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Laboratory observations reveal that mature Vespa mandarinia larvae continue calling at night 实验室观察发现，成熟的 Vespa mandarinia 幼虫会在夜间继续鸣叫

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.01.610616

Haruna FUJIOKA, Tatsuya SAGA

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The complex swarming dynamics of malaria mosquitoes emerges from simple minimally-interactive behavioral rules 疟疾蚊子复杂的成群动态源自简单的微交互行为规则

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.31.610631

Antoine Cribellier, Serge Poda, Roch Kounbobr Dabire, Abdoulaye Diabate, Olivier Roux, Florian T Muijres

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Multiyear Improvement In Batting Skills Following Targeted Perceptual Cognitive Training In Softball 在垒球运动中进行有针对性的感知认知训练后，击球技能得到多年提高

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.29.610321

Jordan Muraskin, Jason Sherwin

{"title":"Multiyear Improvement In Batting Skills Following Targeted Perceptual Cognitive Training In Softball","authors":"Jordan Muraskin, Jason Sherwin","doi":"10.1101/2024.08.29.610321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.29.610321","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Making quick, accurate decisions is crucial in competitive sports like softball, where perceptual-cognitive skills can significantly impact on-field performance. This study evaluates the long-term effectiveness of a targeted perceptual-cognitive training program, delivered through the uHIT platform, on improving batting performance in collegiate softball players.\u0000Methods: A longitudinal analysis was conducted on data collected from both NCAA and NAIA softball teams over multiple seasons. The study used Bayesian statistical methods to assess the impact of cognitive training on on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). The analysis incorporated weighted models to account for variability in games played and differences between teams, and the influence of team and year-division effects was considered. Key metrics, including Decision AUC and Response Time, were tracked to evaluate perceptual-cognitive improvements.\u0000Results: The results demonstrated significant improvements in OPS for teams that participated in the cognitive training intervention, with the weighted models indicating a substantial effect of the training on performance. Notably, the intervention was most effective in teams with higher training intensity, as evidenced by the permutation test results. The Bayesian analysis also revealed that the intervention led to statistically significant improvements in decision-making and response times, translating into enhanced on-field performance.\u0000Conclusion: The findings support the effectiveness of perceptual-cognitive training in improving real-world athletic performance in softball. The uHIT platform, as an ecologically valid training tool, has demonstrated its potential to serve as a critical component of athletic development programs. Future research should explore the long-term retention of these cognitive gains and their application across different sports and competitive levels.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions in Drosophila melanogaster 黑腹果蝇运动决策的时空动态变化

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.04.611038

Lior Lebovich, Tom Alisch, Edward S Redhead, Matthew O Parker, Yonatan Loewenstein, Iain D Couzin, Benjamin L de Bivort

{"title":"Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions in Drosophila melanogaster","authors":"Lior Lebovich, Tom Alisch, Edward S Redhead, Matthew O Parker, Yonatan Loewenstein, Iain D Couzin, Benjamin L de Bivort","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.04.611038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.04.611038","url":null,"abstract":"Decision-making in animals often involves choosing actions while navigating the environment, a process markedly different from static decision paradigms commonly studied in laboratory settings. Even in decision-making assays in which animals can freely locomote, decision outcomes are often interpreted as happening at single points in space and single moments in time, a simplification that potentially glosses over important spatiotemporal dynamics. We investigated locomotor decision-making in Drosophila melanogaster in Y-shaped mazes, measuring the extent to which their future choices could be predicted through space and time. We demonstrate that turn-decisions can be reliably predicted from flies' locomotor dynamics, with distinct predictability phases emerging as flies progress through maze regions. We show that these predictability dynamics are not merely the result of maze geometry or wall-following tendencies, but instead reflect the capacity of flies to move in ways that depend on sustained locomotor signatures, suggesting an active, working memory-like process. Additionally, we demonstrate that fly mutants known to have sensory and information-processing deficits exhibit altered spatial predictability patterns, highlighting the role of visual, mechanosensory, and dopaminergic signaling in locomotor decision-making. Finally, highlighting the broad applicability of our analyses, we generalize our findings to other species and tasks. We show that human participants in a virtual Y-maze exhibited similar decision predictability dynamics as flies. This study advances our understanding of decision-making processes, emphasizing the importance of spatial and temporal dynamics of locomotor behavior in the lead-up to discrete choice outcomes.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Facial and body colouration are linked to social rank in the African cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni 面部和身体颜色与非洲慈鲷的社会等级有关

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.21.608989

Matthew Peroš, Annaliese Chang, Anastasia Martashvili, Sebastian G. Alvarado

{"title":"Facial and body colouration are linked to social rank in the African cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni","authors":"Matthew Peroš, Annaliese Chang, Anastasia Martashvili, Sebastian G. Alvarado","doi":"10.1101/2024.08.21.608989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.21.608989","url":null,"abstract":"Animal colouration is fundamentally important for social communication within conspecifics to advertising threat to competitors or fitness to possible mates. Social status and animal colouration are covarying traits that are plastic in response to dynamic environments. In the African cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni, body colouration and behaviour have been extensively reported to vary with social rank. However, the nature of the interaction between these two traits is poorly understood. We hypothesise that pigmentation patterns could be linked to the behavioural repertoires underlying social status and can be resolved to regions on the cichlid body plan. To test this hypothesis, we generated Territorial (T) and Non-territorial (NT) males and employed computer vision tools to quantify and visualise patterns/colour enrichment associated with stereotyped T/NT male behaviour. We report colour-behaviour interactions localised in specific areas of the body and face for two colour morphs, illustrating a more nuanced view of social behaviour and pigmentation. Since behavioural and morphological variation are key drivers of selection in the East African Great Rift Lakes, we surmise our data may be translatable to other cichlid lineages and underline the importance of trait covariance in sexual selection and male competition.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"256 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sociability genetically separable from social hierarchy in amniotes 羊膜动物的社会性与社会等级在遗传上是可分离的

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.02.610763

Xin Lin, Guangyi Dai, Sumei Zhou, Yangyang Li, Yi-Hsuan Pan, Haipeng Li

{"title":"Sociability genetically separable from social hierarchy in amniotes","authors":"Xin Lin, Guangyi Dai, Sumei Zhou, Yangyang Li, Yi-Hsuan Pan, Haipeng Li","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.02.610763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.02.610763","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of social structure and organization is essential for the evolution of amniotes, including human beings. Sociability and social hierarchy are two key features to form a social group. However, it remains unknown whether sociability and social hierarchy are genetically separable. In this study, we examined the social hierarchy, social and social novelty preference of PAS1 (placental-accelerated sequence 1) knock-out and knock-in mice. PAS1 is a social enhancer that modulates social hierarchy. We found that PAS1 knock-out mice lack social hierarchy while wallaby/chicken PAS1 knock-in mice establish stable social ranks. Moreover, social and social novelty preference was observed in all PAS1-mutated mice. PAS1 knock-in mice have stronger preference to interact with other mice than wild-type mice (C57BL/6). No aggressive alteration was found in PAS1-mutated mice. Overall, our results showed that PAS1 is an indispensable regulatory element in the formation of social hierarchy while PAS1 regulates one of pathways modulating sociability. Therefore, sociability is genetically separable from social hierarchy in amniotes, providing insights into how social structure and organization evolved.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile 对人类栖息地的依赖是引进的掠食性爬行动物成功的关键

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.01.610713

Tom Major, Lauren Jeffrey, Guillem Limia Russel, Rebecca Bracegirdle, Antonio Gandini, Rhys Morgan, Benjamin Michael Marshall, John F Mulley, Wolfgang Wüster

{"title":"A reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile","authors":"Tom Major, Lauren Jeffrey, Guillem Limia Russel, Rebecca Bracegirdle, Antonio Gandini, Rhys Morgan, Benjamin Michael Marshall, John F Mulley, Wolfgang Wüster","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.01.610713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.01.610713","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the success of animals in novel environments is increasingly important as human-mediated introductions continue to move species far beyond their natural ranges. Alongside these introductions, inhabited and agricultural areas are spreading, and correspondingly most animal introductions occur in populated areas. Commensal species which can live alongside humans by making use of specific conditions, structures, or prey, have a significant advantage. Introduced mammal species often use anthropogenic features in their environment and demonstrate a higher tolerance of human disturbance, but their importance remains understudied in ectotherms. The Aesculapian snake (<em>Zamenis longissimus</em>) is an ectotherm which has been introduced beyond the northern extremities of its natural range. To understand their persistence, we radio-tracked snakes daily over two active seasons, including high-frequency tracking of a subset of males. We investigated snake home range size using Autocorrelated Kernel Density Estimators (AKDE). Using AKDE-weighted Habitat Selection Functions we identified preferences for habitat features in a mosaic of habitats, and we used Integrated Step Selection Functions to further explore how these features influence movement. We revealed a particular preference for buildings in male snakes, while females preferred woodland. We demonstrate that the success of this ectothermic predator is likely tied to a willingness to use human features of the landscape.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bumblebees locate goals in 3D with absolute height estimation from ventral optic flow 大黄蜂通过腹侧视流的绝对高度估计确定三维目标位置

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.02.610798

Annkathrin Sonntag, Martin Egelhaaf, Olivier J. N. Bertrand, Mathieu Lihoreau

{"title":"Bumblebees locate goals in 3D with absolute height estimation from ventral optic flow","authors":"Annkathrin Sonntag, Martin Egelhaaf, Olivier J. N. Bertrand, Mathieu Lihoreau","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.02.610798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.02.610798","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: When foraging, flying animals like bees are often required to change their flight altitude from close to the ground to above the height of the vegetation to reach their nest or a food source. While the mechanisms of navigating towards a goal in two dimensions are well understood, the explicit use of height as a source for navigation in three dimensions remains mostly unknown. Our study aims to unravel which strategies bumblebees use for height estimation and whether they rely on global or local cues.\u0000Methods: We expanded a 2D goal localisation paradigm, where a goal location is indicated by cylindrical landmarks, to the third dimension by using spherical landmarks to indicate a feeder's position in 3D and examined the search pattern of bumblebees. Additionally, we assessed the ability of bees to estimate the height of a feeder based on local landmarks and global references such as the ground floor.\u0000Results: The search distribution for a feeder's position in 3D was less spatially concentrated compared to in 2D. Assessing the bees' height estimation ability, we found that bees could estimate a feeder's height using the ground floor as a reference. However, the feeder needed to be sufficiently close to the ground floor for the bees to choose correctly.\u0000Discussion: When bumblebees are faced with the challenge of foraging in a 3D environment where the height of a food source and landmark cues are important, they demonstrate the ability to learn and return to a specific flower height. This suggests they rely on ventral optic flow for goal height estimation in bumblebees.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Short-term memory errors are strongly associated with a drift in neural activity in the posterior parietal cortex 短期记忆错误与后顶叶皮层神经活动的漂移密切相关

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.03.610917

Joon Ho Choi, Sungwon Bae, Jiho Park, Minsu Yoo, Chul Hoon Kim, Lukas Ian Schmitt, Ji-Woong Choi, Jong-Cheol Rah

{"title":"Short-term memory errors are strongly associated with a drift in neural activity in the posterior parietal cortex","authors":"Joon Ho Choi, Sungwon Bae, Jiho Park, Minsu Yoo, Chul Hoon Kim, Lukas Ian Schmitt, Ji-Woong Choi, Jong-Cheol Rah","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.03.610917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.03.610917","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the neural mechanisms behind short-term memory (STM) errors is crucial for unraveling cognitive processes and addressing related deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders. This study investigates whether STM errors result from misrepresentation of sensory information or a decay in these representations over time. Utilizing 2-photon calcium imaging in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) of mice engaged in a delayed match-to-sample task, we identified a subset of PPC neurons exhibiting both directional and temporal selectivity. Contrary to the idea that STM errors primarily stem from mis-encoding during the sample phase, our findings indicate that these errors are more closely associated with a drift in neural activity during the delay period. This drift results in a gradual shift away from the correct representation, ultimately leading to incorrect behavioral responses. These results emphasize the importance of maintaining stable neural representations in the PPC for accurate STM. Our findings also suggest that targeting PPC activity stabilization during delay periods could be a potential therapeutic strategy for mitigating cognitive impairments in disorders like schizophrenia.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inference in wolves and dogs: The "cups task", revisited 狼和狗的推理：杯子任务 "再探讨

bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.03.610928

Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Sophia D. Krause, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Friederike Range

{"title":"Inference in wolves and dogs: The \"cups task\", revisited","authors":"Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Sophia D. Krause, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Friederike Range","doi":"10.1101/2024.09.03.610928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.03.610928","url":null,"abstract":"Inferential reasoning —the process of arriving at a conclusion from a series of premises— has been studied in a multitude of animal species through the use of the \"cups task\" paradigm. In one of the versions of this set-up, two opaque cups —one baited, one empty— are shaken in front of the animal. As only the baited cup makes a noise when shaken, the animals can locate the reward by inferring that only a baited cup would make noise, that an empty cup would make no noise, or both. In a previous iteration of this paradigm in wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris), wolves seemed to outperform dogs. However, due to the lack of control conditions, it was not possible to assess each species' inference capabilities, nor how they related to each other. The current study adds several conditions in which the baited cup, the empty cup, or no cups are shaken, in order to tackle this issue. Our results seem to indicate that wolves and dogs made their choices not based on inference but on the saliency and order of the stimuli presented, something that seems in line with the previous study. We discuss the potential causes behind the animals' performance, as well as proposing alternative paradigms that may be more apt to measure inference abilities in wolves and dogs.","PeriodicalId":501210,"journal":{"name":"bioRxiv - Animal Behavior and Cognition","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142211754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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