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7 kg) and 16 months after arrival at the institution, had a similar presentation to the conspecific bird in case 1.
Use of deslorelin acetate implants to mitigate aggression in two adult male domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) and correlating plasma testosterone concentrations
Summary of mean overlap between mapped Canyon and Rock wren home ranges and their nearest conspecific or heterospecific neighbor, measured from the intersection of 95% fixed kernels and 50% fixed kernel utilization distributions (UDs).
Overlapping home ranges and microhabitat partitioning among Canyon Wrens (Catherpes mexicanus) and rock wrens (Salpinctes obsoletus)
Body posture, vocalizations or the incorporation of bright coloration are typically used to establish dominance (Wiley 1973, Warner 1975, Clarke and Faulkes 1997, Peterson and Jacobs 2002) alert conspecifics of nearby threats or foraging opportunities (Godin and Morgan 1985, Beauchamp and Heeb 2001, Le Roux et al.
Male mating posture and courtship coloration of the temperate marine tubesnout, Aulorhynchus flavidus (Gill)
In this context, only animals infected with conspecific viruses can be regarded as reservoirs for a given virus.
Antibodies against MERS Coronavirus in dromedaries, United Arab Emirates, 2003 and 2013
Whether or not such antagonism is contextually adaptive, it is evident that California towhees perceive conspecifics at close proximity as threats.
Crouching towhee, hidden scrub-jay: California towhees, Melozone crissalis, attack conspecific mobbing partners while assaulting a western scrub-jay, Aphelocoma californica
Male cockroach nymphs exhibit significantly faster development when grouped with conspecific males than when alone (Holbrook and Schal, 1998).
Individual recognition in the olive nerite Snail Neritina reclivata (Neritopsina: Neritidae) as determined by clustering behavior
Fokkema & Koolhaas, 1985; Fokkema, Smit, Van der Gugten, & Koolhaas, 1988), thus supporting the adequacy of our preparation for evoking conspecific fighting.
Does conspecific fighting yield conditioned taste aversion in rats?
All subjects (80 adult male and female zebra finches) lived in two unisexual adult groups of conspecifics in 3 x 3 x 2 m aviaria near Seville, Spain, where water and food (seeds and vegetables) were supplied ad libitum.
REG outcome in an alarm situation in zebra finches/Produccion de un dispositivo REG en una situacion de alarma en el mandarin listado/Resultat d'un GEA dans une situation d'alarme pour des diamants mandarins/Das ergebnis eines Zufallsgenerators bei alarmierten Zebrafinken
However, although the majority of experiments retained their test crab (~70%), if a test crab escaped from the pot before interacting with a conspecific, the pot essentially became a control pot.
An evaluation of the effects of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) behavior on the efficacy of crab pots as a tool for estimating population abundance
Not only were males perching and returning to perches momentarily, but they appeared to be flying at conspecific males who came near the lily pad on which they were perched.
Mating behavior and male territoriality in Enallagma vesperum (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) on Ponds in Ohio and Northern Michigan
Lee (1966) described and illustrated the male, but no justification is presented that assures that it is conspecific with the specimens studied by Kishida (1943).
Notes on two problematic eastern Asian species of the spider genus Oecobius (Araneae, Oecobiidae, Linyphiidae)
In two separate trials involving two different apparatuses--one featuring ramps, the other trays--Vonk's subjects were provided opportunities either to reward only themselves with fruit, to reward only their conspecific partners, or to furnish food for both themselves and their partners.
How deep is your love? Human morality and the question of altriusm among nonhuman primates
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