Preparing for life after birth: introducing the concepts of intrauterine and extrauterine sensory entrainment in mammalian young

DJ Mellor - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A key event in the life of a mammalian fetus is its birth, especially in view of
the exceptional change in its environment that occurs at birth. An area of great interest is the …

Incubation temperature influences the behavioral traits of a young precocial bird

SF Hope, RA Kennamer, IT Moore… - … zoology part A …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The environment in which animals develop can have important consequences for their
phenotype. In reptiles, incubation temperature is a critical aspect of the early developmental …

Animal-to-robot social attachment: initial requisites in a gallinaceous bird

L Jolly, F Pittet, JP Caudal, JB Mouret… - Bioinspiration & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Animal–Robot Interaction experiments have demonstrated their usefulness to
understand the social behaviour of a growing number of animal species. In order to study …

[HTML][HTML] Vocal recognition of distance calls in a group-living basal bird: the greylag goose, Anser anser

M Guggenberger, NM Adreani, K Foerster… - Animal Behaviour, 2022 - Elsevier
Vocal communication in group-living animals represents a major challenge when multiple
individuals call simultaneously and generate a complex soundscape. Decoding relevant …

Motherless quail mothers display impaired maternal behavior and produce more fearful and less socially motivated offspring

F Pittet, O Le Bot, C Houdelier… - Developmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Early maternal deprivation impairs the behavioral development of young individuals.
Recently, strong differences between mothered and maternally deprived chicks have been …

Maternal styles in a precocial bird

F Pittet, C Houdelier, E De Margerie, O Le Bot… - Animal Behaviour, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•We investigated the existence of maternal styles in Japanese quail.•We analysed
the relations between these styles and temperaments of mothers and chicks.•We …

Peregrine falcons shift mean and variance in provisioning in response to increasing brood demand

RA McKinnon, K Hawkshaw, E Hedlin… - Behavioral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The hierarchical model of provisioning posits that parents employ a strategic, sequential use
of three provisioning tactics as offspring demand increases (eg, due to increasing brood size …

Effects of Parental Experience and Age on Expression of Prolactin, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide and their Receptors in a Biparental Bird (Columba livia)

VS Farrar, AV Ramirez, RM Calisi - Integrative and Comparative …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As animals gain parental experience, they often show more rapid and efficient parental care
responses that likely improve offspring survival and fitness. Changes in circulating …

Effects of maternal experience on fearfulness and maternal behaviour in a precocial bird

F Pittet, M Coignard, C Houdelier, MA Richard-Yris… - Animal Behaviour, 2013 - Elsevier
Brood care can improve with experience, and experience under natural conditions
increases with age. We aimed to evaluate the relative effect of experience by comparing …

Experience counts: The role of female age in morning incubation and brooding behavior in relation to temperature

K Williams, M Sudnick, R Anderson… - Journal of Avian …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reproductive experience can impact how individuals allocate time and energy to
reproduction and generate differences in reproductive behavior that leads to experience …