Shortly after birth, both naïve animals and newborn babies exhibit a spontaneous attraction
to faces and face-like stimuli. While neurons selectively responding to faces have been …

The choice of an appropriate sample size for a study is a notoriously neglected topic in
behavioural research, even though it is of utmost importance and the rules of action are …

The sciences of development and learning have been slow to acknowledge that absence of
an identifiable experience that relates straightforwardly to a given perception-action ability …

This paper describes a study to assess the utility of a life-sized plush model dog as a
screening tool for conspecific aggression in a population of dogs bred for use in dogfighting …

In birds, nestling begging is often triggered by visual or acoustic stimuli from parents.
Although begging occurs in some insects, it is not known whether it is triggered by specific …

Soon after birth, naive animals and newborn babies show spontaneous attraction towards
faces and face-like stimuli with three dark features representing eyes and a mouth/beak …

In some animals, offspring begging is elicited by parents through behavioural or
morphological signals. The red spot on the lower mandible in adult gulls is one of the best …

The evolution of begging display may be influenced by gene–environment interaction,
through the mechanisms that adjust begging behaviour to environmental conditions of …

Abstract Tinbergen's classic “On Aims and Methods of Ethology”(Zeitschrift für
Tierpsychologie, 20, 1963) proposed four levels of explanation of behavior, which he …

One of the classic studies in animal behaviour is that by Niko Tinbergen on the stimuli that
elicit begging behaviour in young herring gull, Larus argentatus, chicks. Tinbergen …