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| Author | Hampton, R.R.; Sherry, D.F.; Shettleworth, S.J.; Khurgel, M.; Ivy, G. | ||||
| Title | Hippocampal volume and food-storing behavior are related in parids | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1995 | Publication  |
Brain, behavior and evolution | Abbreviated Journal | Brain Behav Evol |
| Volume | 45 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 54-61 |
| Keywords | Animals; Appetitive Behavior/*physiology; Birds/*anatomy & histology; Brain Mapping; Evolution; Food Preferences/physiology; Hippocampus/*anatomy & histology; Mental Recall/*physiology; Orientation/*physiology; Predatory Behavior/physiology; Social Environment; Species Specificity | ||||
| Abstract | The size of the hippocampus has been previously shown to reflect species differences and sex differences in reliance on spatial memory to locate ecologically important resources, such as food and mates. Black-capped chickadees (Parus atricapillus) cached more food than did either Mexican chickadees (P. sclateri) or bridled titmice (P. wollweberi) in two tests of food storing, one conducted in an aviary and another in smaller home cages. Black-capped chickadees were also found to have a larger hippocampus, relative to the size of the telencephalon, than the other two species. Differences in the frequency of food storing behavior among the three species have probably produced differences in the use of hippocampus-dependent memory and spatial information processing to recover stored food, resulting in graded selection for size of the hippocampus. | ||||
| Address | Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
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| ISSN | 0006-8977 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:7866771 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 379 | ||
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| Author | Dugatkin, L.; Alfieri, M. | ||||
| Title | Tit-For-Tat in guppies (Poecilia reticulata): the relative nature of cooperation and defection during predator inspection | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1991 | Publication |
Evolutionary Ecology | Abbreviated Journal | Evol. Ecol. |
| Volume | 5 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 300-309 |
| Keywords | Game theory – Tit-For-Tat – predator inspection – guppy | ||||
| Abstract | Summary The introduction of game-theoretical thinking into evolutionary biology has laid the groundwork for a heuristic view of animal behaviour in which individuals employ “strategies” – rules that instruct them how to behave in a given circumstance to maximize relative fitness. Axelrod and Hamilton (1981) found that a strategy called Tit-For-Tat (TFT) is one robust cooperative solution to the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game. There exists, however, little empirical evidence that animals employ TFT. Predator inspection in fish provides one ecological context in which to examine the use of the TFT strategy. | ||||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 2177 | ||
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| Author | Bruns, A.; Waltert, M.; Khorozyan, I. | ||||
| Title | The effectiveness of livestock protection measures against wolves (Canis lupus) and implications for their co-existence with humans | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication |
Global Ecology and Conservation | Abbreviated Journal | |
| Volume | 21 | Issue | Pages | e00868 | |
| Keywords | Carnivore; Depredation; Efficiency; Germany; Intervention; Predator | ||||
| Abstract | Wolves (Canis lupus) can kill domestic livestock resulting in intense conflicts with humans. Damage to livestock should be reduced to facilitate human-wolf coexistence and ensure positive outcomes of conservation efforts. Current knowledge on the effectiveness of livestock protection measures from wolves is limited and scattered in the literature. In this study, we compiled a dataset of 30 cases describing the application of 11 measures of protecting cattle and smaller livestock against wolves, estimated their effectiveness as a relative risk of damage, and identified the best measures for damage reduction. We found that: (1) lethal control and translocation were less effective than other measures, (2) deterrents, especially fladry which is a fence with ropes marked by hanging colored flags that sway in the wind and provide a visual warning signal, were more effective than guarding dogs; (3) deterrents, fencing, calving control and herding were very effective, but the last two measures included only one case each; and (4) protection of cattle was more effective than that of small stock (sheep and goats, or sheep only) and mixed cattle and small stock. In all of these cases, the relative risk of damage was reduced by 50-100%. Considering Germany as an example of a country with a recovering wolf population and escalating human-wolf conflicts, we suggest electric fences and electrified fladry as the most promising measures, which under suitable conditions can be accompanied by well-trained livestock guarding dogs, and the temporary use of deterrents during critical periods such as calving and lambing seasons. Further research in this field is of paramount importance to efficiently mitigate human-wolf conflicts. | ||||
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| ISSN | 2351-9894 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 6641 | ||
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| Author | Kharazyan, F.; Hassani, A.; Ahmadinejad, M.; Houpt, K.A. | ||||
| Title | The response of horses to predator stimuli. | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2008 | Publication |
IESM 2008 | Abbreviated Journal | |
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| Keywords | Caspian pony, Arab horse, predator stimuli | ||||
| Abstract | It is unknown whether or not wild horses“ instinct has remained during their centuries of taming. The knowledge of this matter gives riders the opportunity of knowing more not only about horse behavior but also about horse and rider safety. In the current research we try to study behavior of the two Iranian horse breed (Asil & Caspian) in confrontation with stimuli from predators. We explored which kind of stimuli (olfactory stimuli accompanied by auditory stimuli) affects horses more. We groupe horses based on breed, sex and age. All horses are adult. The test area is a room that equipped with ventilator, speaker, and other facilities that needs. The time spent in the test area varies between 5 and 20 min .The experiments were designed to investigate behavioral responses (locomotive activity ( standing , walk , trot , and exploration), eliminatory behavior (defecation, urination)) and physiological responses (measure and record of adrenalin dosages in blood samples before and after facing to stimuli and measured blood”s glucose and cortisol too) of horses to novel auditory and olfactory stimuli. We explored which kind of stimuli(Olfactory stimuli or auditory stimuli) affects horses more. The experiments were carried out under standardized conditions a total of 60 horses (30 Caspian ponies and 30 Asil horses), of different ages. We investigated how horses respond to two predator animals" (wolf and Iranian leopard) olfactory and auditory stimulus. The olfactory stimuli were: A: Urine /feces stimuli, B: Fur-derived stimuli. And The auditory stimulus were sound of wolf and Iranian Leopard. |
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| Address | of Animal Sciences, University of Technical and Vocational, Iran | ||||
| Corporate Author | Kharazyan, F. | Thesis | |||
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| Area | Expedition | Conference | IESM 2008 | ||
| Notes | Talk 15 min IESM 2008 Fullpaper | Approved | yes | ||
| Call Number | Equine Behaviour @ team @ | Serial | 4483 | ||
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| Author | Reid, P.J.; Shettleworth, S.J. | ||||
| Title | Detection of cryptic prey: search image or search rate? | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication |
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes | Abbreviated Journal | J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process |
| Volume | 18 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 273-286 |
| Keywords | Animals; Appetitive Behavior; *Attention; Color Perception; Columbidae; *Discrimination Learning; Food Preferences/psychology; *Imagination; *Mental Recall; *Predatory Behavior | ||||
| Abstract | Animals' improvement in capturing cryptic prey with experience has long been attributed to a perceptual mechanism, the specific search image. Detection could also be improved by adjusting rate of search. In a series of studies using both naturalistic and operant search tasks, pigeons searched for wheat, dyed to produce 1 conspicuous and 2 equally cryptic prey types. Contrary to the predictions of the search-rate hypothesis, pigeons given a choice between the 2 cryptic types took the type experienced most recently. However, experience with 1 cryptic type improved accuracy on the other cryptic type, a result inconsistent with a search image specific to 1 prey type. Search image may better be thought of as priming of attention to those features of the prey type that best distinguish the prey from the background. | ||||
| Address | University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
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| ISSN | 0097-7403 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:1619395 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 381 | ||
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| Author | Shettleworth, S.J.; Plowright, C.M. | ||||
| Title | How pigeons estimate rates of prey encounter | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 1992 | Publication |
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes | Abbreviated Journal | J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process |
| Volume | 18 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 219-235 |
| Keywords | Analysis of Variance; Animals; *Appetitive Behavior; Columbidae; Conditioning, Operant; Food Preferences/*psychology; Motivation; *Predatory Behavior; *Probability Learning; *Reinforcement Schedule; Social Environment | ||||
| Abstract | Pigeons were trained on operant schedules simulating successive encounters with prey items. When items were encountered on variable-interval schedules, birds were more likely to accept a poor item (long delay to food) the longer they had just searched, as if they were averaging prey density over a short memory window (Experiment 1). Responding as if the immediate future would be like the immediate past was reversed when a short search predicted a long search next time (Experiment 2). Experience with different degrees of environmental predictability appeared to change the length of the memory window (Experiment 3). The results may reflect linear waiting (Higa, Wynne, & Staddon, 1991), but they differ in some respects. The findings have implications for possible mechanisms of adjusting behavior to current reinforcement conditions. | ||||
| Address | Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
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| ISSN | 0097-7403 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:1619391 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 382 | ||
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| Author | Viscido, S.V.; Miller, M.; Wethey, D.S. | ||||
| Title | The dilemma of the selfish herd: the search for a realistic movement rule | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2002 | Publication |
Journal of theoretical biology | Abbreviated Journal | J. Theor. Biol. |
| Volume | 217 | Issue | 2 | Pages | 183-194 |
| Keywords | Animals; *Behavior, Animal; *Mass Behavior; Models, Biological; *Motor Activity; Predatory Behavior | ||||
| Abstract | The selfish herd hypothesis predicts that aggregations form because individuals move toward one another to minimize their own predation risk. The “dilemma of the selfish herd” is that movement rules that are easy for individuals to follow, fail to produce true aggregations, while rules that produce aggregations require individual behavior so complex that one may doubt most animals can follow them. If natural selection at the individual level is responsible for herding behavior, a solution to the dilemma must exist. Using computer simulations, we examined four different movement rules. Relative predation risk was different for all four movement rules (p<0.05). We defined three criteria for measuring the quality of a movement rule. A good movement rule should (a) be statistically likely to benefit an individual that follows it, (b) be something we can imagine most animals are capable of following, and (c) result in a centrally compact flock. The local crowded horizon rule, which allowed individuals to take the positions of many flock-mates into account, but decreased the influence of flock-mates with distance, best satisfied these criteria. The local crowded horizon rule was very sensitive to the animal's perceptive ability. Therefore, the animal's ability to detect its neighbors is an important factor in the dynamics of group formation. | ||||
| Address | Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA. viscido@u.washington.edu | ||||
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| ISSN | 0022-5193 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:12202112 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 554 | ||
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| Author | Viscido, S.V.; Miller, M.; Wethey, D.S. | ||||
| Title | The response of a selfish herd to an attack from outside the group perimeter | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2001 | Publication |
Journal of theoretical biology | Abbreviated Journal | J. Theor. Biol. |
| Volume | 208 | Issue | 3 | Pages | 315-328 |
| Keywords | Animals; *Behavior, Animal; *Computer Simulation; Models, Biological; *Movement; Predatory Behavior | ||||
| Abstract | According to the selfish herd hypothesis, animals can decrease predation risk by moving toward one another if the predator can appear anywhere and will attack the nearest target. Previous studies have shown that aggregations can form using simple movement rules designed to decrease each animal's Domain of Danger. However, if the predator attacks from outside the group's perimeter, these simple movement rules might not lead to aggregation. To test whether simple selfish movement rules would decrease predation risk for those situations when the predator attacks from outside the flock perimeter, we constructed a computer model that allowed flocks of 75 simulated fiddler crabs to react to one another, and to a predator attacking from 7 m away. We attacked simulated crab flocks with predators of different sizes and attack speeds, and computed relative predation risk after 120 time steps. Final trajectories showed flight toward the center of the flock, but curving away from the predator. Path curvature depended on the predator's size and approach speed. The average crab experienced a greater decrease in predation risk when the predator was small or slow moving. Regardless of the predator's size and speed, however, predation risk always decreased as long as crabs took their flock-mates into account. We conclude that, even when flight away from an external predator occurs, the selfish avoidance of danger can lead to aggregation. | ||||
| Address | Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, U.S.A. viscido@u.washington.edu | ||||
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| ISSN | 0022-5193 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:11207093 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 555 | ||
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| Author | Arnold, K.; Zuberbuhler, K. | ||||
| Title | Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2006 | Publication |
Nature | Abbreviated Journal | Nature |
| Volume | 441 | Issue | 7091 | Pages | 303 |
| Keywords | Animal Migration; Animals; Eagles/physiology; *Evolution; Female; Haplorhini/*physiology; Male; Predatory Behavior; *Semantics; *Vocalization, Animal | ||||
| Abstract | Syntax sets human language apart from other natural communication systems, although its evolutionary origins are obscure. Here we show that free-ranging putty-nosed monkeys combine two vocalizations into different call sequences that are linked to specific external events, such as the presence of a predator and the imminent movement of the group. Our findings indicate that non-human primates can combine calls into higher-order sequences that have a particular meaning. | ||||
| Address | School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JP, UK | ||||
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| ISSN | 1476-4687 | ISBN | Medium | ||
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| Notes | PMID:16710411 | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | refbase @ user @ | Serial | 354 | ||
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| Author | Fenton, B.; Ratcliffe, J. | ||||
| Title | Animal behaviour: eavesdropping on bats | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2004 | Publication |
Nature | Abbreviated Journal | Nature |
| Volume | 429 | Issue | 6992 | Pages | 612-613 |
| Keywords | Acoustics; Animals; Chiroptera/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics/*physiology; Echolocation/*physiology; *Evolution; Phylogeny; Predatory Behavior/physiology; Species Specificity | ||||
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