Self-organizing conflicts: Group assessment and the spatio-temporal dynamics of ant territory battles [0.03%]
自组织冲突：群体评估与蚂蚁领土战争的时空动态性
Eldridge S Adams,Nicola J R Plowes
Eldridge S Adams
Territorial battles among ants exhibit temporal and spatial patterns that self-organize, arising spontaneously from distributed decisions by large numbers of individuals. We describe agent-based models of inter-group fights in ants and show...
Vladimir Orduña,Rodrigo Alba
Vladimir Orduña
Among the different procedures that model gambling behavior in non-human animals, the "suboptimal choice procedure" has been extensively employed for analyzing the impact of environmental cues on choice behavior. It has been repeatedly demo...
Testing the dear enemy relationship in fiddler crabs: Is there a difference between fighting conspecific and heterospecific opponents? [0.03%]
测试拟黑胡桃蟹“近敌关系”假说：同种和异种对手之间的争斗是否存在差异？
Bruno R Fogo,Fábio H C Sanches,Tânia M Costa
Bruno R Fogo
Reduction of aggressiveness toward familiar neighbors, when compared to aggressiveness toward unfamiliar strangers, can decrease the costs of territory defense. This phenomenon is known as the "dear enemy effect". Individuals may shift thei...
Jorge F S Menezes,Burt P Kotler,Austin K Dixon
Jorge F S Menezes
In this study, we addressed how frequently a non-traplining animal should visit food patches. More specifically, we investigate if non-traplining animals engage in a behavior called "defense by exploitation", which is characterized by an in...
Piloting a new prosociality paradigm in dogs and wolves: The location choice task [0.03%]
在狗和狼身上试用一种新的亲社会行为范例：“位置选择任务”
Rachel Dale,Marie-Noémie Despraz,Sarah Marshall-Pescini et al.
Rachel Dale et al.
The aim of this pilot study was to investigate whether or not dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) show prosociality in a simple T-maze experiment based on a previous study by Hernandez-Lallement et al. (2015). Prosociality, i.e...
Auditory sequence perception in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) [0.03%]
灰短尾猴（Callithrix jacchus）的听觉序列感知
Masumi Wakita
Masumi Wakita
One of the essential linguistic and musical faculties of humans is the ability to recognize the structure of sound configurations and to extract words and melodies from continuous sound sequences. However, monkeys' ability to process the te...
Overwinter temperature has no effect on problem solving abilities or responses to novelty in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) [0.03%]
过冬期间的温度对黑顶山雀(Poecile atricapillus)解决问题的能力或应对新事物的反应没有影响
R Jeffrey Martin,David F Sherry
R Jeffrey Martin
Birds overwintering at northern latitudes face challenging environments in which refined cognitive and behavioural responses to environmental stimuli could be a benefit. Populations of the same species from different latitudes have been sho...
A review of boundary conditions and variables involved in the prevention of return of fear after post-retrieval extinction [0.03%]
后检索消退灭绝后防止恐惧复发涉及的边界条件和变量综述
Pedro Fonseca Zuccolo,Maria Helena Leite Hunziker
Pedro Fonseca Zuccolo
Experimental evidence suggests that the return of fear may be prevented by post-retrieval extinction (PRE), a procedure consisting of extinction training after the presentation of a retrieval cue. However, attempts to replicate these findin...
Behavioral persistence is associated with poorer olfactory discrimination learning in domestic dogs [0.03%]
行为坚持与家犬较差的嗅觉辨别学习有关
S Dalal,N J Hall
S Dalal
Domestic dogs are trained for a wide variety of jobs; however, half of dogs that enter working dog training organizations never become certified. The aim of this study was to identify whether a basic measure of behavioral persistence was as...
Gastrointestinal nematode infection and feeding behaviour of goats in a heterogeneous vegetation: No evidence of therapeutic self-medication [0.03%]
山羊胃肠线虫感染及异质植被中的采食行为：无治愈性自疗的证据
L K Novelo-Chi,P G González-Pech,J Ventura-Cordero et al.
L K Novelo-Chi et al.
The aim of this study was to identify modifications in the feeding behaviour of goats browsing a tropical deciduous forest (TDF) when natural gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection was suppressed. Continuous bite monitoring through direc...