Animal behavior research is particularly relevant ... Learned behaviors are acquired by social learning, often by watching and imitating adult members of their species. Through natural selection ...

Social behavior consists of a set of interactions among individuals of the same species. A wide range of sociality occurs among animals. Some animals rarely if ever interact with one another, even ...

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have introduced the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer ...

Studying the social behavior of animals in their natural environments is necessary for advancing our understanding of neurological processes. To achieve this, tracking multiple individuals ...

professor in the Department of Biology teaches courses on introductory biology and animal behavior research interests include animal social behavior and animal sociality (how and why animals live in ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models ...

The evolutionary roots of human dominance and aggression remain central to social and political behaviour, and without conscious intervention these primal survival drives will continue to fuel ...

Steroid hormones are usually assumed to be long term modulators of behavior. Recent discoveries show that steroids can act rapidly, dynamically regulating stress responses and social behaviors.

Social monkeys learn more slowly ... Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 38, 331-345.

Our students interact with these animals under the close supervision of faculty, who observe the animals' behavior to study ecology, social behavior, plant and animal interaction, behavioral ...