nest building
Fashion and out of fashion: appearance and disappearance of a novel nest building innovation
... novel nest building behavior, the use of pieces of plastic in Blackbird ...common nest materials are dried leaves, stalks, roots and earth that account for most nest ...this nest ...
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Male Blue Gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus) Nest Building Behavior Is Affected by Other Males and Females
... on nest-building blue gourami under experimental conditions ...male nest-building ...of nest-building by blue gourami males ...
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Social learning in nest building birds : a role for familiarity
... Nest building is widespread across birds and other taxonomic ...recently nest building by birds was considered to be innate [2 ...in nest structure and to changes in material choice by ...
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Nest building males trade off material collection costs with territory value
... birds building in more exposed than in more sheltered locations, although there are, as yet, no data to support these claims (Crook ...for building (Bailey et ...of nest material are based on ...
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What can nest building birds teach us?
... birds’ nest-building behaviours is to measure the repeatability of those behaviours over time ...of building actions (such as carrying, inserting, and dropping grass) the birds performed during two ...
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The neuroethology and evolution of nest building behaviour
... in nest building to those identified using pre-existing behavioural paradigms will help to increase our understanding of how the brain organises motor sequences across different ...whereas nest ...
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A role for nonapeptides and dopamine in nest building behaviour
... these nest-building behaviours ...In nest-building birds, we measured six nest- building behaviours: pick up (when the bird picked up a piece of string), put down (when the bird ...
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Nest building and description of parental care behavior in a temperate reef fish, Chromis crusma (Pisces: Pomacentridae)
... as nest building by animals may provide useful information of population level ...assessed nest-building behavior through habitat modifications, and size of individuals performing parental ...
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Nest building, the forgotten behaviour
... As the nests that were built with only flexible material required, on average, over twice as many pieces of material to complete a nest it appears that birds select nest material based o[r] ...
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Vocal duetting behaviour in a neotropical wren: Insights into paternity guarding and parental commitment
... vocalizations to produce elaborate vocal duets. Although duets are produced by diverse animal taxa, the functions of these coordinated vocalizations remain poorly understood. In this thesis, I explored the ecology and ...
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The evolution of cerebellum structure correlates with nest complexity
... species-typical nest structure in birds. Increasing complexity of nest structure is a measure of a bird’s ability to manipulate nesting material into the required ...the nest built increases, setting ...
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Nest distribution and nest habitat of the Tibetan Partridge (Perdix hodgsoniae) near Lhasa, Tibet
... the nest areas but since we did not separate between them it is possible that the density recorded by us differed from the density experienced by the partridges prior to nest ...in nest site ...
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Bis(9) (−) Meptazinol, a novel dual binding AChE inhibitor, rescues cognitive deficits and pathological changes in APP/PS1 transgenic mice
... maze, nest-building and novel object recognition were used to examine learning and memory ...test, nest-building test and novel object recognition ...
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The nesting ecology of weaverbirds in Ekona farms, Southwest Region, Cameroon
... The impact of weather on the population biology of birds has been a major field of study by ornithologists over the past half century (George et al., 1992). Weather not only affects the metabolic rate of birds (e.g. Cold ...
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Birds build camouflaged nests
... (in nest-building materials: Sargent 1965, Muth and Healy 2011, 2012, Muth et ...for nest building than they do when choosing among differently colored food items), the cause of these ...
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Terpenoid Resin Distribution in Conifer Needles with Implications for Red Tree Vole, Arborimus longicaudus , Foraging
... as building mate- rial for their nests (Howell 1926; Maser et ...whereas nest building from the same needle tissues of Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce nest is more vari- ...for nest ...
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Comparative seasonality and diets of German (Vespula germanica) and common (V vulgaris) wasp colonies in Manawatu, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University
... INTRODUCTION METHODS General data Traffic rates Nest size Nest initiation and peak of colony growth Nest building effort RESULTS Seasonal traffic rate Diurnal traffic rate Nest size betw[r] ...
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Comparative seasonality and diets of German (Vespula germanica) and common (V vulgaris) wasp colonies in Manawatu, New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Zoology at Massey University
... INTRODUCTION METHODS General data Traffic rates Nest size Nest initiation and peak of colony growth Nest building effort RESULTS Seasonal traffic rate Diurnal traffic rate Nest size betw[r] ...
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Porcine circovirus type 2 associated reproductive failure in a specific pathogen free (SPF) piglet producing herd in Norway: a case report
... Conclusions: This case report describes an apparent link between in utero PCV2 infection, pre partum nest-building behaviour, mammary development and delayed farrowing. To date, no reports have described ...
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HOW TO TEST MEDICINES OF OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
... of which are relevant to OCD (in contrast to previous models, which showed abnormalities not typical of OCD, for example, obesity). Thus, Sapap3 knockout mice showed increased grooming and anxiety-like behaviors, and ...
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