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Author Clutton-Brock, T.H.
Title Primate social organisation and ecology Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Abbreviated Journal Nature
Volume 250 Issue 5467 Pages 539-542
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Abstract Attempts to relate interspecific differences in social organisation among primates to gross differences in habitat or diet type have been largely unsuccessful. This is probably partly because distantly related species have adapted to similar ecological situations in different ways and partly because much finer ecological differences are important.
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Notes 10.1038/250539a0 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4730
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Author Altmann, J.
Title Observational Study of Behavior: Sampling Methods Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal 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 Parker, G.A.
Title Assessment strategy and the evolution of fighting behaviour Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Journal of Theoretical Biology Abbreviated Journal J. Theor. Biol.
Volume 47 Issue 1 Pages 223-243
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Abstract The view is examined that the adaptive value of conventional aspects of fighting behaviour is for assessment of relative RHP (resource holding power) of the combatants. Outcomes of aggressive disputes should be decided by each individual's fitness budget available for expenditure during a fight (determined by the fitness difference between adoption of alternative strategies, escalation or withdrawal without escalation) and on the rate of expenditure of the fitness budget if escalation occurs (determined by the RHPs of the combatants). Thus response thresholds for alternative strategies (“assessments”) will be determined by natural selection on a basis of which opponent is likely to expend its fitness budget first, should escalation occur. This “loser” should retreat (before escalation) and the winner should stay in possession of the resource. Many aggressive decisions depend on whether one is a resource holder, or an attacker. Assuming the RHP of the combatants to be equal, there are many instances of fitness pay-off imbalances between holder and attacker which should weight the dispute outcome in favour of one or other opponent by allowing it a greater expendable fitness budget. Usually the weighting favours the holder; the attacker therefore needs a correspondingly higher RHP before it may be expected to win. This is not invariably the case, and much observed data fits the predictions of this sort of model. If assessments are perfect and budget expenditure rates exactly predictable, then there would never seem to be any case for escalation. Escalation can be explained in terms of injury inflictions (expenditures) occurring as discrete events; i.e. as “bouts” won or lost during fighting. Assessment can give only a probabilistic prediction of the outcome of a bout. A simple model is developed to investigate escalation situations. Each combatant assesses relative RHP; this correlates with an absolute probability of winning the next bout (cabs). The stake played for is infliction of loss of RHP and is determined by the fitness budgets of the opponents. (Each individual plays for the withdrawal of its opponent.) This defines a critical probability of winning (ccrit) for each combatant, above which escalation is the favourable strategy (cabs > ccrit) and below which withdrawal is favourable (cabs < ccrit). Escalation should occur only where cabs-ccrit is positive for both combatants. This model gives predictions compatible with the observations, indicating that RHP loss alone can be adequate to explain withdrawal: escalation behaviour. Withdrawal tendency will be increased by low searching costs. Escalations should be restricted to closely matched RHP opponents if RHP disparity is the major imbalance. Outside the “escalation range” of a given individual, the higher RHP individual wins and the lower one loses (i.e. it should withdraw after conventional display). RHP disparity and holder: attacker imbalance should both interact to shape the observed pattern, though their relative importances will depend on species and situation. In some instances selection may favour immediate withdrawal from an occupied territory even without assessment of RHP.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4935
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Author Bourdin, P.; Laurent, A.
Title [Ecology of African horsesickness] Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Revue d'Elevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux Abbreviated Journal Rev Elev Med Vet Pays Trop
Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 163-168
Keywords (up) African Horse Sickness/*epidemiology/transmission; Animals; Disease Reservoirs/veterinary; Horses; Humans; Insect Vectors
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Language French Summary Language Original Title Note sur l'ecologie de la peste equine africaine
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ISSN 0035-1865 ISBN Medium
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Notes PMID:4619907 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2710
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Author Mirzaeva, A.G.
Title [Age makeup of female Culicoides sinanoensis Tok. in the coniferous-broad-leaved forest zone of the southern Maritime Territory] Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Parazitologiia Abbreviated Journal Parazitologiia
Volume 8 Issue 6 Pages 524-530
Keywords (up) Age Factors; Animals; *Ceratopogonidae/physiology; Corpus Luteum/physiology; Ecology; Female; Horses/parasitology; Humans; Ovulation; Pigments, Biological/physiology; Seasons; Siberia; Trees
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Language Russian Summary Language Original Title Vozrastnoi sostav samok Culicoides sinanoensis Tok. v zone khvoino-shirokolistvennykh lesov Iuzhnogo Primor'ia
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ISSN 0031-1847 ISBN Medium
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Notes PMID:4449654 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2707
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Author Collery, L.
Title Observations of equine animals under farm and feral conditions Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Equine veterinary journal Abbreviated Journal Equine Vet J
Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 170-173
Keywords (up) Aggression; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Breeding; Circadian Rhythm; Feeding Behavior; Female; Horses/*physiology; Housing, Animal; Humans; Male; Pregnancy; Puberty; Reproduction; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Social Dominance
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Notes PMID:4473340 Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 680
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Author Hrdy, S.B.
Title Male-male competition and infanticide among the langurs (Presbytis entellus) of Abu, Rajasthan Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Folia Primatologica; International Journal of Primatology Abbreviated Journal Folia Primatol (Basel)
Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 19-58
Keywords (up) Aggression; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Coitus; *Competitive Behavior; Estrus; Feeding Behavior; Female; *Haplorhini; Homing Behavior; Humans; India; Infanticide; Leadership; Male; Maternal Behavior; Population Density; Pregnancy; Rain; Seasons; Sex Factors; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Social Behavior; Temperature; Vocalization, Animal
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ISSN 0015-5713 ISBN Medium
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Notes PMID:4215710 Approved no
Call Number Serial 2051
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Author Mrosovsky, N.; Shettleworth, S.J.
Title Further studies of the sea-finding mechanism in green turtle hatchlings Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Behaviour Abbreviated Journal Behaviour
Volume 51 Issue 3-4 Pages 195-208
Keywords (up) Animals; *Animals, Newborn/physiology; Contact Lenses; Locomotion; *Orientation; Retina/physiology; *Turtles/physiology; Visual Fields; *Visual Perception; Water
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Notes PMID:4447586 Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 389
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Author Davies, R.B.; Clark, G.G.
Title Trypanosomes from elk and horse flies in New Mexico Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Journal of Wildlife Diseases Abbreviated Journal J Wildl Dis
Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 63-65
Keywords (up) Animals; *Artiodactyla; Blood/microbiology; *Diptera; Ecology; *Insect Vectors; New Mexico; Trypanosoma/*isolation & purification; Trypanosomiasis/microbiology/*veterinary
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ISSN 0090-3558 ISBN Medium
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Notes PMID:4810218 Approved no
Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2709
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Author Lynch, J.J.; Fregin, G.F.; Mackie, J.B.; Monroe, R.R.J.
Title Heart rate changes in the horse to human contact Type Journal Article
Year 1974 Publication Psychophysiology Abbreviated Journal Psychophysiology
Volume 11 Issue 4 Pages 472-478
Keywords (up) Animals; Behavior, Animal; Electrocardiography/veterinary; *Heart Rate; Horses/*physiology; Humans; *Social Behavior; *Touch
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Notes PMID:4852234 Approved no
Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 1965
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