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Author Boinski, S. doi  openurl
  Title Dispersal patterns among three species of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri oerstedii, S. boliviensis and S. sciureus): III. Cognition Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 142 Issue Pages 679-699  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 3509  
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Author Dow, M.; Ewing, A.W.; Sutherland, I. openurl 
  Title Studies on the behaviour of cyprinodont fish. III. The temporal patterning of aggression in Aphyosemion striatum (Boulenger) Type Journal Article
  Year 1976 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 59 Issue 3-4 Pages 252-268  
  Keywords *Aggression; Animals; *Behavior, Animal; Dominance-Subordination; *Fishes; Humans; Individuality; *Killifishes; Male; Time Factors  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4151  
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Author Bergmann, H.H.; Klaus, S.; Muller, F.; Wiesner, J. openurl 
  Title [Individuality and type specificity in the songs of a population of hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia bonasia L., Tetraoninae, Phasianidae)] Type Journal Article
  Year 1975 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 55 Issue 1-2 Pages 94-114  
  Keywords Animals; *Birds; Female; *Individuality; Male; Time Factors; *Vocalization, Animal  
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  Language German Summary Language Original Title Individualitat und Artspezifitat in den Gesangsstrophen einer Population des Haselhuhns (Bonasa bonasia bonasia L., Tetraoninae, Phasianidae)  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4152  
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Author Jensen, G.D.; Gordon, B.N.; Wolfheim, J. openurl 
  Title Nursing behavior in infant monkeys: a sequence analysis Type Journal Article
  Year 1975 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 55 Issue 1-2 Pages 115-127  
  Keywords Animals; Dependency (Psychology); *Feeding Behavior; Female; *Macaca; Male; Sensory Deprivation; Social Behavior; Spatial Behavior  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4153  
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Author Salzen, E.A.; Cornell, J.M. openurl 
  Title Self-perception and species recognition in birds Type Journal Article
  Year 1968 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 44-65  
  Keywords Animals; Birds; Color Perception; Discrimination Learning; Generalization, Response; Imprinting (Psychology); *Perception; *Self Concept; Social Isolation; *Species Specificity; Water  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4154  
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Author Jarman, P.J . doi  openurl
  Title The social behaviour of antelope in relation to their ecology Type Journal Article
  Year 1974 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 48 Issue 1-4 Pages 213-267  
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  Abstract The types of social organisation displayed by the African antelope species have been assigned in this paper to five classes, distinguished largely by the strategies used by the reproductively active males in securing mating rights, and the effects of those strategies on other social castes. The paper attempts to show that these strategies are appropriate to each class because of the effects of other, ecological, aspects of their ways of life. The paper describes different feeding styles among antelope, in terms of selection of food items and coverage of home ranges. It argues that these feeding styles bear a relationship to maximum group size of feeding animals through the influence of dispersion of food items upon group cohesion. The feeding styles also bear a relationship to body size and to habitat choice, both of which influence the antelope species' antipredator behaviour. Thus feeding style is related to anti-predator behaviour which, in many species, influences minimum group size. Group size and the pattern of movement over the annual home range affect the likelihood of females being found in a given place at a given time, and it is this likelihood which, to a large extent, determines the kind of strategy a male must employ to achieve mating rights. The effects of the different strategies employed by males can be seen in such aspects of each species' biology as sexual dimorphism, adult sex ratio, and differential distribution of the sexes.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4264  
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Author Barette, C.; Vandal, D. doi  openurl
  Title Social rank, dominance, antler size, and access to food in snow-bound wild woodland caribou Type Journal Article
  Year 1986 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 97 Issue 1-2 Pages 118-146  
  Keywords Canada; Quebec; Artiodactyla; Social dominance; Feeding behavior; Morphology; Antler; Rangifer tarandus; North America; America; Ungulata; Mammalia; Vertebrata  
  Abstract We spent two winters studying the social behaviour of wild woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) at a time when their main food (ground lichens; Cladina sp.) is available only at snow craters dug by the animals. The competition for access to such craters was severe, the animals constantly trying to take over the craters of others. During a two-month period when a group maintained a constant size (20) and composition (all age-sex classes represented), we could rank the animals in a rather linear dominance hierarchy (Landau's index = 0.87). Rank was correlated with access to resources, percent of time spent active, and percent of time feeding in craters. It was also correlated with age and antler size. However, rank is not an attribute of individuals, but of a relationship between individuals. As such it is only an intervening variable between physical attributes and access to resources, a variable whose value has meaning only within a given group. Among the three attributes studied (age, sex, antler size), the latter was by far the best predictor of the occurrence and outcome of interactions. Between two individuals within any of the three age-sex classes studied (adult and yearling males and adult females), the one with larger antlers initiated significantly more often, escalated its aggression (to the point of hitting the target) less often, and enjoyed a higher success rate in obtaining resources. When their antlers were larger than those of an adult male target (i.e. males that had shed their antlers), adult females won almost all their interactions with adult males even though they escalated only one fourth of them. This clarifies the long-standing speculation that female caribou have antlers and shed them later than males, in order to overcome their sexual handicap in competition for food in the winter. We conclude that the link between rank and dominance of an individual on one hand, and some of its attributes on the other (e.g. sex, age, weight, antler size) is fundamentally realized by the animal itself through its active preference for targets it is likely to beat, i.e. targets with smaller antlers.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4269  
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Author Schulte, N.; Klingel, H. url  doi
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  Title Herd Structure, Leadership, Dominance and Site Attachment of the Camel, Camelus Dromedarius Type Journal Article
  Year 1991 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 118 Issue 1-2 Pages 103-114  
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  Abstract Social structure and relationships in a herd of captive camels were studied in Kenya. During day and night the herd split up irrespective of kinship. Partner preferences existed only in those camels who had previously been kept in a small group separated from the herd. Dominance relationships are anonymous with four levels: a) dominant breeding bulls, b) females and bachelors, c) subadults, and d) calves. No stable leadership was observed, but individual preferences in the walking order existed when the camels left and entered the enclosure. During the night most camels showed an amazing attachment to a particular resting site; in a new boma they used corresponding sites. During moon nights activity was greatly increased.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4683  
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Author Altmann, J. url  doi
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  Title Observational Study of Behavior: Sampling Methods Type Journal Article
  Year 1974 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 49 Issue 3-4 Pages 227-266  
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  Abstract Seven major types of sampling for observational studies of social behavior have been found in the literature. These methods differ considerably in their suitability for providing unbiased data of various kinds. Below is a summary of the major recommended uses of each technique: In this paper, I have tried to point out the major strengths and weaknesses of each sampling method. Some methods are intrinsically biased with respect to many variables, others to fewer. In choosing a sampling method the main question is whether the procedure results in a biased sample of the variables under study. A method can produce a biased sample directly, as a result of intrinsic bias with respect to a study variable, or secondarily due to some degree of dependence (correlation) between the study variable and a directly-biased variable. In order to choose a sampling technique, the observer needs to consider carefully the characteristics of behavior and social interactions that are relevant to the study population and the research questions at hand. In most studies one will not have adequate empirical knowledge of the dependencies between relevant variables. Under the circumstances, the observer should avoid intrinsic biases to whatever extent possible, in particular those that direcly affect the variables under study. Finally, it will often be possible to use more than one sampling method in a study. Such samples can be taken successively or, under favorable conditions, even concurrently. For example, we have found it possible to take Instantaneous Samples of the identities and distances of nearest neighbors of a focal individual at five or ten minute intervals during Focal-Animal (behavior) Samples on that individual. Often during Focal-Animal Sampling one can also record All Occurrences of Some Behaviors, for the whole social group, for categories of conspicuous behavior, such as predation, intergroup contact, drinking, and so on. The extent to which concurrent multiple sampling is feasible will depend very much on the behavior categories and rate of occurrence, the observational conditions, etc. Where feasible, such multiple sampling can greatly aid in the efficient use of research time.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4684  
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Author Beauchamp, G. url  doi
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  Title Individual Differences In Activity And Exploration Influence Leadership In Pairs Of Foraging Zebra Finches Type Journal Article
  Year 2000 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal (up) Behaviour  
  Volume 137 Issue Pages 301-314  
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  Abstract This study investigated the role of dominance and level of activity and exploration on leadership in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) searching for food. In pairs of zebra finches fairly matched in size and that experienced the same level of food deprivation, the same bird consistently reached first one foraging patch over several trials. The same pattern of arrival to food occurred when resources were provided in two distant patches available concurrently, a situation that would potentially allow subordinates a greater access to resources. In further testing, the formation of new pairs with the same birds led to several changes in leadership, indicating that leadership is not an absolute feature. The member of a pair that proved to be the most active and exploratory during independent, solitary trials became the leader in nearly all pairs tested. The same pattern held true in newly rearranged pairs where individuals often experienced changes in dominance status. Dominance failed to be associated with leadership in all tests. The results suggest that in a relatively egalitarian species, level of activity and exploration may be a stronger predictor of leadership than dominance.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4698  
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