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4 days ago · animal communication, process by which one animal provides information that other animals can incorporate into their decision making. The vehicle for the provision of this information is called a signal.
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Signal design rules. The diversity of animal communication...
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Animal communication - Signal Reception, Perception,...
- Signal Design Rules
1 day ago · It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want ...
16 hours ago · To survive in ever-changing environments, living organisms need to continuously combine the ongoing external inputs they receive, representing present conditions, with their dynamical internal state, which includes influences of past experiences. It is still unclear in general, however 1) how this happens at the molecular and cellular levels and 2) how the corresponding molecular and cellular ...
4 days ago · The anabantoid paradise fish ( Macropodus opercularis ), an “air-breather” species has a highly complex behavioral repertoire and has been the subject of many ethological investigations but ...
1 day ago · The primary goal of behavioural genetics is to investigate the nature and origins of individual differences in behaviour. [3] A wide variety of different methodological approaches are used in behavioural genetic research, [14] only a few of which are outlined below.
2 days ago · brain, the mass of nerve tissue in the anterior end of an organism. The brain integrates sensory information and directs motor responses; in higher vertebrates it is also the centre of learning. The human brain weighs approximately 1.4 kg (3 pounds) and is made up of billions of cells called neurons.
16 hours ago · Hunger is a primal urge that transcends the complexity of organisms, impacting the behavior of both the simplest and most complex life forms. While in many organisms hunger-related behaviors are mediated by the brain, researchers from the University of Kiel, including zoologist Christoph Giez, have been studying a brainless freshwater dweller – the hydra – to understand the mechanisms of ...
