Behavior is a unifying organismal process where genes, neural function, anatomy and
environment converge and interrelate. Here we review the current state and discuss the …

Animal behavior spans many timescales, from short, seconds-scale actions to circadian
rhythms over many hours to life-long changes during aging. Most quantitative behavior …

When encountering novel environments, animals perform complex yet structured exploratory
behaviors. Despite their typical structuring, the principles underlying exploratory patterns are …

Novel stimuli elicit behaviors that are collectively known as specific exploration. These
behaviors allow the animal to become more familiar with the novel objects within its …

Drosophila adults display an unwillingness to enter confined spaces but the behaviors
induced by spatial restriction in Drosophila are largely unknown. We developed a protocol …

The importance of landscape connectivity in determining biodiversity outcomes under
environmental change has led to indices of connectivity becoming amongst the most widely …

Habituation is a common form of non-associative learning in which the organism gradually
decreases its response to repeated stimuli. The decrease in exploratory activity of many …

This study employs supervised machine learning algorithms to test whether locomotive
features during exploratory activity in open field arenas can serve as predictors for the …

We describe persistent one-way walking of Drosophila melanogaster in a circular arena.
Wild-type Canton-S adult flies walked in one direction, counter-clockwise or clockwise, for …

Collective motion has traditionally been studied in the lab in homogeneous, obstacle-free
environments, with little work having been conducted with changing landscapes or …