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Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Behavioural Biology

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2019) | Viewed by 21296

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Prof. Oliver Burman

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Animal Behaviour, Cognition & Welfare Research Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Joseph Banks Laboratories, Lincoln LN6 7DL, UK
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Dr. Emily Bethell

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Evolutionary and Behavioural Biology Research Group, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 4AF, UK

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Dear colleagues,

This Special Issue of Animals is open for submission of papers presented at the 9th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, organized by Liverpool John Moores University at Liverpool, UK, 9–12 August 2018.

The Special issue will cover the latest developments in animal behaviour and biology and related fields, such as ecology, evolution, genetics, physiology, cognition, welfare and conservation.

Prof. Oliver Burman
Dr. Emily Bethell
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Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) Using Different Corridor Widths
by Gabriele Joanna Kowalski, Volker Grimm, Antje Herde, Anja Guenther and Jana A. Eccard
Animals 2019, 9(6), 291; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9060291 - 29 May 2019
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Animal personality may affect an animal’s mobility in a given landscape, influencing its propensity to take risks in an unknown environment. We investigated the mobility of translocated common voles in two corridor systems 60 m in length and differing in width (1 m [...] Read more.
Animal personality may affect an animal’s mobility in a given landscape, influencing its propensity to take risks in an unknown environment. We investigated the mobility of translocated common voles in two corridor systems 60 m in length and differing in width (1 m and 3 m). Voles were behaviorally phenotyped in repeated open field and barrier tests. Observed behavioral traits were highly repeatable and described by a continuous personality score. Subsequently, animals were tracked via an automated very high frequency (VHF) telemetry radio tracking system to monitor their movement patterns in the corridor system. Although personality did not explain movement patterns, corridor width determined the amount of time spent in the habitat corridor. Voles in the narrow corridor system entered the corridor faster and spent less time in the corridor than animals in the wide corridor. Thus, landscape features seem to affect movement patterns more strongly than personality. Meanwhile, site characteristics, such as corridor width, could prove to be highly important when designing corridors for conservation, with narrow corridors facilitating faster movement through landscapes than wider corridors. Full article
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Finding Meanings in Low Dimensional Structures: Stochastic Neighbor Embedding Applied to the Analysis of Indri indri Vocal Repertoire
by Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Valeria Torti, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Olivier Friard, Rose Marie Randrianarison, Cristina Giacoma and Marco Gamba
Animals 2019, 9(5), 243; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050243 - 15 May 2019
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Although there is a growing number of researches focusing on acoustic communication, the lack of shared analytic approaches leads to inconsistency among studies. Here, we introduced a computational method used to examine 3360 calls recorded from wild indris (Indri indri) from [...] Read more.
Although there is a growing number of researches focusing on acoustic communication, the lack of shared analytic approaches leads to inconsistency among studies. Here, we introduced a computational method used to examine 3360 calls recorded from wild indris (Indri indri) from 2005–2018. We split each sound into ten portions of equal length and, from each portion we extracted spectral coefficients, considering frequency values up to 15,000 Hz. We submitted the set of acoustic features first to a t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding algorithm, then to a hard-clustering procedure using a k-means algorithm. The t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) mapping indicated the presence of eight different groups, consistent with the acoustic structure of the a priori identification of calls, while the cluster analysis revealed that an overlay between distinct call types might exist. Our results indicated that the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), successfully been employed in several studies, showed a good performance also in the analysis of indris’ repertoire and may open new perspectives towards the achievement of shared methodical techniques for the comparison of animal vocal repertoires. Full article
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Human Attitude toward Reptiles: A Relationship between Fear, Disgust, and Aesthetic Preferences
by Markéta Janovcová, Silvie Rádlová, Jakub Polák, Kristýna Sedláčková, Šárka Peléšková, Barbora Žampachová, Daniel Frynta and Eva Landová
Animals 2019, 9(5), 238; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050238 - 14 May 2019
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Focusing on one group of animals can bring interesting results regarding our attitudes toward them and show the key features that our evaluation of such animals is based on. Thus, we designed a study of human perception of all reptiles focusing on the [...] Read more.
Focusing on one group of animals can bring interesting results regarding our attitudes toward them and show the key features that our evaluation of such animals is based on. Thus, we designed a study of human perception of all reptiles focusing on the relationship between perceived fear, disgust, and aesthetic preferences and differences between snakes and other reptiles. Two sets containing 127 standardized photos of reptiles were developed, with one species per each subfamily. Respondents were asked to rate the animals according to fear, disgust, and beauty on a seven-point Likert scale. Evaluation of reptile species shows that people tend to perceive them as two clearly distinct groups based on their similar morphotype. In a subset of lizards, there was a positive correlation between fear and disgust, while disgust and fear were both negatively correlated with beauty. Surprisingly, a positive correlation between fear and beauty of snakes was revealed, i.e., the most feared species also tend to be perceived as beautiful. Snakes represent a distinct group of animals that is also reflected in the theory of attentional prioritization of snakes as an evolutionary relevant threat. Full article
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Future Directions for Personality Research: Contributing New Insights to the Understanding of Animal Behavior
by Vanessa Wilson, Anja Guenther, Øyvind Øverli, Martin W. Seltmann and Drew Altschul
Animals 2019, 9(5), 240; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050240 - 15 May 2019
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As part of the European Conference on Behavioral Biology 2018, we organized a symposium entitled, “Animal personality: providing new insights into behavior?” The aims of this symposium were to address current research in the personality field, spanning both behavioral ecology and [...] Read more.
As part of the European Conference on Behavioral Biology 2018, we organized a symposium entitled, “Animal personality: providing new insights into behavior?” The aims of this symposium were to address current research in the personality field, spanning both behavioral ecology and psychology, to highlight the future directions for this research, and to consider whether differential approaches to studying behavior contribute something new to the understanding of animal behavior. In this paper, we discuss the study of endocrinology and ontogeny in understanding how behavioral variation is generated and maintained, despite selection pressures assumed to reduce this variation. We consider the potential mechanisms that could link certain traits to fitness outcomes through longevity and cognition. We also address the role of individual differences in stress coping, mortality, and health risk, and how the study of these relationships could be applied to improve animal welfare. From the insights provided by these topics, we assert that studying individual differences through the lens of personality has provided new directions in behavioral research, and we encourage further research in these directions, across this interdisciplinary field. Full article
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