Thanatosis—also known as death-feigning and, we argue more appropriately, tonic
immobility (TI)—is an under-reported but fascinating anti-predator strategy adopted by …

Animal domestication leads to diverse behavioral, physiological, and neurocognitive
changes in domesticated species compared to their wild relatives. However, the widely held …

The effect of phenolic-rich onion extract (PROE), as a feed additive, was evaluated on the
growth, carcass traits, behavior, welfare, intestinal histology, amino acid ileal digestibility …

Background Artificial light is ubiquitous in the built environment with many known or
suspected impacts on birds. Birds flying at night are known to aggregate around artificial …

There is a growing recognition that animal behavior can affect wildlife conservation, but
there have been few direct studies of animal behavior in conservation programs. However, a …

Domesticated and vocal learning species can serve as informative model organisms for the
reduction of reactive aggression and emergence of speech in our lineage. Amidst mounting …

For language to be a vehicle of thought, protolanguage must develop a degree of complexity
that allows for the syntactic manipulation of symbol sequences. Thus, before language …

Although birds have recently been shown to possess olfactory abilities and to use chemical
cues in communication, limited effort has been made to demonstrate the use of odorants in …

Inter-individual variation in antipredatory behaviour has long attracted curiosity among
scientists. Deimatism is a complex, multi-component antipredatory strategy consisting of …

Social learning of vocalizations is integral to song inheritance in oscine passerines.
However, other factors, such as genetic inheritance and the developmental environment …