Flocking (redirect from Flocking (behaviour)) species other than birds, to mean collective motion by a group of self-propelled entities, a collective animal behaviour exhibited by many living beings... 16 KB (1,805 words) - 12:42, 22 March 2024 |
Sociality (redirect from Social behaviour in animals) in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment... 29 KB (3,103 words) - 13:13, 17 April 2024 |
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps... 113 KB (12,846 words) - 09:51, 3 May 2024 |
groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published... 80 KB (3,213 words) - 02:00, 10 May 2024 |
Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Statistically, abnormal is when the occurrence, frequency or intensity of a behaviour varies... 22 KB (2,183 words) - 20:51, 14 February 2024 |
The term behavioural synchrony refers to the ability of a group of agents to coordinate collective action efficiently, a concept originally introduced... 7 KB (815 words) - 05:48, 8 October 2022 |
Herd (redirect from Herd animal) certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding. These animals are... 18 KB (2,296 words) - 04:44, 19 January 2024 |
Vigilance, in the field of behavioural ecology, refers to an animal's monitoring of its surroundings in order to heighten awareness of predator presence... 22 KB (3,057 words) - 10:12, 31 July 2023 |
social animals like birds and fish, and insects including ants. Collective behavior takes many forms but generally violates societal norms. Collective behavior... 22 KB (2,706 words) - 21:49, 14 March 2024 |
University of Bristol in 2001. He is renowned for his studies of collective animal behaviour, particularly of ant colonies. His Ant Lab at Bristol pioneered... 5 KB (586 words) - 07:48, 17 April 2022 |
Most abnormal behaviours can be categorised collectively (e.g., eliminative, ingestive, stereotypies), however, many abnormal behaviours fall debatably... 21 KB (2,604 words) - 20:27, 4 April 2024 |
flowers. Other animals may have very specific feeding behaviours, such as hawksbill sea turtles which mainly eat sponges. Most animals rely on biomass... 125 KB (11,167 words) - 00:45, 13 May 2024 |
Collective effervescence (CE) is a sociological concept coined by Émile Durkheim. According to Durkheim, a community or society may at times come together... 4 KB (501 words) - 17:24, 23 October 2023 |
Herd behavior (redirect from Herd behaviour) behavior of individuals in a group acting collectively without centralized direction. Herd behavior occurs in animals in herds, packs, bird flocks, fish schools... 34 KB (4,351 words) - 20:52, 17 April 2024 |
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour and the chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz... 4 KB (367 words) - 05:39, 22 November 2023 |
Cooperation (redirect from Cooperative behaviour) together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit. In biology, many animal and plant species... 22 KB (2,669 words) - 02:32, 3 April 2024 |
Imprinting (psychology) (redirect from Behavioural imprinting) apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour. It was first used to describe situations in which an animal or person learns the characteristics of... 18 KB (2,273 words) - 07:55, 2 May 2024 |
Elephant (redirect from Elephant behaviour) "concern"; however, the Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour (1987) said that "one is well advised to study the behaviour rather than attempting to get at any... 131 KB (14,376 words) - 04:07, 13 May 2024 |
Chacma baboon (section Behaviour) the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviours, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship... 33 KB (3,999 words) - 14:01, 23 February 2024 |
Dominance hierarchy (redirect from Alpha animal) skills, abilities, and knowledge). A dominant animal is one whose sexual, feeding, aggressive, and other behaviour patterns subsequently occur with relatively... 77 KB (9,437 words) - 03:32, 12 April 2024 |
Outline of zoology (redirect from List of basic animal topics) cells Ethology - study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive... 12 KB (1,020 words) - 09:18, 7 February 2024 |
Iztok; Heppner, Frank H. (2009). "Organized flight in birds" (PDF). Animal Behaviour. 78 (4): 777–789. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.007. S2CID 53180059... 10 KB (1,124 words) - 06:07, 12 January 2024 |
Meerkat (section Ecology and behaviour) Russell, A. F.; Sharpe, L. L. (2004). "Behavioural tactics of breeders in cooperative meerkats". Animal Behaviour. 68 (5): 1029–1040. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav... 55 KB (6,385 words) - 02:20, 17 March 2024 |
primatologists' discoveries of socially-transmitted food behaviours in the 1940s. Evidence for animal culture is often based on studies of feeding behaviors... 92 KB (11,312 words) - 21:57, 16 January 2024 |
Foie gras (category Cruelty to animals) even the collective cages and pens currently in use in Europe do not offer enough space to the birds for them to express their natural behaviour. During... 82 KB (9,398 words) - 06:07, 27 April 2024 |