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Sexual behavior of non-human animals
Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species. Common mating or reproductively motivated systems include monogamy
Animal_sexual_behaviour
Animal behaviour is the individual or social behaviour of animals, contributing to their survival. It is studied by the science of ethology. Behaviour
Animal_behaviour
Area a wild animal consistently defends
an animal to survive and raise young. The proximate functions of territory defense vary. For some animals, the reason for such protective behaviour is
Territory_(animal)
Non-reproductive sexual behavior in non-human animals
same-sex sexual behaviour was not scientifically reported on a large scale until recent times. Homosexual behaviour does occur in the animal kingdom outside
Non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals
Non-reproductive_sexual_behavior_in_animals
Academic journal
Animal Behaviour is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1953 as The British Journal of Animal Behaviour, before obtaining its
Animal_Behaviour_(journal)
Animal behavior to maintain health and comfort
preparation for nursing. Allogrooming is grooming behaviour performed by one animal on another. This behaviour could include licking, rubbing or preening. Allogrooming
Comfort_behaviour_in_animals
Voluntary, intrinsically motivated recreation
Kaarle; MaBouDi, HaDi; Chittka, Lars (2022). "Do bumble bees play?". Animal Behaviour. 194: 239–251. Bibcode:2022AnBeh.194..239G. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2022
Play_(activity)
Attack on a predator by prey species
Animal Behaviour. 170: 229–233. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.10.013. S2CID 227063061. Dutour, M.; Lena, J.-P.; Lengagne, T. (2017). "Mobbing behaviour in
Mobbing_(animal_behavior)
Any social behaviour related to fighting
Fighting in Mice and Rats" in Physiological Zoology. Agonistic behaviour is seen in many animal species because resources including food, shelter, and mates
Agonistic_behaviour
Topics referred to by the same term
Behaviour (journal), a scientific journal "Animal Behavior", a 1992 song from the album Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) by Praxis Animal Behaviour (film)
Animal behaviour (disambiguation)
Animal_behaviour_(disambiguation)
Study of animal behaviour
Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals. It has its scientific roots in the work of Charles Darwin and of American
Ethology
spontaneously occurring same-sex behavior in animals outside of the laboratory. Homosexual behaviour in animals has been discussed since classical antiquity
Homosexual behavior in animals
Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
Animal behavior primarily characterized by activity during the twilight
fact crepuscular. Special classes of crepuscular behaviour include matutinal, or "matinal", animals active only in the dawn, and vespertine, only in the dusk
Crepuscular_animal
2018 Canadian film
Animal Behaviour (also released in French as Zoothérapie) is a Canadian animated short film directed by Alison Snowden and David Fine, which was released
Animal_Behaviour_(film)
Wolf Homosexual behaviour is demonstrated by 120 known species of birds. While an uptick in research on bird homosexuality – and animal homosexuality in
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior
List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Statistically, abnormal is when the occurrence, frequency or intensity of a behaviour varies
List of abnormal behaviours in animals
List_of_abnormal_behaviours_in_animals
Form of collective animal behaviour
wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour demonstrates the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental
Sociality
Branch of scientific study
of abnormal behaviors in animals Owen, J. B., Treasure, J.L. & Collier, D.A. 2001. Animal Models- Disorders of Eating Behaviour and Body Composition. Kluwer
Animal_psychopathology
Biological kingdom
webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology, and the study of animal behaviour is known as ethology. The animal kingdom is divided into five
Animal
Internally coordinated responses of dogs to internal and external stimuli
of non-human animals that can express jealousy towards other animals or animal-like objects. This emotion may feed into other behavioural problems, manifest
Dog_behavior
Bluffing display of an animal used to startle or scare a predator
Deimatic behaviour, also known as threat display or startle display, means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such
Deimatic_behaviour
Defensive feature of prey for selective advantage
startling behaviour, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, so as to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an
Anti-predator_adaptation
Analysis of animal behaviour
explanations for animal behaviour. These are commonly called levels of analysis. It suggests that an integrative understanding of behaviour must include ultimate
Tinbergen's_four_questions
Behavior; storage of food in hidden locations
scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica: implications for social cognition". Animal Behaviour. 70 (6): 1251–1263. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.183.6317. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav
Hoarding_(animal_behavior)
Behaviour of opening and closing the jaw found in many animals
an object. It is a common zoological behavior, being found in toothed animals such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and arthropods.[citation
Biting
Vocalizations produced by females for mating
guarding, reproductive success and female choice in African elephants". Animal Behaviour. 37: 842–849. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(89)90068-7. S2CID 53150105. Løvlie
Female copulatory vocalizations
Female_copulatory_vocalizations
Set of ritualized behaviours in animals
Display behaviour is a set of ritualized behaviours that enable an animal to communicate to other animals (typically of the same species) about specific
Display_(zoology)
Personality in animals has been investigated across a variety of different scientific fields including agricultural science, animal behaviour, anthropology
Personality_in_animals
Study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due to ecological pressures
examples of behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due
Behavioral_ecology
Instinctive animal behavior
Several examples of sign stimuli can be seen through the observation of animal behaviour in their natural environment. Experimenters have gone into these natural
Fixed_action_pattern
Ritual behavior in non-humans
Animal faith is the study of animal behaviours that suggest proto-religious faith. It is commonly believed that religion and faith are unique to humans
Ritual_behavior_in_animals
Occupation to help understanding cat behaviour
2018. "Training Courses in Companion Animal Behaviour - Animal Behaviour and Training Council". Animal Behaviour & Training Council. Archived from the
Cat_behaviorist
Philosophical and psychological concept
non-human animals lack these skills and depend on more simple learning processes such as associative learning; or in other words, they are simply behaviour-reading
Theory_of_mind_in_animals
Species of mongoose from Southern Africa
Russell, A. F.; Sharpe, L. L. (2004). "Behavioural tactics of breeders in cooperative meerkats". Animal Behaviour. 68 (5): 1029–1040. Bibcode:2004AnBeh
Meerkat
Type of animal mating behaviour
Lynn Siri (1980). "The behaviour of male orchid bees (Apidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta) and the question of leks". Animal Behaviour. 28 (4): 996–1004. doi:10
Lek_mating
Study of the welfare of animals
launched more recently, e.g. Applied Animal Behaviour Science in 1974, Animal Welfare in 1992, the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science in 1998, and Frontiers
Animal_welfare_science
Communication to start a relationship with someone or to get sexual contact
sexology Display (zoology) – Set of ritualized behaviours in animals Lek (biology) – Type of animal mating behaviourPages displaying short descriptions of redirect
Courtship_display
Domesticated omnivorous even-toed ungulate
"Review of wallowing in pigs: Description of the behaviour and its motivational basis". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 132 (1): 1–13. Bibcode:2011AABS..132
Pig
Genus of spiders
(January 2012). "Sexual cannibalism benefits offspring survival". Animal Behaviour. 83 (1): 201–207. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.027. S2CID 53149581
Latrodectus
Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988)
and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of ethology, the study of animal behaviour, and an important figure in the
Nikolaas_Tinbergen
Occupation to help understanding animal behaviour
An animal behavior consultant is a practitioner of applied behavior analysis or clinical animal behaviour, who helps resolve behavior problems in animals
Animal_behavior_consultant
Catalogue of behaviours exhibited by an animal
ethogram is a catalogue or inventory of behaviours or actions exhibited by an animal used in ethology. The behaviours in an ethogram are usually defined to
Ethogram
Subfamily of New World monkeys
correlates of behavioural profiles and coping strategies in captive capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 207: 108–115
Capuchin_monkey
Collective behaviour of entities that swarm
Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps
Swarm_behaviour
Topics referred to by the same term
Animal sexes may refer to: Animal sexual behaviour, sexuality and sexual activities within animal species Canine reproduction, the process of sexual reproduction
Animal_sex
Species of Old World monkey
A. J.; Cowlishaw, G. (2009). "All together now: behavioural synchrony in baboons". Animal Behaviour. 78 (6): 1381–1387. Bibcode:2009AnBeh..78.1381K.
Chacma_baboon
abnormal behaviour. This topic is of special concern for its conservation and human health implications and has been studied greatly by animal behaviourists
Pollutant-induced abnormal behaviour
Pollutant-induced_abnormal_behaviour
identifying tool use is defining what constitutes a tool. Researchers of animal behaviour have arrived at different formulations. In 1981, Beck published a widely
Tool_use_by_non-human_animals
Animal cognition
Collective animal behaviour is a form of social behavior involving the coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals as well as emergent properties
Collective_animal_behavior
Removal of an animal's reproductive organ
aggressive behaviour, either to humans or other dogs. The risk of infections, bleeding, ruptures, inflammation and reactions to the drugs given to the animal as
Neutering
Type of small omnivorous rodent
and Genetic Mating System of Prairie Voles, Microtus ochrogaster". Animal Behaviour. 82 (6): 1387–1398. Bibcode:2011AnBeh..82.1387S. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav
Vole
animals. Stereotypies are the result of inability of an animal to perform a normal behaviour due to external environmental conditions or circumstance
Abnormal behaviour of birds in captivity
Abnormal_behaviour_of_birds_in_captivity
Deception by non-human animals
animal performs a programmed act of behaviour, as when a prey animal feigns death to avoid being eaten. At the third level, the deceptive behaviour is
Deception_in_animals
Signal made by social animals to warn others of danger
apparently "self-sacrificing" behaviour. The central question is this: "If the ultimate purpose of any animal behaviour is to maximize the chances that
Alarm signal (animal communication)
Alarm_signal_(animal_communication)
for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) is a British organization founded in 1936 to promote ethology and the study of animal behaviour. ASAB holds conferences
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Association_for_the_Study_of_Animal_Behaviour
Study of cognition leading to behaviour
techniques). Behavioural science has its roots in the systematic study of human and animal behaviour, shaped by work in psychology, behavioural neuroscience
Behavioural_sciences
Form of play fighting
Kumar (September 2010). "Play behaviour during early ontogeny in free-ranging dogs (Canis familiaris)". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 126 (3–4): 140–153
Rough-and-tumble_play
Animals portal Psychology portal Altruism in animals Animal cognition Animal communication Animal consciousness Animal faith Animal sexual behaviour §
Emotion_in_animals
Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author (1933–2024)
feminist, and author of numerous books. A pioneer in the study of animal behaviour in the wild, Dagg is credited with being the first person to study
Anne_Innis_Dagg
Behaviour and welfare of confined or domesticated animals
interested in the behaviour and welfare of confined or domesticated animals, including companion, farm, laboratory and zoo animal species. The Society
International Society for Applied Ethology
International_Society_for_Applied_Ethology
Transfer of information from animal to animal
Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers)
Animal_communication
Animal behavior
about an unfamiliar area. Bunting as a behaviour can be viewed as a variation of scent rubbing. This is when an animal, typically a carnivore, will rub its
Bunting_(animal_behavior)
Ability of some flying animals
Stenogastrinae): a socially costly status badge". Animal Behaviour. 57 (6). The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour: 1233–1239. doi:10.1006/anbe.1999.1101
Hover_(behaviour)
Law of parsimony in comparative (animal) psychology
advanced description of the behaviour cannot be posed. Alternatively, animal behaviours can be justified as complex when the animal's initiative involves components
Morgan's_Canon
British biologist (born 1945)
research interests include vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal consciousness and animal welfare. Dawkins was educated at Queen's
Marian_Dawkins
Non-pathological pattern of animal behavior which displays very low variability
In animal behaviour, stereotypy, stereotypic or stereotyped behaviour has several meanings, leading to ambiguity in the scientific literature. A stereotypy
Stereotypy_(non-human)
Stable vice in horses
of racehorses performed one or more abnormal stereotypical behaviour that lead back to animal welfare and husbandry systems. Wind-sucking occurs in 3.8%
Cribbing_(horse)
Animal reliance on other individuals to raise its young
Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears
Brood_parasitism
Largest living land animal
"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
Elephant
1872 book by Charles Darwin
separately in 1872. Darwin explores the biological aspects of emotional behaviour and the animal origins of human characteristics like smiling and frowning, shrugging
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The_Expression_of_the_Emotions_in_Man_and_Animals
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons
of Schreckstoff on the shoaling behaviour of the minnow: a test of Hamilton's selfish herd theory". Animal Behaviour. 45 (5): 1019–1024. Bibcode:1993AnBeh
Shoaling_and_schooling
Strategy used by organisms
affects sexual selection in wild populations of the ocellated wrasse". Animal Behaviour. 75 (5): 1715–1723. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.031. ISSN 0003-3472
Mate_choice_copying
brain physiology as well as physical and behavioural reactions. If fish feel pain, there are ethical and animal welfare implications including the consequences
Pain_in_fish
Index of animals with the same common name
threatening people by wild American crows". Animal Behaviour. This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the
Crow
Bond formed between animals of different species
the same protective behaviours with her calf. A cow and a blind mule formed an interspecies friendship in the Black Forest Animal Sanctuary. When the
Interspecies_friendship
Behavior in social animals
competition and social rank among female primates: a meta-analysis". Animal Behaviour. 62 (2): 265–271. doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1750. S2CID 53145237. Woodward
Social_grooming
Behavior and instructions in pigs
reactions to human emotional vocalizations:a citizen science study". Animal Behaviour. 214: 207–218. Bibcode:2024AnBeh.214..207L. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024
Pig_intelligence
Animal behavior
Dustbathing behaviour in jungle and domestic fowl reviewed from a Tinbergian and animal welfare perspective". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 93 (3–4):
Dust_bathing
Techniques for stimulating captive animals
challenge: Can problem solving opportunities enhance animal welfare?". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 102 (3–4): 246–261. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006
Behavioral_enrichment
British biologist
Spalding (14 July 1841 – 1877) was a British biologist who studied animal behaviour and worked in the home of Viscount Amberley. Spalding was born in Islington
Douglas_Spalding
Group of animals engaged in communal care of offspring
In zoology, a crèche (from a French term for childcare) is an animal behaviour where offspring are cared for as a group by multiple females. Many species
Crèche_(zoology)
Behaviour due to innate biological factors
mother's pouch upon being born. Other examples include animal fighting, animal courtship behaviour, internal escape functions, and the building of nests
Instinct
Species of bird native to South and Southeast Asia
popular for studying behaviour and physiology. Feeding behaviour can be predicted by the optimal foraging theory, where animals minimise time and energy
Scaly-breasted_munia
2001 non-fiction coffee table book
a class of animals such as mammals or reptiles. The introduction deals with how animals are classified. It also touches on animal behaviour and life cycles
Animal_(book)
Topic in Aristotelian philosophy
Aristotle's four causes, are complementary categories of explanations for animal behaviour. They are also commonly referred to as levels of analysis. The four
Four_causes
Aspect of human behavior
evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression". Animal Behaviour. 83 (3): 573–585. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.12.007. S2CID 3415520
Deference
Theory in evolutionary biology
humans, where researchers have studied behaviours including risk-taking by young men, hunting of large game animals, and costly religious rituals, finding
Signalling_theory
Tall African hoofed mammal
driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences". Animal Behaviour. 85 (2): 385–394. Bibcode:2013AnBeh..85..385C. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav
Giraffe
Practice of teaching behaviors to dogs
methods and owner–dog interactions: Links with dog behaviour and learning ability". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 132 (3–4): 169–177. doi:10.1016/j.applanim
Dog_training
Small domesticated carnivorous mammal
Their role in the population dynamics of Felis catus" (PDF). Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 65 (3): 273–283. Bibcode:1999AABS...65..273B. doi:10
Cat
Class of mating system in non-human species
Brock, T. H.; Parker, G. A. (1995). "Sexual coercion in animal societies". Animal Behaviour. 49 (5): 1345–1365. Bibcode:1995AnBeh..49.1345C. doi:10.1006/anbe
Polyandry_in_animals
Thermoregulatory animal behaviour
sometimes also known as sunbathing, is a thermoregulatory or comfort behaviour used by animals, especially birds, reptiles, and insects, to help raise their
Sunning_(behaviour)
Animals playing dead
the act of feigning death, or exhibiting thanatosis) is a behaviour in which some animals become apparently temporarily paralysed and unresponsive to
Apparent_death
Practice of animals eating their own mating partners
cannibalism is associated with female behavioural type, hunger state and increased hatching success". Animal Behaviour. 84 (3): 715–721. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav
Sexual_cannibalism
Domesticated species of canid
Lidicker WZ, Freund G (July 2009). "Behavioural biologists do not agree on what constitutes behaviour". Animal Behaviour. 78 (1): 103–110. Bibcode:2009AnBeh
Dog
farm mink, Mustela vison, genetically selected for behaviour towards humans" (PDF). Animal Behaviour. 64 (3): 487–501. Bibcode:2002AnBeh..64..487M. doi:10
Domestication_of_vertebrates
Tendency of an animal to revert to unconscious and automatic behaviour
drift, is the tendency of an animal to revert to unconscious and automatic behaviour that interferes with learned behaviour from operant conditioning. Instinctive
Instinctive_drift
Animal behavior scientist and author
31, 1938) is an ethologist and writer specialising in the field of animal behaviour and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial
David_McFarland
Research method in animal behavior
evidence through the observation of animal behaviour. A psychological methodology that attributes mental states to animals on the basis of anecdotes and on
Anecdotal_cognitivism
Type of socially subordinate ranking
Subordinate animals are opposite; their behaviour is submissive, and can be relatively easily influenced or inhibited by other group members. For many animal societies
Dominance_hierarchy
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