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The importance of understanding the ethology and ecology of the zebrafish, and of other fish species, in experimental research. 在实验研究中，了解斑马鱼和其他鱼类的行为学和生态学的重要性。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00257-3

Robert Gerlai

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Understanding stress-induced illegitimate aggression: the role of physiological and psychological factors in police cadets. 了解压力诱发的非法攻击：生理和心理因素在警察学员中的作用。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00265-3

József Haller, István Farkas, József Végh, Zsombor Hermann, Krisztián Ivaskevics, Johanna Farkas, Erika Malét Szabó, Ildikó Bock-Marquette, Szilárd Rendeki

{"title":"Understanding stress-induced illegitimate aggression: the role of physiological and psychological factors in police cadets.","authors":"József Haller, István Farkas, József Végh, Zsombor Hermann, Krisztián Ivaskevics, Johanna Farkas, Erika Malét Szabó, Ildikó Bock-Marquette, Szilárd Rendeki","doi":"10.1007/s42977-025-00265-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42977-025-00265-3","url":null,"abstract":"To better understand the consequences of stress in realistic scenarios, police cadets were tasked with performing a police intervention under differing expectations. One group was led to anticipate a dangerous mission, while the other expected a routine event. In the field, however, both groups faced the same challenging situation. The warned group exhibited strong pre-intervention stress responses, which was minimal in the other group. By contrast, the unwarned group experienced a sudden surge in stress within the first minute of the intervention, as reality clashed with their expectations. A similar sudden stress response by the beginning of the intervention was missing from the warned group. A significant portion of cadets unlawfully attacked suspects, a behavior linked to intense stress displayed at the onset of the intervention. This emotional, illegitimate aggression was driven primarily by the noradrenergic stress response, with no indication of cortisol involvement. Traditional statistical methods (group comparisons, univariate, and multivariate regressions) suggested that psychological traits had little impact compared to acute stress effects. However, machine learning revealed that psychological characteristics-such as those assessed by the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire, Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, Big Five Personality Test, and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-played a crucial role in conjunction with stress responses. Multivariate analyses yielded data similar to those obtained through machine learning, but only when the dependent variables were selected to match those identified as crucial by the latter. These findings highlight the power of machine learning in uncovering complex interactions that traditional methods might overlook.","PeriodicalId":8853,"journal":{"name":"Biologia futura","volume":" ","pages":"135-150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144332410","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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After all, how valuable is the dog model for examining human socio-cognitive abilities? 毕竟，狗模型在检验人类社会认知能力方面有多大价值？

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-29 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00273-3

Márta Gácsi

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Exploring social behaviour using Tinbergen's 4 Questions. 使用Tinbergen的4个问题探索社会行为。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00274-2

Tamás Székely

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Does a "robot dog" need legs, ears, and tail? A comparative analysis of intention- and emotion-attribution to Miro-E and Unitree Go1. “机器狗”需要腿、耳朵和尾巴吗？micro - e和Unitree go意向归因和情绪归因的比较分析

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00263-5

Gabriella Lakatos, Patrick Holthaus, Pranjal Sharma, Vignesh Velmurugan, Theodora Hamilton-Holbrook, Lewis Riches, Sílvia Moros, Luke Wood

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Let's talk about "talking" dogs! Reviewing the science behind a bold idea. 我们来谈谈会说话的狗吧！回顾一个大胆想法背后的科学。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00276-0

Rita Lenkei, Paula Pérez Fraga, László Róbert Zsiros, Balázs Szigeti, Tamás Faragó

{"title":"Let's talk about \"talking\" dogs! Reviewing the science behind a bold idea.","authors":"Rita Lenkei, Paula Pérez Fraga, László Róbert Zsiros, Balázs Szigeti, Tamás Faragó","doi":"10.1007/s42977-025-00276-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42977-025-00276-0","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of a \"talking\" dog has long fascinated humans, as presented throughout history in pieces of folklore, literature, and other fields of culture. While speech, as we know, is a uniquely human trait, the evolution of dogs in close proximity to humans has allowed them to develop strategies that facilitate heterospecific communication with us. In this work, we explore the scientific plausibility of enhancing canine vocalisation towards speech-like communication, as Csányi (Bukfenc és Jeromos: hogyan gondolkodnak a kutyák? Vince K, 2001) suggested. Our approach involves a comprehensive overview of the anatomical, cognitive, and evolutionary features of dogs that may relate to speech, as well as describing their role in popular culture and examining novel technological aspects. We also provide an outlook on hypothetical possibilities of a \"talking\" dog and its possible implications. We conclude that while dogs have acquired remarkable human-directed social and communicative skills, the feasibility and desirability of spoken language in dogs remain questionable. Instead, understanding canine vocal and non-vocal communication within the context of human-animal interaction provides valuable insights into both language evolution and the mechanisms underpinning interspecies cooperation, also providing practical tools for the novel field of ethorobotics.","PeriodicalId":8853,"journal":{"name":"Biologia futura","volume":" ","pages":"273-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12367964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144727172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From kin to canines: understanding modern dog keeping from both biological and cultural evolutionary perspectives. 从亲属到犬类：从生物学和文化进化的角度理解现代养狗。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00264-4

Eniko Kubinyi, Borbála Turcsán

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Dogs as a model to study the emergence of concept manipulation skills for language-readiness. 以狗为模型研究概念操纵技能对语言准备的影响。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00267-1

Dorottya S Rácz, Marianna Boros, Attila Andics

{"title":"Dogs as a model to study the emergence of concept manipulation skills for language-readiness.","authors":"Dorottya S Rácz, Marianna Boros, Attila Andics","doi":"10.1007/s42977-025-00267-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42977-025-00267-1","url":null,"abstract":"Language-readiness entails the ability to segment holistic events into discrete concepts, learn signals for such concepts, and combine them in a rule-based manner to create composite meanings. There is much debate about whether, and to what extent, the brain mechanisms that enable concept manipulation abilities in humans are unmatched in the animal kingdom. Challenging human-uniqueness theories, we propose a social cognition-mediation account hypothesizing that concept manipulation abilities essential for language-readiness could also emerge in other species with a sufficient level of certain prerequisite social-cognitive skills, namely goal-representation, intentionality-attribution, and mentalization. We argue for the involvement of a new species in comparative studies on language evolution to evaluate this hypothesis: the domestic dog, a species that has undergone selective pressures for prosociality during domestication similar to those experienced by early humans, as well as shows a natural propensity to communicate their experiences. As a consequence, dogs may possess the necessary social-cognitive capacities to develop concept manipulation skills. Dogs' concept manipulation abilities have never been systematically investigated, nor directly compared to those of humans. Capitalizing on recent advances in comparative non-invasive neuroimaging and behavioural measures, here we propose feasible, promising experimental approaches for such investigations.","PeriodicalId":8853,"journal":{"name":"Biologia futura","volume":" ","pages":"259-271"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12367953/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144493974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social learning in dogs from an ecologically valid perspective. 从生态学角度看狗的社会学习。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-025-00271-5

Péter Pongrácz, Petra Dobos

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Extracellular lipase production from Bacillus cereus by using agro-industrial waste. 利用农业工业废弃物从蜡样芽孢杆菌中生产胞外脂肪酶。

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Biologia futura Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1007/s42977-024-00246-y

Haniya Mazhar, Ali Afzal, Hanan Afzal, Amara Noureen, Muhammad Mubashir Iqbal Ahmad, Suneela Amaan, Naaz Abbas, Hongxin Zhu, Muhammad Babar Khawar

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