The hypothesis of the critical period of socialization as originally presented by Scott and Marston sl was reviewed and extended by Scott ?s in describing the behavioral development of non-precocial mammals, in other words, those born relatively immature. In this way, the term critical period originally used in embryology was applied to ethology, the objective study of animal behavior 9z. For p...

Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, Radolfzell, Germany, Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Sw...

1 Laboratory of Experimental and Comparative Ethology, University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Villetaneuse, France, 2 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 3 UMR 7261 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l’Insecte, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France, 4 Departments of Entomology and Chemist...

Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. 1 [email protected] Department of Animal Physiology and Ethology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Institute of Physiology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Deparment of Molecular Biology, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia Institute of Pathophysiology, Comenius University, Brat...

Understanding the neural basis of human honesty and deception has enormous potential scientific and practical value. However, past approaches, largely developed out of studies with forensic applications in mind, are increasingly recognized as having serious methodological and conceptual shortcomings. Here we propose to address these challenges by drawing on so-called signaling games widely used...

In this general, strongly pro-animal, and somewhat utopian and personal essay, I argue that we owe aquatic animals respect and moral consideration just as we owe respect and moral consideration to all other animal beings, regardless of the taxonomic group to which they belong. In many ways it is more difficult to convince some people of our ethical obligations to numerous aquatic animals becaus...

Here we aim to lay the theoretical foundations of human-robot relationship drawing upon insights from disciplines that govern relevant human behaviors: ecology and ethology. We show how the paradox of the so called "uncanny valley hypothesis" can be solved by applying the "niche" concept to social robots, and relying on the natural behavior of humans. Instead of striving to build human-like soc...

The aim of the present study was to test the cognitive ethology approach, which seeks to link cognitions and behaviours as they operate in everyday life with those studied in controlled lab-based investigations. Our test bed was the understanding of first-person and third-person perspectives, which in lab-based investigations have been defined in a diverse and multi-faceted manner. We hypothesi...