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Journal articles on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Hemsworth, P. H. "Human-animal interactions in agriculture and their impact on animal welfare and performance." BSAP Occasional Publication 20 (1997): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263967x00043342.

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AbstractHuman-animal interactions are a common feature of modern intensive farming systems and these interactions may have marked consequences on animal productivity and welfare. Research in agriculture has shown interrelationships between the stockperson’s attitudes and behaviour and the behaviour, productivity and welfare of farm animals and the following model of human-animal interactions in agriculture has been proposed. Because a stockperson’s behaviour towards animals is largely under volitional control, this behaviour is strongly influenced by the attitudes that the stockperson holds about the animals. These attitudes and consequent behaviours predominantly affect the animal’s fear of humans which, in turn, affects the animal’s performance and welfare. The mechanism whereby fear affects performance and welfare appears to be through a chronic stress response. The risk to welfare also arises if the stockperson’s attitude and behaviour towards the animals are negative because the stockperson’s commitment to the surveillance of, and the attendance to, welfare issues is likely to be highly questionable.Recent research in the pig industry has shown that a training programme targeting the key attitudes and behaviour of stockpersons produced improvements in stockperson attitudes and behaviour and animal behaviour and productivity. These results indicate the potential to improve animal productivity and welfare by targeting the stockperson’s attitudes and behaviour for improvement. Techniques which may be useful in this regard include staff selection and training procedures addressing these important human attributes.
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Fleg, Anthony. "Animal behaviour." BMJ 329, no. 7460 (July 31, 2004): s47—s48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7460.s47.

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Brambell, M. "Animal behaviour." Veterinary Record 128, no. 14 (April 6, 1991): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.128.14.339-b.

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Welshman, M. "Animal behaviour." Veterinary Record 128, no. 17 (April 27, 1991): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.128.17.412.

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Tribe, Andrew. "Animal Behaviour." Australian Veterinary Journal 70, no. 11 (November 1993): 431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-0813.1993.tb06094.x.

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Leyhausen, Paul. "Animal behaviour." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 17, no. 3-4 (June 1987): 386–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-1591(87)90180-8.

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Fleg, Anthony. "Animal behaviour." BMJ 328, Suppl S6 (June 1, 2004): 0406246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0406246.

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Barbacka‐Surowiak, G. "Animal behaviour." Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research 24, no. 4 (November 1993): 317–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09291019309360257.

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Davydova, O. N., V. N. Chubarev, F. P. Krendal, N. A. Kulinchenko, N. G. Preferanskya, M. D. Savina, and A. N. Vanushkin. "Animal behaviour." Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research 24, no. 4 (November 1993): 320–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09291019309360258.

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Lewandowski, M. H., and B. Majewska. "Animal behaviour." Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research 24, no. 4 (November 1993): 323–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09291019309360259.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Couzin, Iain D. "Collective animal behaviour." Thesis, University of Bath, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301544.

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I investigate collective behaviour using a wide range of theoretical and experimental approaches. Individual-based (Lagrangian) computer modelling is used extensively to reveal how individual movement and interactions result in group characteristics. This technique is used to gain insight into the structured patterns of movement within human crowds and the development of trail networks by ants. These models reveal the importance of interactions among individuals to density-dependent group behaviour. A simulation of animal groups in three-dimensional space reveals the existence of several robust collective patterns. Simulated groups show similar group-level behaviour and internal structure to natural groups. The model also reveals how differences among individuals influence group structure, and how individuals employing simple, local rules of thumb, can accurately change their relative position within a group (for example, to move to the centre, or to the periphery) without necessitating information regarding their current position within the group. New techniques in computer vision are introduced that can facilitate the automatic analysis of collective motion. This software can simultaneously track and analyse the movement of a large number (hundreds) of organisms. Computer vision is used to reveal the spatio-temporal patterns of activity in ant colonies for the first time. I also show how it can record detailed aspects of individual behaviour, including the movement of, and production of honeydew and offspring by, aphids. This technique is used in a detailed analysis of ant exploratory behaviour, revealing temporal and spatial information about the movement patterns of individual ants, and the relationship between individual behaviour and collective exploration. Simultaneous digital tracking of organisms is a powerful technique that in the future is likely to provide insight into the behaviour of many animal groups.
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Faria, Jolyon Sebastian. "Collective animal behaviour in moving groups." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531630.

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Farrand, Alexandra. "The effect of zoo visitors on the behaviour and welfare of zoo mammals." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/300.

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There is evidence that the presence of the visiting public affects the behaviour of zoo-housed mammals. Understanding the effect of visitors is important in improving animal welfare, achieving zoo conservation goals, increasing visitor education/entertainment, and facilitating interpretation of data on zoo animal biology. A series of studies and experiments focusing on the effect of zoo visitors on captive mammal behaviour is presented. The influence of visitor density on a range of primates and large carnivores is examined. Methodological concerns regarding the operational definition of visitor density in the literature are expressed and a clarification of terms which may be helpful when comparing previous research is provided. Visitor noise data, using an objective measure of the variable, and its relationship to visitor density are also presented. External and internal visual barriers between visitors and zoo animals were hypothesised to moderate the visitor effect and enrich the environment of the study groups. Camouflage nets mounted on the outside of enclosure viewing windows had little impact on primate or felid behaviour, with the exception of the Sumatran orangutan group, who showed a trend toward decreased social play in the presence of the external barrier. Polar bear behaviour showed evidence of an enriched environment, with trends toward increased levels of swimming and decreased levels of resting. An internal visual barrier, which prevented visitors from having visual contact with the golden lion tamarins when the nonhuman primates were behind it, was also tested and elicited more extensive trends toward behavioural change than did the nets. Both Sumatran orangutans and zoo visitors were provided with a similar puzzle feeder in an effort to enrich the orangutan enclosure, and improve the visitor experience. It was hypothesised that the orangutans might be stimulated by watching visitors manipulate the device, but this did not occur. Orangutan use of the puzzle feeder within their enclosure was also unaffected. Olfactory stimuli were introduced into primate and felid enclosures and visitor viewing areas to investigate the role olfaction may play in the visitor effect. Although olfactory stimuli had an extensive significant effect on the behaviour of the study groups when it was introduced into the enclosure, there was little change when visitors were associated with the olfactory stimuli which suggest there may not be an olfactory visitor effect in primates or felids. The effect of visitors on petting zoo-housed mixed-breed goats, llama, and Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs was studied and compared to their behaviour without the presence of visitors. The goats were unaffected and the llama showed only a trend toward decreased levels of sitting in the presence of visitors. The Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs were significantly affected by the presence of visitors, exhibiting decreased inactivity and social behaviour. The hypothesis that a sustained absence of visitors would result in a more intense visitor effect was tested and was not supported by the data. An additional experiment investigating the effect of visitor grooming on the petting zoo study species showed that, while visitors spent more time interacting with the animals in the grooming condition, xiv the behaviour of the study animals indicated that they did not find visitor grooming rewarding. Data on the interaction between visitor density and the various experimental techniques tested here indicate that visitor density may impact animal response to environmental enrichment, supporting previous findings in the literature. In the presence of visual barriers, foraging devices, and olfactory stimuli, the relationship between animal behaviour and visitor density changed significantly, both qualitatively and quantitatively. These results suggest that collecting visitor density data when testing environmental enrichment techniques could be helpful when assessing their effectiveness, ultimately improving the welfare of zoo-housed mammals. Based on the data presented here, in conjunction with the literature, a closing discussion outlines proposed refinements to the visitor effect research guidelines published by the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (2005).
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Fontana, I. "SOUND TECHNOLOGY IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TO ASSESS ANIMAL WELFARE, BEHAVIOUR AND PRODUCTION." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/340793.

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This thesis describes a methodology of Precision Livestock Farming, to investigate animal health and welfare, through the monitoring of animal behaviours and vocalisations using image and sounds analysis instead of the visual observation methods. The main purpose of PLF is to improve the production efficiency, increasing animal and human health and welfare, through the application of advanced information and technologies, to control the entire production process. This thesis was particularly dedicated to the importance of using new technologies and methodologies to improve animal health, welfare and production.
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Toates, F. M. "Research papers in ophthalmology and animal behaviour." Thesis, City University London, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527198.

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Allcroft, David John. "Statistical models for short-term animal behaviour." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11132.

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This thesis aims to identify appropriate methods for the modelling of animal behaviour data, and in the wider context, any time series of categorical data. We make extensive use of a large dataset of cow feeding behaviour, consisting of full feeding records for a number of cows over one month, the data taking the form of binary time series, i.e. feeding/non-feeding periods. After initial exploratory data analysis, we go on to investigate three classes of model: latent Gaussian, hidden Markov and semi-Markov. The latent Gaussian model assumes the binary data occur from the thresholding of an underlying continuous variable. We identify the one-to-one relationship between the autocorrelation of the observed and latent variables and consider techniques for parameter estimation. For a multivariate stationary Gaussian process we show the asymptotic equivalence of the likelihood written in its spectral and conventional forms, and provide a proof that for short-term memory processes such as ARMA models, a good approximation for the spectral form is obtained using Fourier transforms of correlations at only the first few lags. A simulation study highlights the saving in computing time that this offers, and also shows that, in contrast to the least squares methods considered, the number of lags to retain is not crucial for obtaining efficient parameter estimates. Hidden Markov models also directly model the underlying state of the animal, but the latent variable here is discrete and follows a Markov chain, observations being dependent only on the current state. However, this type of model constrains the durations between feeding events to follow a mixture of geometric distributions, which is seen to be inappropriate for the data considered. Semi-Markov models simply involve the animal moving between a set of feeding and non-feeding states according to a set of transition probabilities, the marginal distributions for durations in each state being specified directly.
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Kardos, Monique. "A study in behaviour conservation : applying ecological learning theory to the maintenance of species-typical behaviour in small carnivores in a zoo environment /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk179.pdf.

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Lindqvist, Ann-Sophie. "Nandrolone decanoate, behaviour and brain : animal experimental studies /." Göteborg : Dep. of Psychology, Univ., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/68.

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Winter, Alice. "The behaviour and modification of inherent behaviour patterns of dairy cows under frequent and automatic milking management systems." Thesis, University of Reading, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357997.

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Robertson, Peter Charles John. "Movement behaviour of wild and rehabilitated juvenile foxes (Vulpes vulpes)." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238942.

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Books on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Bolhuis, Johan, and Luc-Alain Giraldeau. Animal Behaviour. 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446260838.

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Kappeler, Peter M. Animal Behaviour. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0.

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Brooks, Felicity. Animal behaviour. London: Usborne, 1992.

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Animal behaviour. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009.

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1945-, Halliday Tim, ed. Animal behaviour. London: Blandford, 1994.

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Understanding animal behaviour. Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland: Whittles Publishing, 2018.

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Unravelling animal behaviour. 2nd ed. Harlow [England]: Longman Scientific & Technical, 1995.

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Unravelling animal behaviour. Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1986.

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Pool, Ontario Assessment Instrument, ed. Animal behaviour: Draft. Toronto: Minister of Education, Ontario, 1989.

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Searching behaviour: The behavioural ecology of finding resources. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Davies, Roger, and Peter Houghton. "Animal behaviour." In Mastering Psychology, 213–29. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13553-0_13.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Predation." In Animal Behaviour, 121–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_7.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Sexual Selection: Evolutionary Foundations." In Animal Behaviour, 145–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_8.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Intersexual Selection: How Females Choose." In Animal Behaviour, 199–239. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_10.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Development and Control of Behaviour." In Animal Behaviour, 281–312. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_12.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Behavioural Biology: Content and History." In Animal Behaviour, 3–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_1.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Social Structure." In Animal Behaviour, 351–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_14.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Parental Care." In Animal Behaviour, 243–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_11.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Methods and Concepts of Behavioural Biology." In Animal Behaviour, 15–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_2.

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Kappeler, Peter M. "Habitat and Food Selection." In Animal Behaviour, 93–119. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82879-0_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Sten, Sabine. "Sacrificed animals in Swedish Late Iron Age monumental mound burials." In Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice. Swedish Institute at Athens, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55-16.

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Osteological analyses of prehistoric burials from Sweden often consider skeletal remains not only from the buried person, but also from animals. During the Swedish Iron Age Period (500 BC to AD 1050) cremation was common and towards the end of the period (AD 400 to 1050) many different animal species represented by a high number of individuals are often found in a single cremation grave. The skeletal remains represent animals that have been sacrificed and buried together with the dead person. Sometimes only parts of the animal bodies are found in the grave while in other instances the whole animal is present. The animal bone finds can be divided into two groups: animals that have been consumed, such as cattle, pig and sheep, and animals that were used in daily life such as dogs, horses, cats and birds of prey. Dogs are the most common animal in the cremation graves, while finds of birds of prey in particular indicate the high status of the buried person and suggest that falconry was practised.
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Vretemark, Maria. "Evidence of animal offerings in Iron Age Scandinavia." In Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice. Swedish Institute at Athens, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55-06.

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Written contemporary sources of animal sacrificial rituals in Iron Age Scandinavia are almost non-existent. However, we have some rare descriptions about the people of northern Europe from Roman historians. Most famous of these is of course Tacitus who gives us valuable information about life in Scandinavia during the first century AD. Among other things we learn about fertility rituals carried out in sacrificial bogs and we understand the close connection between the goddess and water. Tacitus’ descriptions, as well as younger sources such as the Old Norse religious texts of Scandinavia, also clearly tell us about the magic role of different animals such as birds, wild boar, wolf and horse. In the archaeological material we try to recognize traces of religious acts that once took place. But how can we tell the difference and distinguish between the remains of ritual animal offerings on one hand and the normal kitchen waste on the other? This paper deals with some examples of horse offerings in bogs and ponds and with ritual deposits of animal bones in dry settlement contexts in Sweden. Zooarchaeological analysis gives us valuable data and a key to interpret the animal bone assemblages as evidence of animal offerings.
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Rault, Jean-Loup, and Ludwig Huber. "Animal-computer technology meets social behaviour." In ACI2017: Fourth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3152130.3152134.

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Ekroth, Gunnel. "What we would like the bones to tell us: a sacrificial wish list." In Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice. Swedish Institute at Athens, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55-04.

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Animal bones comprise the only category of evidence for Greek cult which is constantly significantly increasing. The use of ever more sophisticated excavation methods demonstrates the importance of zooarchaeological material for the study of Greek religion and how such material can throw light on texts, inscriptions and images, as the animal bones constitute remains of actual ritual actions and not mere descriptions or representations of these actions. This paper outlines some areas where the zooarchaeological evidence may be of particular pertinence, for example, in elucidating the complex and idiosyncratic religious terminology of shares of sacrificial victims mentioned in sacred laws and sacrificial calendars, or in providing a context for a better understanding of the representations of animal parts on Attic vases. The role of meat within ancient Greek society, the choice of sacrificial victims and the handling of “non-sacrificable” animals such as game, dogs and equids within Greek cult can also be clarified by comparisons with the animal remains.
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MacKinnon, Michael. "“Side” matters: animal offerings at ancient Nemea." In Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice. Swedish Institute at Athens, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55-11.

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As the locus of the Nemean games, Ancient Nemea was an important Greek cult and festival center, especially during the Archaic period (6th–5th century BC). Examination of excavated faunal materials deriving from “sacred” and “secular” contexts at the site yields clues about the distribution of meat to gods (such as Zeus, the patron deity of the area), to heroes (in this case Opheltes, on whose legendary death the Nemean Games were founded), and to the mortal officials, spectators, and athletes participating in the events at Nemea. As regards “sacrificial” assemblages, most of which consisted of bone remains of burnt offerings as collected from altars and other ritual-type contexts, the data indicate a preference for sheep as the standard sacrificial animal, but show a definite preference for the hind limb sections of the left side in the case of sacrifice to the hero Opheltes, as opposed to the god Zeus. “Secular” deposits show different trends, such as the presence of unburnt bones, or the remains of wild animals and fish, taxa not typically sacrificed in Greek antiquity. Examination of zooarchaeological remains from various contexts at the site, at one level, and across other sites, at a larger level, helps develop a larger more integrated picture of animal use in ancient Greek cult practices.
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Guo, Y., P. Corke, G. Poulton, T. Wark, G. Bishop-Hurley, and D. Swain. "Animal Behaviour Understanding using Wireless Sensor Networks." In 2006 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcn.2006.322023.

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Manning, Timmy, Miguel Somarriba, Rainer Roehe, Simon Turner, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng, Brian Kelly, Jennifer Lynch, and Paul Walsh. "Automated Object Tracking for Animal Behaviour Studies." In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/bibm47256.2019.8983195.

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Popkin, Peter R. W. "Hittite animal sacrifice. Integrating zooarchaeology and textual analysis." In Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual practice. Swedish Institute at Athens, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55-09.

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In 2008, the disarticulated remains of a young male sheep skeleton deposited within a small Late Bronze Age pit were recovered at Kilise Tepe in south-central Turkey approximately 40 km inland from the Mediterranean coast. The pit, which exclusively contained the sheep skeleton, was located within a building whose size, design and artefactual contents indicate it was associated with ritual activity. The lack of disturbance to the pit and excellent state of preservation of the bones suggest elements that are missing were not originally deposited. The carcass was thoroughly dismembered, disarticulated and filleted prior to deposition. Contextual analysis of these skeletal remains provides a significant opportunity to move beyond the limits of textual analysis when studying Hittite animal sacrifice. By demonstrating the benefits of zooarchaeological analysis conducted in a context-specific fashion this paper offers the beginnings of a methodology for Anatolian specialists interested in examining ritual behaviour. More than a simple case study, this article combines two separate strands of archaeological evidence to investigate the complex issue of Hittite animal sacrifice.
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Prescott, T. J. "Robot spatial learning: insights from animal and human behaviour." In IEE Colloquium on Self Learning Robots. IEE, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic:19960145.

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Busch, Patrick, Frank Stupmann, and Hartmut Ewald. "Signal processing and behaviour recognition in animal welfare monitoring system." In 2018 IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering in Israel (ICSEE). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsee.2018.8646097.

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Reports on the topic "Animal behaviour"

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Corscadden, Louise, and Arpaporn Sutipatanasomboon. What Is Operant Behavior And How To Study It. Maze Engineers, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55157/me2022127.

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Operant behavior describes a type of voluntary goal-directed actions in animals based on the repercussions of previous occurrences. It develops when animals learn to specifically respond to recurring situations based on the outcome of their past experience. American psychologist B.F. Skinner was the first to use operant to describe the behaviors he observed in his landmark experiments in laboratory animals. Operant behavior and conditioning refine the nuance between conscious and unconscious behavioral responses, which influence psychology, and applied behavior analysis, and improve our understanding of addiction, substance dependence, child development, and decision-making.
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Singh, Anjali. What Is Optogenetics and How Does It Work? ConductScience, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55157/cs20220704.

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Optogenetics is a biotechnological method that combines optical systems and genetic engineering to control and monitor the functions of cells, tissues, and organisms. It involves using light-sensitive proteins called opsins to manipulate specific cells or regions with precision. This technique has revolutionized neuroscience, allowing researchers to study neural circuits and behavior by turning cells on and off. Opsins are categorized into microbial and animal types, each with specific functions. Optogenetic experiments require opsins, suitable plasmids or viral vectors, and a light source. This method has broad applications in neurology, animal behavior, and physiology, providing insights into various biological processes. It is used to map neural circuits, study diseases, and understand behaviors.
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Mengak, Michael T. Wildlife Translocation. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, July 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2018.7210105.ws.

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Many people enjoy wildlife. Nationwide, Americans spend over $144 billion annually on fishing, hunting, and wildlife-watching activities. However, wildlife is not always welcome in or near homes, buildings, or other property and can cause significant damage or health and safety issues. Many people who experience a wildlife conflict prefer to resolve the issue without harming the offending animal. Of the many options available (i.e., habitat modification, exclusion, repellents) for addressing nuisance wildlife problems, translocation—capturing and moving—of the offending animal is often perceived to be effective. However, trapping and translocating wild animals is rarely legal nor is it considered a viable solution by wildlife professionals for resolving most nuisance wildlife problems. Reasons to avoid translocating nuisance wildlife include legal restrictions, disease concerns, liability issues associated with injuries or damage caused by a translocated animal, stress to the animal, homing behavior, and risk of death to the animal. Translocation is appropriate in some situations such as re-establishing endangered species, enhancing genetic diversity, and stocking species in formerly occupied habitats. The main focus of this publication, however, is to address nuisance wildlife issues that may be commonly encountered by homeowners and nuisance wildlife control professionals.
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Koehl, M. A. Animal Plume-Tracing Behavior in Wave Influenced Flow Domains. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, July 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada405371.

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Ungar, Eugene D., Montague W. Demment, Uri M. Peiper, Emilio A. Laca, and Mario Gutman. The Prediction of Daily Intake in Grazing Cattle Using Methodologies, Models and Experiments that Integrate Pasture Structure and Ingestive Behavior. United States Department of Agriculture, July 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1994.7568789.bard.

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This project addressed the prediction of daily intake in grazing cattle using methodologies, models and experiments that integrate pasture structure and ingestive behavior. The broad objective was to develop concepts of optimal foraging that predicted ingestive behavior and instantaneous intake rate in single and multi-patch environments and extend them to the greater scales of time and space required to predict daily intake. Specific objectives included: to determine how sward structure affects the shape of patch depletion curves, to determine if the basic components of ingestive behavior of animals in groups differs from animals alone, and to evaluate and modify our existing models of foraging behavior and heterogeneity to incorporate larger scales of time and space. Patch depletion was found to be predominantly by horizon, with a significant decline in bite weight during horizon depletion. This decline derives from bite overlap, and is more pronounced on taller swards. These results were successfully predicted by a simple bite placement simulator. At greater spatial scales, patch selection was aimed at maximizing daily digestible intake, with the between patch search pattern being non-random. The processes of selecting a feeding station and foraging at a feeding station are fundamentally different. The marginal value theorem may not be the most appropriate paradigm for predicting residence time at a feeding station. Basic components of ingestive behavior were unaffected by the presence of other animals. Our results contribute to animal production systems by improving our understanding of the foraging process, by identifying the key sward parameters that determine intake rate and by improving existing conceptual and quantitative models of foraging behavior across spatial and temporal scales.
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Devine, Darragh. Self-Injurious Behavior: An Animal Model of an Autism Endophenotype. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada562420.

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Ware, Colin. Tools to Compare Diving-Animal Kinematics With Acoustic Behavior and Exposure. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada531220.

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Burgess, William C. Tools to Compare Diving-Animal Kinematics With Acoustic Behavior and Exposure. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada531852.

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Ware, Colin. Tools to Compare Diving-Animal Kinematics with Acoustic Behavior and Exposure. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada541849.

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Burgess, William C. Tools to Compare Diving-Animal Kinematics with Acoustic Behavior and Exposure. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada541850.

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