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<span>BORIS</span>: a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations Open
Summary Quantitative aspects of the study of animal and human behaviour are increasingly relevant to test hypotheses and find empirical support for them. At the same time, photo and video cameras can store a large number of video recording…
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Ethological observations of social behavior in the operating room Open
Significance Hierarchy and gender composition affect the balance of cooperation and conflict on surgical teams. In this investigation, behavior was quantified with methods traditionally used to study nonhuman primate groups. Observers used…
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Equine Discomfort Ethogram Open
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in and need for a comprehensive ethogram of discomfort behavior of horses, particularly for use in recognizing physical discomfort in domestically managed horses. A clear understanding of …
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An ethogram of biter and bitten pigs during an ear biting event: first step in the development of a Precision Livestock Farming tool Open
© 2019 The Authors Pigs reared in intensive farming systems are more likely to develop damaging behaviours such as tail and ear biting (EB)due to their difficulty in coping with the environment and their inability to perform natural behavi…
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Zebrafish Adjust Their Behavior in Response to an Interactive Robotic Predator Open
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) constitutes a valuable experimental species for the study of the biological determinants of emotional responses, such as fear and anxiety. Fear-related test paradigms traditionally entail the interaction between foc…
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Effectiveness of dog collars impregnated with 4% deltamethrin in controlling visceral leishmaniasis in Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidade: Phlebotominae) populations Open
We observed a lower vector abundance in the intervention areas, suggesting an effect of the insecticide-impregnated collars.
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Scent marking in Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi): novel observations close a key gap in understanding felid communication behaviours Open
Intraspecific communication is integral to the behavioural ecology of solitary carnivores, but observing and quantifying their communication behaviours in natural environments is difficult. Our systematic literature review found that basic…
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Quick, Accurate, Smart: 3D Computer Vision Technology Helps Assessing Confined Animals’ Behaviour Open
Mankind directly controls the environment and lifestyles of several domestic species for purposes ranging from production and research to conservation and companionship. These environments and lifestyles may not offer these animals the bes…
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Engagement in elderly persons with dementia attending animal-assisted group activity Open
The need for meaningful activities that enhance engagement is very important among persons with dementia (PWDs), both for PWDs still living at home, as well as for PWDs admitted to a nursing home (NH). In this study, we systematically regi…
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Automated pose estimation in primates Open
Understanding the behavior of primates is important for primatology, for psychology, and for biology more broadly. It is also important for biomedicine, where primates are an important model organism, and whose behavior is often an importa…
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Differences in Anticipatory Behaviour between Rats (Rattus norvegicus) Housed in Standard versus Semi-Naturalistic Laboratory Environments Open
Laboratory rats are usually kept in relatively small cages, but research has shown that they prefer larger and more complex environments. The physiological, neurological and health effects of standard laboratory housing are well establishe…
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Evaluation of Pain Assessment Techniques and Analgesia Efficacy in a Female Guinea Pig (<i>Cavia porcellus</i>) Model of Surgical Pain. Open
Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are a frequently used species in research, often involving potentially painful procedures. Therefore, evidence-based recommendations regarding analgesia are critically needed to optimize their wellbeing. Our l…
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Why preen others? Predictors of allopreening in parrots and corvids and comparisons to grooming in great apes Open
Allogrooming in primates serves not only a hygienic function, but also plays a crucial role in maintaining strong affiliative bonds between group members, which in turn, underpin the emergence of cooperative behavior. In contrast, although…
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Lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) failed to respond to others’ yawn: Experimental and naturalistic evidence. Open
Yawn contagion, possibly a form of emotional contagion, occurs when a subject yawns in response to others' yawns. Yawn contagion has been reported in humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, geladas, wolves, and dogs. In these species, individuals fo…
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The quest to develop automated systems for monitoring animal behavior Open
Automated behavior analysis (ABA) strategies are being researched at a rapid rate to detect an array of behaviors across a range of species. There is growing optimism that soon ethologists will not have to manually decode hours (and hours)…
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Application of a Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram and Its Relationship with Gait in a Convenience Sample of 60 Riding Horses Open
A Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) comprising 24 behaviours has been developed to facilitate the identification of musculoskeletal pain. The aim was to further test the RHpE by its application to a convenience sample (n = 60) of sports ho…
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Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Data in the Study of Feeding Behavior in Male Wistar Rats Open
The first step in a behavioral study is represented by the organization of a suitable ethogram, that is, a formal description of individual components of the behavior. Then, each component of such a behavioral repertoire can be quantified …
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Precise Quantification of Behavioral Individuality From 80 Million Decisions Across 183,000 Flies Open
Individual animals behave differently from each other. This variability is a component of personality and arises even when genetics and environment are held constant. Discovering the biological mechanisms underlying behavioral variability …
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Seasonal Variation of Captive Meagre Acoustic Signalling: A Manual and Automatic Recognition Approach Open
Many species rely on acoustic communication to fulfil several functions such as advertisement and mediation of social interactions (e.g., agonistic, mating). Therefore, fish calls can be an important source of information, e.g., to recogni…
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The effect of human interaction on guinea pig behavior in animal-assisted therapy Open
Guinea pigs are included in various animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), but no research has been published to date on behavioral changes in guinea pigs interacting with humans. The goal of this study was to evaluate the behavior in guine…
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An Ethogram to Quantify Operating Room Behavior Open
The method we propose has potential for social research conducted in healthcare settings as complex as the OR.
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Comparing the Rat Grimace Scale and a composite behaviour score in rats Open
There is a growing interest in the use of voluntarily displayed ongoing behaviours in laboratory animals to assess the pain experience. In rats, two behavioural pain scales, the Rat Grimace Scale (RGS, a facial expression scale) and a comp…
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Does Feeding Management Make a Difference to Behavioural Activities and Welfare of Horses Reared for Meat Production? Open
Horses reared for meat production are generally fed a diet rich in starch with the aim of maximizing production performances. This study evaluated the effects of two feeding management systems on horse welfare by analysing the relative tim…
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Bold personality makes domestic dogs entering a shelter less vulnerable to diseases Open
It is widely recognised that for vertebrate species, personalities vary along an axis with extremes represented by 'proactive' and 'reactive' individuals. The aim of this study was to verify whether there is a relationship between personal…
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<i>Ethology</i> adopts the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research, to improve reporting standards Open
Following a consultation process, the editors of Ethology have decided to adopt the STRANGE framework for animal behaviour research (Webster & Rutz, 2020). It seems fitting that the world's oldest behavioural biology journal (founded in 19…
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Public Feeding Interactions as Enrichment for Three Zoo-Housed Elephants Open
The past few decades have seen increased interest in studies examining the welfare of elephants and animal–visitor interactions. One understudied area for both pursuits is the impact of public feeding interactions. Our study examined the e…
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The syntactic organization of pasta-eating and the structure of reach movements in the head-fixed mouse Open
Mice are adept in the use of their hands for activities such as feeding, which has led to their use in investigations of the neural basis of skilled-movements. We describe the syntactic organization of pasta-eating and the structure of han…
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DeepEthogram: a machine learning pipeline for supervised behavior classification from raw pixels Open
Researchers commonly acquire videos of animal behavior and quantify the prevalence of behaviors of interest to study nervous system function, the effects of gene mutations, and the efficacy of pharmacological therapies. This analysis is ty…
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Application of the Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram to Elite Dressage Horses Competing in World Cup Grand Prix Competitions Open
There is considerable debate about the social license to compete with horses and controversy about training methods for dressage horses. The objectives were to: 1. apply the Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) to dressage horses competing at…
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Communication stations: cameras reveal river otter (Lontra canadensis) behavior and activity patterns at latrines Open
Little is known about the behaviors river otters (Lontra canadensis) commonly exhibit when visiting latrine sites. By use of video data we constructed an ethogram to describe and quantify latrine behaviors. The most common behaviors were s…