[图书][B] Collective animal behavior

DJT Sumpter - 2010 - degruyter.com
Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

[图书][B] Mountain goats: ecology, behavior, and conservation of an alpine ungulate

M Festa-Bianchet, SD Côté - 2012 - books.google.com
Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving
wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation …

Association patterns of African elephants in all-male groups: the role of age and genetic relatedness

PI Chiyo, EA Archie, JA Hollister-Smith, PC Lee… - Animal Behaviour, 2011 - Elsevier
Strong social bonds are uncommon among male mammals. In many mammals, however,
males form all-male groups, providing opportunities for male–male bonds to emerge. We …

Cooperative partner choice in multi-level male dolphin alliances

L Gerber, S Wittwer, SJ Allen, KG Holmes, SL King… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Investigations into cooperative partner choice should consider both potential and realised
partners, allowing for the comparison of traits across all those available. Male bottlenose …

How has the risk of predation shaped the behavioural responses of sheep to fear and distress?

CM Dwyer - Animal Welfare, 2004 - cambridge.org
To use behaviours as indicators of stress it is important to understand their underlying
causation. For a prey animal in the wild, such as a sheep, behavioural responses have …

Forecasting the response to global warming in a heat-sensitive species

F Brivio, M Zurmühl, S Grignolio, J von Hardenberg… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Avoiding hyperthermia entails considerable metabolic costs for endotherms. Such costs
increase in warm conditions, when endotherms may trade food intake for cooler areas to …

Evidence for gregarious behavior and age segregation in sauropod dinosaurs

TS Myers, AR Fiorillo - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Both body fossil and ichnofossil evidence for gregarious behavior in sauropod dinosaurs is
examined. Some localities suggest that herds were partitioned on the basis of age, whereas …

Bite rates in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis): effects of season, age, sex and reproductive status

KE Ruckstuhl, M Festa-Bianchet… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2003 - Springer
We investigated the effects of vegetation biomass, crude protein content of consumed
forage, age, sex and reproductive status on bite rates in Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. We …

Movements and distribution of northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus, on the Scotian Slope and in adjacent waters

T Wimmer, H Whitehead - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
A small, apparently isolated, and endangered population of~ 130 northern bottlenose
whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus Forster, 1770) is found on the Scotian Slope south of Nova …

Predation risk as a factor affecting sexual segregation in Alpine ibex

S Grignolio, I Rossi, B Bassano… - Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) are polygynous ungulates that exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism
and segregation. To test the hypothesis that risk of predation plays a key role in the …