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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Behavior, Animal"”.
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An Investigation into Associations with Attachment, Companion Pet Attachment, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors in 18–20 Year Old College Students
… attachment, companion pet attachment and social behaviors in a sample of 120 students between the ages of 18-20 enrolled at Front Range Community College in Westminster CO during the fall semester 2008. The study is based on the research questions posed by Thompson and Gullone (2008) but pays …
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Self-selection of animal by-product by poultry through utilization of choice feeding
"The emergence of animal welfare provisions by humane societies has limited management practices. One of these provisions is the animal's freedom to express normal behavior. Animal by-product feeding to livestock and poultry is a common management practice and it is stigmatized in the public eye …
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Effects of Regional Deletion of Rab3A-interacting Molecule and PTEN on Brain Function
… populations to study brain region-specific behavioral functions. To this end, I utilized two different conditional knockdown techniques to study the role of the presynaptic active zone molecule Rab3A-interacting Molecule (RIM1) and the phosphatase and tensin homologue on chromosome 10 …
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Odorant Responses and Courtship Behaviors Influenced by at4 Neurons in Drosophila
… function as triggers to elicit complex behavior programs, such as courtship and mating. In most species, the neurons tuned to pheromones are localized in a specific subset of olfactory sensilla located on the antenna called trichoid sensilla. In Drosophila there are two classes of …
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The Role of CREB in Social Isolation and Natural Reward Behavior
… has been known to play a role in complex behaviors such as learning and memory, drug reward and depression. The work presented in this dissertation examines the role of CREB in an inactive stress paradigm, social isolation. Social isolation is a model which decreases CREB-mediated …
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Mechanisms of Volatile Odorant Detection and Corresponding Behavioral Effects in Drosophila
… in neuroscience concerns the molecular basis of behavior. Animals generate appropriate behavioral responses to environmental stimuli, which are mediated by primary sensory neurons of different modalities including sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. Olfaction serves a major role in conveying …
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Ventilation Behavior of the Mantis Shrimp, HEMISQUILLA ENSIGERA CALIFORNIENSIS IN HYPOXIC BURROWS
… Low pO<sub>2</sub> does not result in decreased animal activity, nor in movement of the animal toward the burrow entrance. <em>Hemisquilla ensigera</em> is capable of ventilating the burrow, but does not need to come to the entrance to do so. Ventilation is accomplished by prolonged pleopod …
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Behavioral, Neurochemical, and Histological Characterization of Mice Deficient for Parkin, DJ-1, and Antioxidant Proteins
… nigral cell loss, striatal dopamine depletion or behavioral abnormalities. Characterization of these mice for behavioral abnormalities, neurotransmitter defects and neuropathology, revealed significant behavioral abnormalities in the mutant mice even in the absence of significant changes to …
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Dispersal in small animal populations : a modeling approach to examine alternative hypotheses
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife,
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Information use, risk perception, and stress in wildlife populations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Grooming as an Agonistic Behavior in Garnett’s Small-Eared Bushbaby (<i>Otolemur garnettii</i>)
<p>Social behaviors are a necessary component of group living and interactions between organisms. To correctly assess social interactions, researchers must be able to observe behaviors and interpret their function based on the behavior or the behavioral context. In primate species, grooming is …
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The effects of effort and day of exposure on imprinting
24 pairs of newly-hatched Leghorn chicks were randomly divided into 3 groups. Ss in one group followed a moving object for 30 min on Day 1 of life; Ss in another group followed for 30 min on Day 2; Ss in the remaining group followed for 15 min on Day 1 and 15 min on Day 2. One S in each pair …
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The Development of Social Behavior in the Tibetan Macaque (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>)
… integration into adulthood for any highly social animal species. The development of social intelligence during the childhood and adolescence of a social organism affects the individual throughout its life. This social intelligence allows for the establishment and maintenance of bonds through the …
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Mother-Infant Interactions in a Free-Ranging Population of Pigtail Macaques (Macaca nemestrina)
… sampling methods to score mother and infant behaviors from two ethograms. I hypothesized that as infant age increased, mother and infant behaviors seen to be important in pigtail macaque mother-infant captive studies, would change over time. As infant age increased, mother permissive …
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The New Halal: Islamic Ethical Consumerism in the UK, Germany, and Egypt. A Social Movement Framing Approach
… promote the values of environmentalism, animal welfare, and fair trade in the UK, Germany, and Egypt. This dissertation argues that Muslim minorities in Europe frame a conventionally secular moral concern as a religious duty in order to connect Islam to contemporary consumption values. In …
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Relating behavioral context to acoustic parameters of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) vocalizations
… for determining identity of the vocalizing animal in a lagoon was developed. This method combined passive acoustic localization with video sampling to determine which animal vocalized. It fills an urgent need for unbiased identification of vocalizations of undisturbed dolphins where details …
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