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The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae). 罗氏沼虾（十足目，鲤科，对虾科）雌雄对虾的生殖决策中颜色和体型的重要性（de Man, 1879）。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105137

Felipe P da Costa, Maria F Arruda, Karina Ribeiro, Daniel M A Pessoa

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Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments 训练灵长类动物在虚拟3D环境中觅食。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105126

Emma Suvi McEwen , Matthias Allritz , Josep Call , Sarah E. Koopman , Emilie Rapport Munro , Cristóbal J. Bottero Cantuarias , Charles R. Menzel , Francine L. Dolins , Karline R.L. Janmaat , Kenneth Schweller

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Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year. 管理式护理中一年中虎鲸稳定种群活动预算的个体变化。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105135

Heather M Manitzas Hill, Manon Themelin, Kathleen M Dudzinski, Michael Felice, Todd Robeck

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Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants. 雏鸡根据不同时间常数的增益率做出随机决定。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105134

Yukiko Ogura, Ai Kawamori, Toshiya Matsushima

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Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future. 成本并不妨碍鸽子投资未来。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105125

Sarah Cowie, Michael Davison

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Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) 筑巢彩鹳（Mycteria leucocephala）体温调节行为的性别差异、昼夜变化和季节变化趋势

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105115

Paritosh Ahmed, Abdul Jamil Urfi

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Experimental evidence of aposematic signal in black tadpoles 黑色蝌蚪呼吸信号的实验证据

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105124

Julia Laura Pompeu de Abreu, Vinícius de Avelar São-Pedro

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Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls 雌性路易斯大鼠对 31 千赫超声波呼叫的行为反应

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105111

Shota Okabe , Yuki Takayanagi , Ryosuke O. Tachibana , Ayumu Inutsuka , Masahide Yoshida , Tatsushi Onaka

{"title":"Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls","authors":"Shota Okabe , Yuki Takayanagi , Ryosuke O. Tachibana , Ayumu Inutsuka , Masahide Yoshida , Tatsushi Onaka","doi":"10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rodent ultrasonic vocalisations can be used to assess social behaviour and have attracted increasing attention. Rats emit 50-kHz and 22-kHz calls during appetitive and aversive states, respectively. These calls induce behavioural and neural responses in the receiver by transmitting the internal states of the rats, thus serving communicative functions. Recently, we discovered that female Lewis rats emit 31-kHz calls under social isolation and inequality conditions; however, the biological significance of 31-kHz calls remains unknown. In the present study, we conducted three playback experiments to examine the behavioural effects of 31-kHz calls. In the first experiment, Lewis female rats were exposed to four types of sound: 22-kHz, 50-kHz, 31-kHz calls, and environmental noise. As a result, rats stayed significantly longer in the area with a sound-producing speaker, regardless of the sound type, than in the silent speaker area. The duration spent around the sound-producing speaker was particularly extended during the 50-kHz or 31-kHz call playback, compared to the environmental noise or 22-kHz call playback. In the second experiment, rats were exposed to refined versions of sound stimuli that were synthesised to preserve prominent frequency components while removing background noise from original calls. Rats significantly preferred to stay around the speaker for the synthesised 50-kHz and 31-kHz sounds, but not for the synthesised 22-kHz sound. However, in the third experiment, additional 31-kHz sound synthesised from calls emitted by a different rat did not elicit a significant preference for the source side. These results suggest that the rats paid attention to the 31-kHz call, although it is plausible that acoustic variability in the 31-kHz USV may affect their approach behaviour.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8746,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural Processes","volume":"223 ","pages":"Article 105111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142340283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Amphipods (Gammarus pseudolimnaeus) do not demonstrate a left-right preference in a 3-D printed aquatic T-maze 在 3-D 打印的水生 T 型迷宫中，片脚类动物（假鳃螈）没有表现出左右偏好。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105123

Joshua E. Wolf, Melissa Larsen

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Individual consistency of hissing displays across night and day in a free-living female songbird 自由生活的雌性鸣鸟嘶鸣表演的昼夜个体一致性。

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Behavioural Processes Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105113

Bert Thys , Rianne Pinxten , Marcel Eens

{"title":"Individual consistency of hissing displays across night and day in a free-living female songbird","authors":"Bert Thys , Rianne Pinxten , Marcel Eens","doi":"10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Birds have evolved a variety of antipredator strategies, which have been extensively studied during day-time. Yet, how diurnal birds directly respond to nocturnal predation threats remains largely elusive, despite that predation risk can be high during both night- and day-time. One form of antipredator behaviour found in several tit species when confronted with a predator at the nest is the hissing display. As for many forms of antipredator behaviour, studies on hissing displays have so far focussed on the day-time. Here, we exposed cavity-nesting free-living female great tits (<em>Parus major</em>) to simulated predator intrusions inside their nest box during both night- and day-time. We showed that 28 % of females uttered at least one hissing call during night-time, while the occurrence of hissing calls was higher during day-time (84 %). Hissing females at night, compared to non-hissing females, produced more hissing calls during day-time, providing evidence for individual cross-context consistency. Night-time hissing behaviour did not predict lay date, clutch size, breeding or nest success, indicating the absence of consequences in terms of current reproduction. Together, we reveal the hitherto undescribed occurrence of hissing displays at night in a cavity-nesting bird, while simultaneously strengthening the evidence for the existence of hissing behavioural types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8746,"journal":{"name":"Behavioural Processes","volume":"222 ","pages":"Article 105113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142493875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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