Integrating Tinbergen’s inquiries: Mimicry and play in humans and other social mammals

Authors: Elisabetta Palagi, Chiara Scopa

Publication/Journal: Learning & Behavior

Keywords: apes, dogs, emotional contagion, ethological perspective, homo sapiens, monkeys, seals

2017

Male-male affiliation and cooperation characterize the social behavior of the large-bodied pitheciids, Chiropotes and Cacajao: A review

Authors: Tremaine Gregory, Mark Bowler

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: affiliation, cooperation, dispersal, kinship, large groups

2016

Ambient temperature influences birds’ decisions to eat toxic prey

Authors: M. Chatelain, C. G. Halpin, C. Rowe

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aposematism, decision-making, dietary cognition, mimicry, nutrient–toxin trade-off, state-dependent foraging

2013

Male nestling-like courtship calls attract female barn swallows, Hirundo rustica gutturalis

Authors: Masaru Hasegawa, Emi Arai, Mamoru Watanabe, Masahiko Nakamura

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: barn swallow, courtship display, hirundo rustica gutturalis, intraspecific mimicry, sensory exploitation, sexual selection

2013

Facultative Pheromonal Mimicry in Snakes: “She-Males” Attract Courtship Only When it is Useful

Authors: R. Shine, T. Langkilde, R.T. Mason

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Keywords: chemical communication, reproductive tactics, reptile sociality, sexual mimicry

2012

Manual of Parrot Behavior

Authors: A. U. Luescher

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: companion animals, parrot, parrot behavior, parrot behaviour, psiattacines

2006