... sleep research.
“The beauty of the automated telemetry system is that it makes a new suite of animal behavior studies possible,” said Martin Wikelski, director of the Max Plank Institute for ...
... Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
"Animal communication has been a major emphasis in animal behavior and comparative psychology for many decades," Dr. Burghardt says. "However, in recent years, we have ...
... financial trends.
This is the first time game theory has been used to successfully predict novel animal behavior in the real world. The researchers believe this analysis could also shed light on the ...
... by adapting models more commonly used by economists to analyze financial trends. This is the first time game theory has been used to successfully predict novel animal behavior in the real world.
... --for the first time--the origin of a mass gathering and the subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals. Utilizing a new imaging technology invented by the researchers, they were able to ...
Same-sex behavior is downright universal in the animal kingdom, concludes a new review of existing research. Yep, homosexual behavior is common across species, from worms to frogs to birds - ...
An international study of animal behavior has important implications for human decision-making. For animals that live in social groups, and that includes humans, blindly following a leader could place ...
... non-human primates," said Capitanio, who studies animal behavior. Human and monkey brains show ... human behavior. However, he said, several complicating factors will always limit the number of animals ...
... Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have recently uncovered a breakthrough in animal behavior. In their recent study, they concluded that singing by male birds to attract females ...
... production of too much kynurenic acid is linked to troubled thinking that affects the research animals' behavior.
The compound is present in all human brains and has some useful functions. But in ...
... reported online this month in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science, Garner and his team ... mice."
To further test the ability of lab animals to control their environment, Garner and his research ...
... "It's a very integrated communication system, very elaborate and very elegant, one of the seven wonders of the animal behavior world."
(To see a video of the waggle dance, please go to: http://www. ...
... , Robertson said polarized light reflected from man-made structures can overwhelm natural cues to animal behavior. Dragonflies can be prompted to lay eggs on roads or parking lots instead of water, ...
... be fast, you just have to be more erratic," said Tom Eisner, a world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Chemical Ecology at Cornell. ...
... a tool for assessing the efficacy of anti-compulsive treatments. It's the first to connect animal behavior to human OCD, and was recently presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, ...