• or BIO421 Principles of Animal Physiology (4 cr. (plattsburgh.edu)
  • Light is possibly, maybe just after the availability of resources in terms of food, the most important environmental driver of changes in behavior and physiology," says ecologist Davide Dominoni of the University of Glasgow in Scotland. (sciencenews.org)
  • I was studying pair-bonding and social behavior in animals, and as my research evolved, I discovered and realized that there had to be a physiology for love-a biology for love. (medscape.com)
  • Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews. (lu.se)
  • The separate evolution of the similar cognition in these two lineages likely harbors many answers to principal questions on the nature of cognition. (lu.se)
  • Overall, my goal is to identify the factors which drive the evolution of cognition by assessing the presence and extent of cognitive skills in different animal species in key positions on the phylogenetic tree. (lu.se)
  • We are mainly investigating reproductive behavior. (unifr.ch)
  • Reproductive behavior is fascinating, because it is so important for every animal, and a big driving force in evolution. (unifr.ch)
  • 12 Although same-sex interactions involving genital contact have been reported in hundreds of animal species, they are routinely manifested in only a few, including humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • The emergence of collective behavior from variation and interactions among system components. (ucla.edu)
  • It explores their forms, origins, evolution, behaviors and interactions with other species in their. (mcgill.ca)
  • Here Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri, along with a host of scholars from fields as diverse as ecology, genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, and psychology, provide a comprehensive overview of the current research on animal personality. (pdflibrary.net)
  • The authors integrate information from molecular genomics through neuroscience, endocrinology, development, and learning to evolutionary genetics, selection, constraints, and phylogenetics to provide a concise but comprehensive look at current topics in animal behavior. (cshlpress.com)
  • Evolution of conservation of marine biodiversity, Coral reefs, Evolutionary and population genetics, Natural selection and adaptation. (ucla.edu)
  • Animal behaviour has been one of the fastest-growing scientific disciplines of recent years. (pdfdrive.com)
  • Receive email alerts on new books, offers and news in Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Winter Meeting. (cambridge.org)
  • Collective animal behaviour is a form of social behavior involving the coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals as well as emergent properties of these groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am a zoologist with a particular interest in the evolution of behaviour. (lu.se)
  • He studies the mathematics of collective animal behaviour, social dynamics and mathematical biology. (lu.se)
  • David is the author of S occermatics and Outnumbered, which have been translated into ten languages, and Collective Animal Behaviour , the leading text in the academic field he helped create. (lu.se)
  • In this timely volume, the first one synthesizing and integrating the research on animal personality, Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri, two recognized scholars of behavioral biology, provide a collection of essays diverse in biological approaches and levels of investigation as well as in species―from invertebrates to monkeys and apes, including humans. (pdflibrary.net)
  • The term homosexual was coined by the Hungarian writer and campaigner Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868 to describe same-sex sexual attraction and sexual behavior in humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its use in animal studies has been controversial for two main reasons: animal sexuality and motivating factors have been and remain poorly understood, and the term has strong cultural implications in western society that are irrelevant for species other than humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • In humans, the term is used to describe individual sexual behaviors as well as long-term relationships, but in some usages connotes a gay or lesbian social identity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientific writing would benefit from reserving this anthropomorphic term for humans and not using it to describe behavior in other animals, because of its deeply rooted context in human society. (wikipedia.org)
  • In most instances, it is presumed that the homosexual behavior is but part of the animal's overall sexual behavioral repertoire, making the animal "bisexual" rather than "homosexual" as the terms are commonly understood in humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dölen wanted to see whether serotonin was involved in social behaviors in octopuses, the way it is in humans. (brainfacts.org)
  • Still, this study opens the door for learning more about serotonin's role in octopus behavior, says David Gire, a neuroscientist who studies neural circuits in octopuses, rodents, and humans. (brainfacts.org)
  • For me, biology and evolution give the most satisfying explanations for the surprising phenomena of the world and for the unique characteristics of humans and all other life forms we rely on and interact with. (unifr.ch)
  • Although humans and various non-human animals demonstrate similar storage capacities, the evolution of manipulation ability remains relatively unspecified. (nature.com)
  • Here, we compare behavioral signatures of manipulation ability demonstrated by human adults and 6-to-8-year-old children with that of an animal separated from humans by over 300 million years of evolution: a Grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus) . (nature.com)
  • My research interests relate to how diet influences behavior in humans and nonhuman primates. (uwyo.edu)
  • One example: evolution advocates Kenneth Miller and Eugenie Scott cited the beta-globin pseudogene as knockdown evidence of common descent between humans and apes. (idthefuture.com)
  • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), contact with an infected tick or with blood or tis- caused by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever vi- sues from infected humans or animals. (cdc.gov)
  • I am a biologist and I study the biology of social behavior and what humans call "love. (medscape.com)
  • Oxytocin had already been called the "hormone of mother love" by people studying maternal behavior in animals and humans. (medscape.com)
  • and previously unknown infections may appear in humans living or working in changing ecologic conditions that increase their exposure to insect vectors, animal reservoirs, or environmental sources of novel pathogens. (cdc.gov)
  • In October 2023, biologists reported studies of animals (over 1,500 different species) that found same-sex behavior (not necessarily related to human orientation) may help improve social stability by reducing conflict within the groups studied. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study of animal personality is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in behavioral and evolutionary biology. (pdflibrary.net)
  • I perform sound recordings and behavioral non-invasive experiments in non-human animals (mostly seals), as a comparative effort to understand the evolutionary history of human capacities. (mpi.nl)
  • Moreover, the evolutionary history of this function has largely been unexamined, as existing behavioral research has lacked paradigms necessary to engage and test non-human animals 10 . (nature.com)
  • Behavioral ecology and social evolution, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. (ucla.edu)
  • Ecology and Evolution (2021) 11 (7): 3015. (karger.com)
  • First and foremost, I adore all things that include ecology and evolution, such as butterfly wing color patterns that can tell an ecological story. (ucc.ie)
  • I also consider art and science to be good matches, so I developed a game board for teaching ecology and evolution at a secondary school where the butterflies' wing color patterns were the traits under selection. (ucc.ie)
  • In the field, we work on avian urban ecology and evolution, specifically on how dark-eyed juncos and house sparrows are affected by the urban landscape and unique urban stressors. (ucla.edu)
  • Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (lu.se)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:86. (lu.se)
  • Various non-human animal species exhibit behavior that can be interpreted as homosexual or bisexual. (wikipedia.org)
  • The sexual behavior of non-human animals takes many different forms, even within the same species, though homosexual behavior is best known from social species. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Bruce Bagemihl, when describing animals, the term homosexual is preferred over gay, lesbian, and other terms currently in use, as these are seen as even more bound to human homosexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biologists and social scientists rely on comparison to other species, and across human societies, to make sense of our species' social behavior. (santafe.edu)
  • Her research aims to understand the evolution of human behavior, working at the interface of biology and anthropology. (santafe.edu)
  • Studying the principles of collective animal behavior has relevance to human engineering problems through the philosophy of biomimetics . (wikipedia.org)
  • By comparing historical samples ranging from the early 1800s to 1933 against modern day genomes, we document evolution across thousands of generations, including time periods that encompass the species' initial occupation of northern Europe and an era of rapidly increasing human activity. (biorxiv.org)
  • I complement animal research with human testing, neurobiological evidence, mathematical models, and agent-based simulations. (mpi.nl)
  • To him, therefore, studies of brain processes will augment rather than replace other approaches to studying human behavior, and he fears that the widespread neglect of the interpersonal dimension will compromise our understanding of human nature. (edge.org)
  • Is mental manipulation a uniquely human ability, or can comparable competence be observed in non-human animals? (nature.com)
  • how evolutionary theory can be applied to understanding human behavior in contemporary society. (bradley.edu)
  • I am especially interested in studying nonhuman primates to gain understanding of human evolution. (uwyo.edu)
  • Crimean-Congohemorrhagicfevervirus(CCHFV)isen- virus circulation to neighboring countries could occur demicinAsia,infectingmanyanimalhosts,butCCHFV through introduction of infected ticks, human CCHF hasnotbeenreportedinMyanmar.Weconductedasero- cases, or movement of animals ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • However, clinical cases or serop- have been performed to identify human exposure revalence studies for CCHFV have not been reported to CCHFV caused by wild animal contact, despite in Myanmar, likely because active surveillance in hu- serologic evidence for exposure to CCHFV in nu- mans or animals has not been established ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Infectious disease transmission is sensitive to local, small-scale differences in weather, human modification of the landscape, the diversity of animal hosts, and human behavior that affects vector-human contact, among other factors. (cdc.gov)
  • and the impacts on human behavior. (cdc.gov)
  • [ 10 , 11 ] Most of these infected animals were slaughtered for human consumption before any clinical signs of BSE were noted. (medscape.com)
  • Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and no domesticated animals-from invertebrates to monkeys and apes-behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as personality. (pdflibrary.net)
  • In wild animals, researchers will as a rule not be able to map the entire life of an individual, and must infer from frequency of single observations of behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the study, researchers first measured the behavior of the octopus in the three-chambered enclosure without MDMA, then administered MDMA and put the animal back in the chamber to repeat the test. (brainfacts.org)
  • Researchers have been cataloging moonlight's effects on animals for decades and continue to mark new connections. (sciencenews.org)
  • Since the 18th century, the collections have grown continuously through private donations and researchers' collections of animals on land and in water, which means that today we have a rich collection of both domestic and foreign species from around the world and which we still proudly manage for the future. (lu.se)
  • Comparing this data to similar data from birds and mammals, the researchers uncovered links between animal aging rates, longevity, environments, traits, and behaviors-and made some surprising discoveries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • We applied two tests for the assumption of Brownian motion that generally have high power to reject data generated under non-Brownian niche-filling models for the evolution of traits in adaptive radiations. (nih.gov)
  • Pollinators are key drivers of floral evolution through natural selection on floral traits. (lu.se)
  • Traits such as venom, shells, and armor may help animals live longer by protecting them from predators. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Dölen wants to understand the brain structures and chemicals that govern social behavior - how they work in typical brains, what goes wrong in disorders with social impairments like autism and schizophrenia, and how they evolved over millennia. (brainfacts.org)
  • It probably reaches the mother's brain, and in our animal models we know that it has lifelong effects on the baby. (medscape.com)
  • Tissues such as brain, spinal cord, and small intestine, which may have a higher likelihood of containing the pathogenic agent of BSE, were removed during slaughter and sent for rendering (often to be used as nonruminant animal feed). (medscape.com)
  • In this view, animal personalities would be a product of pet owners' imagination and social-emotional needs. (pdflibrary.net)
  • Dölen has studied social behaviors in mammals for over a decade. (brainfacts.org)
  • In mammals at least, it's been implicated in almost everything you can think of, from digestion, to social behaviors, to mood. (brainfacts.org)
  • This is where MDMA comes in - it acts on this serotonin transporter and, at least in mammals, strongly promotes social behavior . (brainfacts.org)
  • A group of European scientists expressed similar concerns in a published commentary, pointing out that without a placebo group, it's difficult to say for certain whether the changes observed were actually due to MDMA, or if social behavior just changed with repeated exposure to another octopus. (brainfacts.org)
  • Support for the social and genetic function of aggregations, especially those formed by fish, can be seen in several aspects of their behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Women and their behavior: influence of psychological, social, and biological factors. (bradley.edu)
  • We began to study the neurology, biology, social behavior, and evolution of these processes. (medscape.com)
  • Ethology Ecology & Evolution (2022) 34 (5): 557. (karger.com)
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (2022) 338 (8): 460. (karger.com)
  • Most of my career, I focused on animal vocal communication and conducted playback studies with mammals, birds, and non-avian reptiles. (lu.se)
  • While most research on aging variation in animals has focused on birds and mammals, this team examined 77 different species of reptiles and amphibians in the wild. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Environmental factors applied to specification and understanding of behavior. (bradley.edu)
  • The quality of food has large effects on animals' ability to cope with different environmental challenges, such as temperature. (lu.se)
  • Hamilton, for instance, proposed that the aggregation of animals was due to a "selfish" avoidance of a predator and was thus a form of cover-seeking. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since UVR is a strong driver of zooplankton behavior, our results highlight that biotic factors, such as food patches, have profound effects on both the amplitude and the frequency of avoidance behavior. (lu.se)
  • The study of animal behavior is one of the most integrative endeavors in biology it encompasses how the behavior is acquired, how it works, why it has come to work as it does, and how it influences the behaving animal and the animals around it. (cshlpress.com)
  • Several recently discovered examples reveal how lunar light influences lion prey behavior, dung beetle navigation, fish growth, mass migrations and even birdsong. (sciencenews.org)
  • Such shifts can alter disease incidence depending on vector-host interaction, host immunity, and pathogen evolution. (cdc.gov)
  • On today's ID the Future host Andrew McDiarmid brings listeners a couple of fascinating recent articles from Evolution News & Science Today by David Coppedge. (idthefuture.com)
  • Evolution and functional consequences of diversity in leaf size, shape and venation. (ucla.edu)
  • however, this article conforms to the usage by modern research,: 122-166 [page needed] applying the term homosexuality to all sexual behavior (copulation, genital stimulation, mating games and sexual display behavior) between animals of the same sex. (wikipedia.org)
  • Research on diel vertical migration (DVM) is generally conducted at the population level, whereas few studies have focused on how individual animals behaviorally respond to threats when also having access to foraging opportunities. (lu.se)
  • At the Biology department I worked 10 years in a Linneaus environment focusing on animal migration, mainly with communication science towards the public as well as the research community. (lu.se)
  • Currently I am a research assistant in the cognitive zoology group at the department of Philosophy, where I for the past years mostly have been collecting experimental data on various animal species. (lu.se)
  • My research took that to the level of comparing adult-adult relationships and using a prairie vole animal model. (medscape.com)
  • The zoological collection has extensive collections of this group of animals, collected during expeditions or research projects since the first half of the 19th century and until today. (lu.se)
  • As a case study, we used these tests to explore the evolution of feeding adaptations in two radiations of warblers. (nih.gov)
  • Study 1 showed that presenting images of baby animals, versus adult animals, as the source of meat reduced appetite for meat, but this effect was weak and found exclusively among women. (researchgate.net)
  • Study 2 replicated and extended study 1 using a larger sample and two new animal sources. (researchgate.net)
  • Study 3 included a no animal comparison condition, and found greatest levels of reduced appetite for meat when the meat source was presented as a baby animal, as opposed to an adult animal or with no visual indication of the animal source. (researchgate.net)
  • An introduction to the scientific study of the nervous system and its relation to behavior. (bradley.edu)
  • Natural History focuses on the observation and systematic study of all living organisms in nature (animals, fungi, and plants). (mcgill.ca)
  • Overall, the cold-blooded animals in this study did not age more slowly or live longer than their warm-blooded counterparts. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This study sheds light on the evolution of aging and how it varies across species. (medlineplus.gov)
  • They started by collecting data from more than 100 populations of cold-blooded, four-legged animals (called "ectothermic tetrapods") around the world. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In general, I am interested in how the nervous system controls and coordinates behavior. (unifr.ch)
  • This may include same-sex sexual activity, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same-sex animal pairs. (wikipedia.org)
  • A previous 1999 book by Canadian biologist Bruce Bagemihl states same-sex behavior (comprising courtship, sexual, pair-bonding, and parental activities) has been documented in over 450 species of animals worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pauline Kergus uses artificial intelligence to model the thermal behavior of buildings. (lu.se)
  • In order to explore this feature, it is important to model building's thermal behavior in order to enable the use of demand-side management control strategies. (lu.se)
  • A second potential anti-predator effect of animal aggregations is the "many eyes" hypothesis. (wikipedia.org)
  • A meta-analysis of the results using Bayes factors revealed considerable cumulative evidence in favor of the hypothesis that images of baby animals temporarily reduce women's appetite for meat. (researchgate.net)
  • This hypothesis revolves around host manipulations induced by behaviors of the brood parasite. (wikidoc.org)
  • Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity. (wikipedia.org)
  • To navigate purposefully, an animal must align its body orientation with its intended target and adjust its course accordingly. (lu.se)
  • Climate change epidemiologicsurveyofloggingcommunitiesinMyanmar also is expected to infl uence the distribution of Hya- and found CCHFV exposure was common (9.8%) and lomma ticks and CCHFV infections ( 9 ), increasing the exposure to wild animal blood and body fluids was as- likelihood of disease expansion. (cdc.gov)
  • Everyone who has experienced close, long-term relationships with animals, such as pet owners or farmers, probably believes that domesticated animals show personality variation, the way people do. (pdflibrary.net)
  • evolution in natural populations with a current focus on the microbiome. (ucla.edu)
  • In the lab, we work on microbial evolution and how bacteria respond to multiple stressors, using antibiotics as stressors. (ucla.edu)
  • Laboratory work with animals. (bradley.edu)
  • In this project I will coordinate practical matters, manage the web page and also work with the animals. (lu.se)
  • They have been scientifically demonstrated in no domesticated animals as well-from invertebrates to monkeys and apes-and in a variety of different environments. (pdflibrary.net)
  • Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution? (karger.com)
  • The solitary African wild ass, a critically endangered species native to the Horn of Africa, will guard a watering hole, and mate with any arriving females, says Fiona Marshall , an archaeologist at Washington University in St. Louis who has long studied domestication of African animals and climatic shifts. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Scientists perceive homosexual behavior in animals to different degrees. (wikipedia.org)
  • This book provides a well-thought-out and integrated introduction to the complexity of animal behavior that should appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scientists in other fields in need of a succinct review of the field. (cshlpress.com)
  • Some scientists thought these animals might have longer lifespans due to their slower metabolic rates and lower energy demands, resulting in less damage to their cells and tissues and a slower aging process. (medlineplus.gov)
  • 1 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. (nih.gov)
  • GUIDING LIGHT Moonlight affects animals in many different ways. (sciencenews.org)
  • In light of these questions, the authors first review some of the basic concepts of ultimate and proximate aspects of behavior. (cshlpress.com)
  • In Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach, Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski address the interrelationship of these aspects of animal behavior, which Nikolaas Tinbergen codified in his four questions as causation, ontogeny, survival value, and evolution. (cshlpress.com)