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    Collective animal behaviour is a form of social behavior involving the coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals as well as emergent properties...
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    species other than birds, to mean collective motion by a group of self-propelled entities, a collective animal behaviour exhibited by many living beings...
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    in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment...
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    Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps...
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    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...
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  • Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Statistically, abnormal is when the occurrence, frequency or intensity of a behaviour varies...
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  • The term behavioural synchrony refers to the ability of a group of agents to coordinate collective action efficiently, a concept originally introduced...
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    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...
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  • Vigilance, in the field of behavioural ecology, refers to an animal's monitoring of its surroundings in order to heighten awareness of predator presence...
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  • social animals like birds and fish, and insects including ants. Collective behavior takes many forms but generally violates societal norms. Collective behavior...
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  • 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...
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    Most abnormal behaviours can be categorised collectively (e.g., eliminative, ingestive, stereotypies), however, many abnormal behaviours fall debatably...
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    flowers. Other animals may have very specific feeding behaviours, such as hawksbill sea turtles which mainly eat sponges. Most animals rely on biomass...
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    Personality in animals has been investigated across a variety of different scientific fields including agricultural science, animal behaviour, anthropology...
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  • Collective effervescence (CE) is a sociological concept coined by Émile Durkheim. According to Durkheim, a community or society may at times come together...
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  • 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...
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    coordinated behaviour of both sender and receiver require careful study. The sounds animals make are important because they communicate the animals' state...
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  • Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Collective Behaviour and the chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz...
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    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...
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  • apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour. It was first used to describe situations in which an animal or person learns the characteristics of...
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    of Schreckstoff on the shoaling behaviour of the minnow: a test of Hamilton's selfish herd theory". Animal Behaviour. 45 (5): 1019–1024. doi:10.1006/anbe...
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    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...
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    the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviours, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship...
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    skills, abilities, and knowledge). A dominant animal is one whose sexual, feeding, aggressive, and other behaviour patterns subsequently occur with relatively...
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  • cells Ethology - study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive...
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    Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon non-human animals, either...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • primatologists' discoveries of socially-transmitted food behaviours in the 1940s. Evidence for animal culture is often based on studies of feeding behaviors...
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    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...
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