utica.edu)
  • Many studies have been carried out into both motor and sensory laterality of horses in agonistic and stressful situations. (equine-behaviour.de)
  • A 'need' is defined as any common, self-rewarding behaviour that has a 'rebound' effect, following a stressful period of denial or restriction. (haygain.ca)
  • As confrontations and the establishment of hierarchical dominance involve high energetic expenditure in Nile tilapias, the reason why females invest in such behaviors is still a question to be elucidated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Given in the context of behavior modification, it's often necessary to move reactive, fear and/or anxiety related dogs away from stimuli (targets) to reduce the reactivity cycle and facilitate the eating of treats. (responsibledog.net)
  • Dr. Susan Friedman emphasises the importance of understanding the context of aggressive behaviour, including the specific actions being displayed (Friedman, 2007). (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Scientific studies have shown that captive primates who are housed socially exhibit higher levels of species-appropriate behavior, lower levels of stress (both behavioral and physiological indices of stress) and, overall, demonstrate well-being that is superior to that of their singly-housed counterparts. (asp.org)
  • Many reptiles, such as iguanas, exhibit agonistic behavior. (namastesensei.in)
  • The most common example of agonistic behavior in birds is the pecking order in a flock or colony. (namastesensei.in)
  • Large numbers of birds can be bred and reared under controlled conditions, probed with established psychometric tests proven on domestic chickens and released into the wild where their fates can be tracked and their wild behaviour observed both directly and remotely. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Cats were opportunistic in their historic interactions with humans: anywhere there are humans and stored food (e.g., grain) there are rodents. (vin.com)
  • Advances in the Study of Behavior 39 , 1-35. (upenn.edu)
  • Same-sex sexual behaviour has been documented across the animal kingdom, and is thought to reflect and enhance dyadic cooperation and tolerance. (brill.com)
  • Although same-sex sexual behaviour is observed in our close relatives, the chimpanzees, fellatio appears to be very rare - as yet there are no published reports clearly documenting its occurrence. (brill.com)
  • For display flights, see Sexual behavior, below. (birdsoftheworld.org)
  • Horses were each assessed by three judges, in addition to a total of 2h behaviour observations recorded per horse. (researchgate.net)
  • Agonistic behavior in Horses - There are many examples of agonistic behavior in horses. (namastesensei.in)
  • Therefore, the horse's visual laterality provides a good means of assessing whether horses are making emotional or rational decisions during training or in human-horse interactions. (equine-behaviour.de)
  • For those horses tested under both passive and interactive conditions, the left eye was preferred significantly more during interaction. (equine-behaviour.de)
  • So the need was for behavior modification of the young officers so that they could build expectations in their subordinates to work efficiently and sincerely, and if necessary to take initiative and risks. (coursescholars.com)
  • Displays of this nature will always either result in a fleeing behaviour, or rapid, slashing attack from the displaying individual. (wikipedia.org)
  • Animal behavior problems can be complicated along with recognizing the unique characteristics of each individual animal and family. (responsibledog.net)
  • Some breeds may be more predisposed to aggressive behaviour, but individual temperament can vary widely within a breed. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • Individual behaviour of the heifers / grazing, eating grain supplement, competing or other) was registered at one-minute interval instantaneous scans. (hartpury.ac.uk)
  • The behaviour of every individual is strongly influenced by what he believes. (coursescholars.com)
  • The fight itself is classified as one of the pattern of behaviour that occurs and involves physical violence between the rodents. (wikipedia.org)
  • [2] Finally, the defensive and escape behaviour occurs usually immediately after the fight and is displayed by the mouse that was defeated in the fight. (wikipedia.org)
  • A shark which is in distress will behave in a manner that is easily recognizable, due to the sheer oddity of the sequence of movements and torsional elements characteristic of agonistic displays - juxtaposed to normal behaviour, which appears visibly more relaxed and natural. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, many people - from farmers to forest service employees to elephant scientists - are working to understand the movements and behaviors of a species that's been subject to decades of intensive conservation work. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Dysfunction within these circuits results in an inability to suppress unwanted movements, behaviors, or impulses. (medscape.com)
  • In nature, agonistic behaviour is both species and situation-specific, and is often expressed as a graded response to imposed threats. (wikipedia.org)
  • To recognize and identify true agonistic behaviour, it is first important to understand what constitutes normal behaviour in sharks, specific to the lifestyle of the species of interest. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cats were never fully domesticated, and so were not subject to strong selection for specific suites of behavior, as were dogs. (vin.com)
  • The most effective triggers of agonistic behaviour in sharks include: hunger crowding by human divers (independent or group dives) and submersible machinery sustained targeted pursuit invasion of the shark's idiosphere, without appropriate warning or consent natural competition for resources with other organisms obstructions on the benthic floor which block escape routes or reduce scope of visibility crowding by boats. (wikipedia.org)
  • While genetics play a role in a dog's behaviour, they do not solely determine it. (cbtdogbehaviour.com)
  • How can the behavior consultant help? (responsibledog.net)
  • The skilled behavior consultant will embrace not only scientific knowledge but will have sufficient education in dog behavior consulting as exemplified by cynopraxic modalities. (responsibledog.net)