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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"species-typical"”.
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Response of Three Species of Monkeys to Caregiver Use of Species-Typical Behavior
… positively to interactions with caregivers. Some species showed increased affiliative behaviors and decreased abnormal or self-directed behaviors after interactions. These studies showed that caregivers can affect the behavior of nonhuman primates. Caregivers are underutilized as a source of …
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The role of species typical cues in sexual conditioning : analysis of potential adaptive specializations in learning
… approach to learning investigations by employing species typical cues, and extends Pavlovian phenomenon to complex social interactions. The findings illustrate the benefits of integrating ethology and animal learning. The behavior systems approach to the study of animal learning is offered as a …
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An Investigation of patterns of mammalian scavenging in relation to vertebrate skeletal remains in a Northwestern European context: forensic applications.
… vary between regions, environments, scavenger species, and crime scene scenarios due to a variety of factors. Nonetheless, there is a gap in the knowledge of scavenger species found within Northwestern Europe. The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and Eurasian badger (Meles meles) are the largest wild …
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Modified postnatal social experience alters intersensory development of bobwhite quail chicks
… when these experiences need to occur to maintain species-typical intersensory development. Specifically, chicks in this study were reared in one of four conditions: with normal siblings, with altered tactile experience, with altered auditory experience, or with altered visual experience. Findings …
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The effects of augmented prenatal visual stimulation on postnatal perceptual responsiveness in Bobwhite quail
… stimulation show interference in subsequent species-typical perceptual development. Specifically, chicks continued to respond to maternal auditory cues into later stages of postnatal development and failed to respond to maternal visual cues at the age when normally reared chicks to exhibit …
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Type and amount of prenatal auditory experience alters postnatal perceptual responsiveness in bobwhite quail
… (Experiments 1A & 2A) and failed to demonstrate species-typical responsiveness to maternal visual cues (Experiments 1B & 2B). In contrast, embryos exposed to 5 min/hr of contentment calls continued to respond to maternal auditory cues into later stages of development (Experiment 2A) and exhibited …
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Neural Plasticity and the Development of Intersensory Functioning in Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus)
… can influence the emergence of normal or species-typical patterns of intersensory perception. For example, unusually early visual experience can produce a facilitative effect on subsequent postnatal perceptual responsiveness, while substantially augmented prenatal visual stimulation can …
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The Influence of Enhanced Tactile and Vestibular Sensory Stimulation on Subsequent Auditory and Visual Responsiveness: A Matter of Timing
… of auditory and visual responsiveness to species-typical maternal cues in bobwhite quail respectively. Although these results were attributed to the increased amount of sensory stimulation, these results may be a function of when prenatal augmented proximal exposure took place. To address …
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Effects of altered prenatal auditory experience on postnatal auditory preferences in bobwhite quail chicks
… Evidence from precocial neonates of several species indicates that altering the usual prenatal sound environment alters later perceptual performance. Part II of the present study examined the influence of altered prenatal auditory stimulation (in the form of embryonic vocalizations altered in …
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Social context affects behavioral responsiveness to maternal alarm calls in Bobwhite quail chicks
… the hiding site as an attractor, in that chicks typically huddled and froze around the hiding site structure. Experiment 3 examined the relative effects of individual testing on socially-reared bobwhite quail hatchlings. Results revealed that individually tested hatchlings increased their …
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Vegetation Ecology and Fire Effects on Community Structure, Composition, and Diversity in a Barrens Remnant and a Flatwoods in Southern Illinois
… as there were significant increases in species diversity and cover and dramatic changes among dominant species. Most increase in species diversity appears to be from soil seed banks. At GCB the increase was among species typical for the habitat while at MVF increase in diversity included …
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Mommy Issues: Do Differential Rearing Histories Affect the Social Behavior of Captive Chacma Baboons (<i>Papio ursinus</i>)
… the rate at which individuals participated in species-typical behaviors. Individuals of different rearing histories developed appropriate behaviors that mirror a wild troop based on their position in the dominance hierarchy, sex, and presence of kin in the troop. While my results suggest that …
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Enrichment Use & Social Interactions in a Mixed-Species Enclosure of Sumatran (Pongo abelij) & Bornean Orangutans (P. pygmaeus) & Northern White-Cheeked Gibbons (Nomascus leucogenys)
… well-being and can be designed to encourage species-typical behaviors, such as foraging and arboreality. Enrichment can include housing together multiple compatible species. Orangutans are sympatric with siamangs and agile and Bornean gibbons, so several zoos house these four Asian ape …
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The Ability of Speaking Rate to Influence Infants' Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech
… at faster relative rates. Research using avian species has shown that ducklings, for example, prefer their species- specific maternal call only when it is presented at values close to the species-typical mean. These studies have shown that experience affects ducklings' preferences for rate in …
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Factors Affecting the Distribution and Abundance of Microtus Ochrogaster and M. Pennsylvanicus in East-Central Illinois (Competition, Agonistic)
… Illinois. Local distribution of the two species indicated a strong negative association. Multivariate analysis of variance of the vegetation characteristics of M. ochrogaster and M. pennsylvanicus sites were characterized by a greater total vegetation biomass, a higher percent composition …
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An Investigation of Environmental Factors that Affect the Behavior and Welfare of Domestic Cats (Felis sylvestris catus)
… husbandry routine. One of societies concerns for species that are confined is space allotment and recently this concern has been raised in relation to confined cats. Typical cat housing in the U.S. is a small, single cage of less than 0.56 square meters (6 square feet) of floor space leading to an …
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Re-Evaluating Captive Chimpanzee “Dominance”: Dominance Hierarchy and Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
… position may be due to their use of chimpanzee-typical behaviors in their daily husbandry routines and interactions. Our results bear influence on captive welfare, health, translocation, and husbandry protocols across many nonhuman primate captive settings. Chapter IV investigates possible …
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Concrete ecological enhancement in the temperate marine environment
… of concrete substrates occur in tandem. Some species may offer more bioprotection than others, including calcareous encrusting species like oysters and barnacles. Finally, this section concludes with an experiment comparing the bioreceptivity of two low-carbon cement mixes with an ordinary …
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