The ovipositor of the female (Leucospidae) is sometimes very short, otherwise it curved and extends along dorsal part abdomen. males have peculiarity that segments metasoma form a kind capsule or shell. deposits an egg on near prey. When larva hatches, first seeks out kills any competitors only then begins to feed host. objective this article deal with animal behavior Leucospidae Family. For th...

A complete understanding of communication language intention ality and related mental phenomena will require a theory integrating mechanistic explanations with ethological phenomena For the foresee able future the complexities of natural life in its natural environment will preclude such an understanding An approach more conducive to carefully controlled experiments and to the discovery of deep...

This book is a collection of state-of-the-art empirical studies in a paradigm that has become known as human behavioral ecology. The emergence of this approach in aiithropology was marked by the publication in 1979 of another collection of studies entitled Evolritionai-jBiology arid Hitiiiun Social Behavioi-: Aii Ar.itl.rropologiciil Per-specriw (Chagnon and Irons 1979). During the two decades ...

ETHOLOGY ORIGINATED with Konrad Lorenz's work in the 1930s, but did not have widespread impact until the early 1950s, and then mainly through the writings of N. Tinbergen, a student and collaborator of Lorenz's. In Tinbergen's The Study of Instinct (1951), ethology was revealed as a new, widely ranging theory of behavior, the cornerstone of which was the assertion, forcefully supported with evi...

This article addresses the question of mental states in animals as viewed in 'cognitive ethology'. In effect, this field of research aims at studying naturally occurring behaviours such as food caching, individual recognition, imitation, tool use and communication in wild animals, in order to seek for evidence of mental experiences, self-awareness and intentionality. Cognitive ethologists use s...

Professor Eibl-Eibesfeldt is a pupil of Konrad Lorenz, the father of ethology, and is director of the section concerned with human ethology at the Max Planck Institute for comparative physiology. This book is a translation from German and it follows an established tradition of Lorenz, Desmond Morris and others who are relating the human to animal behaviour as studied in various species of fishe...

Abstract In order to develop a true biological science of consciousness, we have remove humans from the center reference and bottom-up comparative study animal minds, as Donald Griffin intended with his call for “cognitive ethology.” this article, I make use pathological complexity thesis (Veit 2022a, b, c) show that can firmly ground consciousness by drawing on resources state-based behavioral...

Synthetic ethology was developed as a methodology for constructing experiments in which artificial agents could exhibit real (i.e., not simulated) intentionality and other mental phenomena. This report has two purposes. The first is to review the motivations for synthetic ethology as an experimental methodology and to explain how it can be used to investigate intentionality and meaning, and the...