Social behavior in animals
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While most primates are tropical animals, a number of species experience markedly cold winters. In a high latitude arid environment, wild female vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) that are socially integrated experience reduced cold... more
Individual cages represent a widely used housing condition in laboratories. This isolation represents an impoverished physical and social environment in gregarious animals. It prevents animals from socializing even when auditory and... more
Housing systems should enable animals to interact socially while minimising aggression. This study investigated whether social interaction patterns in groups of indoor-housed gestating sows are affected by stocking density (‘SD’), by... more
Behavior and Social Issues, 19, ??-?? (2010). © Mickey Keenan, Karola Dillenburger, Paolo Moderato, & Hanns-Rüdiger Röttgers. Readers of this article may copy it without the copyright owner's permission, if the author and... more
Реконструкция социальной системы вида требует много большего, чем обобщение всех непосредственно наблюдаемых случаев. Нужен гипотетико-дедуктивный метод, когда разнотипным местным реализациям, как при складывании паззла из кусочков,... more
Parent–offspring conflict (POC) theory provides an interesting premise for understanding social dynamics in facultatively social species. In free-ranging dogs, mothers increase conflict over extended parental care with their pups beyond... more
To determine whether the production of sexuals in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, is related to queen number in the field, the numbers of sexuals in monogyne (M) and polygyne (P) colonies of this species were compared. Large... more
The reproductive status of individual queens in relation to the number of queens in polygyne colonies of Solenopsis invicta Buren was investigated under both field and laboratory conditions. In field colonies, the weight of individual... more
For people who live with dogs, it's hard imagining life without canines. Dogs provide companionship, protection, and assistance. However, dogs also are subjected to all sorts of tortures in medical research and are a source of food for... more
Three questions about female-female relationships remain largely unexplored in female-philopatric platyrrhines. First, to what extent is female dominance status dependent on coalitional support? Second, how stable are female dominance... more
Faragó et al (hereafter FMS&G) draw attention to an important issue for researchers of human-robot interaction (HRI): can we conceive a scheme for making social robot behaviour both comprehensible and appropriate in human social settings?... more
A year-long Þeld experiment showed that Reticulitermes flavipes attacked and used single stakes and wooden stake bundles differently in two habitats that varied in alternative forage. In both habitats, the number of termites present in... more