Many group-living animals construct transportation networks of trails, galleries and burrows by modifying the environment to facilitate faster, safer or more efficient movement. Animal transportation networks can have direct influences on the fitness of individuals, whereas the shape and structure of transportation networks can influence community dynamics by facilitating contacts between diffe...

We describe a behavioural experiment with the hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor and show how its behaviour in the experimental situation can be reproduced by a computational model. The aim of the model is to investigate what learning strategies are necessary to produce the behaviour observed in the experiment. Since very little is known about the nervous system of the animal, the model is mainly base...

Behavioural studies are of great importance in increasing our understanding and appreciation of animals. In addition to providing knowledge about the diversity and complexity of behaviour in nature, such studies also provide information crucial to improvements in thewelfare of animals maintained in laboratories, agricultural settings and zoos, and as companion animals. The use of animals in beh...

Animal behaviour is an elastic trait that changes according to environmental circumstances and 12 intrinsic properties, such as health or genetic background (i.e., breed). The term elasticity 13 refers the range of animal capable express. evaluation may 14 be used estimate either adaptation capacity a changing environment 15 status, temperament, etc. However, in order identify behaviour, it nee...

BACKGROUND Behaviour and time spent active and inactive are key factors in animal ecology, with important consequences for bioenergetics. For the first time, here, we equipped the gastropod Tectus (= Trochus) niloticus with accelerometers to describe activity rhythms at two sites in the Southwest Pacific with different temperature regimes: New Caledonia and Vanuatu. RESULTS Based on a 24-hour...