Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles [0.03%]
新热带滚粪球甲虫的性别角色可塑性和雌性竞争
Maria J Albo,Patricia González-Vainer
Maria J Albo
Numerous studies show that sex roles can be plastic, and different eco-evolutionary scenarios yield sexual selection also acting on females. Plastic sex roles can occur in response to environmental cues, such as when food and mate resources...
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: effect of experience and food distribution [0.03%]
经验与食物分布对一种独居觅食蚂蚁行为可塑性的影响
Maria Eduarda Lima Vieira,Stéphane Chameron,Heiko G Rödel et al.
Maria Eduarda Lima Vieira et al.
To deal with the unpredictability of available food resources, animals must adjust their behaviour to optimise foraging efficiency. Various mechanisms influence food acquisition behaviour, and our knowledge of their combined impact on forag...
Diego Cardozo Mascarenhas,Jeimmy Marion Penagos-Gil,Nathalia Santos-Costa et al.
Diego Cardozo Mascarenhas et al.
The scrutiny of social anxiety symptoms is necessary to overcome the obstacles encountered when managing this condition. Thus, it is important to study a new behavioral repertoire elicited by chronic social defeat stress (SDS), a social str...
A psychological model of the cognitive processes regulating exploratory behavior in animals [0.03%]
一个关于调节动物探索行为的认知过程的心理学模型
Wojciech Pisula
Wojciech Pisula
This article proposes a conceptual model of animal exploratory behavior that integrates principles from modular cognition and affordance theory. Recognizing a gap between empirical data and theoretical frameworks in comparative psychology, ...
Joshua B Hiltz,Timothy A Shahan
Joshua B Hiltz
Resurgence is an increase in a previously reinforced and subsequently extinguished target behavior following a worsening of conditions for a more recently reinforced alternative behavior. Despite extensive research on resurgence, there have...
Playing or Fighting? Home Cage Dynamics in Crowding or Social Instability Paradigms Contribute to Stress and Reproductive Impairments in Adult Female Wistar Rats [0.03%]
打斗或玩耍？密养或社会动荡引起的笼内活动导致成年雌性Wistar大鼠压力增加及繁殖能力受损
Marilou Poitras,Élodie A Ouellette,Sergio M Pellis et al.
Marilou Poitras et al.
Play fighting represents a key behavioral component in group-housed rats, yet its contribution to the outcomes of social stress paradigms remains unassessed. This study characterized play fighting behaviors over time in two social stress co...
T-maze navigation by juvenile wolf spiders provides evidence for learning [0.03%]
小狼蛛的T型迷宫导航行为提供了学习的证据
Hailey C Shannon,Ann L Rypstra
Hailey C Shannon
Mobile animals must effectively navigate through their environments to locate resources and avoid threats. In this study we designed a protocol to examine navigation in cursorial spiders and tested it on the wolf spider Tigrosa helluo (Walc...
Nuances in Fish Combat: Exploring Male and Female Differences in the Agonistic Behavior of an Amazonian Cichlid [0.03%]
鱼的战斗中的细微差别——亚马逊一条丽鱼属鱼类好斗行为中雌雄差异的研究
Carolina G Sarmento,Thaís B Carvalho,Helder L de Queiroz
Carolina G Sarmento
Agonistic interactions are present in the competition for limited resources in virtually all groups of social animals. However, little is known about the ways males and females dispute resources or defend or care for offspring. Here, we inv...
Rats show qualitative sex differences in interaction preferences among unfamiliar same-sex conspecifics [0.03%]
雄性和雌性大鼠与不熟悉的同性别同类相互作用的喜好差异
Yuki Ippongi,Yasushi Kiyokawa,Yukari Takeuchi
Yuki Ippongi
In social animals, behaviors toward conspecifics are influenced by group information of other individuals. One component of group information in rats is their strains. Our previous study suggests that rats can change their social interactio...
Species-specific behavioural responses to peripheral arginine vasopressin in two African striped mice (genus Rhabdomys) [0.03%]
两种非洲条纹鼠(Rhabdomys属)外周精氨酸加压素的行为反应的种间差异性响应
Candice Nikita Neves,Tasmin Lee Rymer,Kirsty-Jane Hartman et al.
Candice Nikita Neves et al.
Peripheral arginine vasopressin (AVP) administration modulates social behaviour in several mammalian species, although its effects are inconsistent and can be species- and context-specific. We investigated whether peripheral AVP modulates b...