Sixty Years of Tinbergen’s Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary

Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens

Keywords: animal management, behavioural ecology, causation, conservation, function, ontogeny, phylogeny, zoo animal husbandry

2024

UVS is Rare in Seabirds

Authors: G.E. Machovsky Capuska, L. Huynen, D. Lambert, D. Raubenheimer

Publication/Journal: Vision Research

Keywords: albatross, gulls, phylogeny, seabirds, sws1 opsin, uvs, vs

2011

Arboreality has allowed for the evolution of increased longevity in mammals

Authors: M. R. Shattuck, S. A. Williams

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Keywords: extrinsic mortality, marsupials, primates, senescence, terrestriality

2010

Evolution of wakefulness, sleep and hibernation: From reptiles to mammals

Authors: Ruben V. Rial, Mourad Akaârir, Antoni Gamundí, Cristina Nicolau, Celia Garau, Sara Aparicio, Silvia Tejada, Lluis Gené, Julián González, Luis M. De Vera

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: basking behavior, basking behaviour, evolution of hibernation, evolution of nrem, evolution of rem, evolution of sleep, goal directed behavior, goal directed behaviour, risk assessment behavior, risk assessment behaviour, sleep phylogeny

2010

Ontogeny and phylogeny: both are essential to human-sensitive behaviour in the genus Canis

Authors: Monique A. R. Udell, Clive D. L. Wynne

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: canis familiaris, canis lupus, domestic dog, domestication hypothesis, object-choice task, social cognition, two-stage hypothesis, wolf

2010

History and future of comparative analyses in sleep research

Authors: John A. Lesku, Timothy C. Roth Ii, Niels C. Rattenborg, Charles J. Amlaner, Steven L. Lima

Publication/Journal: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Keywords: bird, energy conservation, function, human, independent contrasts, mammal, memory consolidation, phylogeny, rem sleep, slow-wave activity

2009

Variability in sensory ecology: expanding the bridge between physiology and evolutionary biology

Authors: Olivier Dangles, Duncan Irschick, Lars Chittka, Jerome Casas

Publication/Journal: The Quarterly Review of Biology

Keywords: adaptation, environmental changes, field experiments, invertebrates, ontogeny, phylogeny, populations, sensory ecology, vertebrates

2009

Comparative Methods with Sampling Error and Within-Species Variation: Contrasts Revisited and Revised

Authors: Joseph Felsenstein

Publication/Journal: The American Naturalist

Keywords: comparative method, contrasts, phenotypic variance, phylogeny, sampling error, statistics

2008

Scaling of body temperature in mammals and birds

Authors: Andrew Clarke, Peter Rothery

Publication/Journal: Functional Ecology

Keywords: birds, mammal, mass, scaling, temperature

2007

Photoreceptor sectral sensitivities in terrestrial animals: adaptations for luminance and colour vision

Authors: D. Osorio, M. Vorobyev

Publication/Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Keywords: color vision, colour vision, ecology, evolution, photoreceptor, retina

2005

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