Understanding human and other animal behaviour: Ethology, welfare and food policy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2018.05.032
Abstract: Abstract Food security and sustainability are paramount goals of global policy in the Twenty First Century. What are the contributions of applied ethology and animal welfare in delivering these major goals? Livestock plays a major… read more here.
Keywords: policy; livestock; ethology; food ... See more keywords
Animal behaviour: Faecal odours act as rhino signals
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DOI: 10.1038/541262a
Abstract: sniffing one another’s faeces. Many mammals communicate through smells in their urine. To see whether faeces have a similar role, Courtney Marneweck at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and her colleagues analysed… read more here.
Keywords: behaviour faecal; animal behaviour; odours act; rhino signals ... See more keywords
Animal behaviour: World of webs
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DOI: 10.1038/543314a
Abstract: Philip Ball finds himself caught up in artworks woven by thousands of South American spiders. read more here.
Keywords: world webs; behaviour world; animal behaviour;
From behaviour to consciousness: Translating what animals do to what animals think
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DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2019.1691359
Abstract: Cognitive ethology, an interdisciplinary and comparative branch of zoology, is concerned with the influence of conscious awareness and intention on animal behaviour. It enquires into the evolutionary value of consciousness. However, consciousness is hard to… read more here.
Keywords: consciousness; conscious awareness; ethology; behaviour ... See more keywords
Challenges and solutions for studying collective animal behaviour in the wild
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0005
Abstract: Mobile animal groups provide some of the most compelling examples of self-organization in the natural world. While field observations of songbird flocks wheeling in the sky or anchovy schools fleeing from predators have inspired considerable… read more here.
Keywords: challenges solutions; solutions studying; collective animal; behaviour wild ... See more keywords
Editorial: On the importance of studying animal behaviour-Or any other kind of “blue sky” research
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DOI: 10.1111/eth.12920
Abstract: The necessity to do basic research, such as the study of animal behaviour, is often questioned. “What is this good for?” people may ask. Many discoveries of basic research lead to novel and practical applications… read more here.
Keywords: sky research; basic research; blue sky; research ... See more keywords