167 papers
The paper introduces FARMS, an open-source, interdisciplinary Python framework that unifies 3D modeling, simulation, and analysis tools to facilitate the construction and study of complex neuromechanical systems for both animals and robots across diverse environments.
This study of wild Guinea baboons reveals that in their egalitarian multilevel society, male reproductive success is driven more by age and stable female associations than by dominance, resulting in low reproductive skew and challenging traditional dominance-based models of mating strategies.
This study introduces a paired-object validation protocol demonstrating that feature salience in rodent exploration is not universal but depends on ecological background, as evidenced by wild-caught wood mice and striped field mice showing distinct preferences for object height while treating color, shape, and aperture differences as interchangeable.
This study demonstrates that male mice selectively approach conspecifics based on specific acoustic and temporal features of ultrasonic vocalizations recorded during social chasing, particularly responding to the calls of chased individuals rather than those of the chasers.
A five-year study of Eastern Water Dragons in Brisbane reveals that while increasing numbers of diseased conspecifics generally reduce social distance due to crowding, infected individuals paradoxically maintain larger distances from others, indicating that fungal infection constrains density-driven proximity through partial social avoidance.
This study demonstrates that while bumblebees' response latencies in judgment bias tasks reflect stable individual traits, their actual chamber choices are largely state-dependent and influenced by transient external factors.
This study demonstrates that while newly-hatched domestic chicks show a preference for auditory sequences with higher numerosity, this preference is driven by continuous variables like duration and total sound amount rather than a spontaneous ability to discriminate numerical differences when these factors are controlled.
This study demonstrates that in Common Reed Warblers, behavioral defenses against brood parasitism, including mobbing and egg rejection, rapidly degrade under relaxed selection and cannot be restored by social information, even in recently allopatric populations.
This paper introduces Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MAIRL), a scalable framework that decomposes complex joint value functions into individual value maps and low-dimensional interaction terms to successfully infer interpretable social goals from the behaviors of mice and primates.
This study reveals that Eurasian Woodcocks wintering in the Mediterranean exhibit significant behavioral flexibility and distinct habitat selection patterns compared to Atlantic populations, adapting to drier, rockier conditions through reduced nocturnal activity and increased daytime movements, which suggests both their resilience to environmental change and potential vulnerability to extreme drought.
This study demonstrates that the remoteness of autobiographical memories influences early retrieval stages by eliciting increased midline fronto-central theta power and denser, more efficient anterior-to-posterior theta connectivity approximately 800–1100 ms after memory onset.
This study demonstrates that free-flying *Drosophila melanogaster* utilize a short-term working memory of recent wind conditions, alongside olfactory cues, to modulate their post-stimulus search behavior and navigate effectively through turbulent airflow.
This study demonstrates that chacma baboons exhibit highly flexible, context-dependent antipredator behaviors that vary by predator type, demographic factors, and habitat, with a notable weakening of responses observed after predator densities increased, consistent with the risk allocation hypothesis.
This study demonstrates that emergent temporal patterns in smartphone usage over multiple days reflect higher-order cognitive constraints rather than basic sensorimotor limits, effectively bridging laboratory-based speeded tasks with naturalistic behavior to reveal how cognitive resource limitations shape real-world timing and age-related decline.
This study of the cleaner wrasse *Labroides dimidiatus* reveals that incomplete social dominance and flexible life-history strategies, such as rapid growth and harem switching, drive complex sex change dynamics that challenge traditional models of socially regulated protogynous sex change.
Using an agent-based model of Andean condors, this study demonstrates that in unpredictable, patchy landscapes, individuals who combine intermediate risk-taking with high reliance on social information can achieve up to 41% energy savings compared to asocial movement.
By integrating laboratory flow-respirometry, mesocosm accelerometer data, and multi-year field telemetry, this study reveals that while red drum can exploit turbulent wakes to reduce swimming costs in controlled settings, their wild habitat selection is primarily driven by ecological factors like foraging and predation refuge rather than hydrodynamic efficiency alone.
This study demonstrates that pigs exhibit consolation behavior by selectively offering affiliative contact to stressed group members they previously observed in distress, a targeted response that reduces anxiety and suggests that gradual, informed reintroductions are more effective for social buffering than abrupt regrouping.
This study demonstrates that Retatrutide partially attenuates streptozocin-induced learning and memory deficits in diabetic male rats by reducing hippocampal neuroinflammation and preserving cytoarchitecture, suggesting neuroprotective effects that extend beyond its glycemic control capabilities.
This paper demonstrates that the sea hare's buccal mass achieves large odontophore protractions during distinct feeding behaviors through context-dependent mechanical reconfigurations, revealing a fundamental distinction between "constrained" and "unconstrained" muscular hydrostats that rely on different control strategies based on the presence of mechanical constraints.