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Animal behaviour encompasses the repertoire of actions and interactions through which individuals respond to internal states and external cues. These behaviours range from simple reflexes to complex ...
Scientists fix biologger tags to animals to gain an insight into their movement and behaviour. Vasileios Karafillidis/Shutterstock Biologging is the practice of ...
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This blog post addresses behavior across all animal species. It considers what we can learn about behavior when we do not limit our study to just humans. Studying nonhuman animal behaviors is ...
Does watching someone else relieve a nagging itch spark the same impulse in you? A study in mice suggests contagious itching may have evolved as a reflex to protect animals from threats. Now, Chen and ...
Recent advances in accelerometry have transformed the field of animal ecology by enabling the continuous monitoring of fine-scale movement and behaviour in free-ranging species. Accelerometers, often ...
Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...