This article questions the articulation between John Stuart Mill’s initial project of creating a new science dedicated to means improving individual character, named “ethology,” and treatise political economy that he published instead. My claim is his defense free competition as well some arguments opposes it, which have often puzzled readers, actually reveal moral agenda principles, specifical...

1 Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Savoyenstrasse 1 A, A-1160 Vienna, Austria 2 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland 3 School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001...

We posit a new geometric perspective to define, detect, and classify inherent patterns of collective behaviour across a variety of animal species. We show that machine learning techniques, and specifically the isometric mapping algorithm, allow the identification and interpretation of different types of collective behaviour in five social animal species. These results offer a first glimpse at t...

Cognitive science has been shaped by analytic philosophy and the computer metaphor, which has led to the dominance of such themes and notions as rationality, language, representation, functionalism, and computation. I would like to make a case for a cognitive science which lets itself be shaped by a phenomenological philosophy and biology. Central notions then become: experience, embodiment, et...

We introduce the wide area of problems that exist in the domain of animal ethology. We then develop a technique to solve one such problem using aspects of computer vision. The method processes a video sequence of broiler chickens in a group-housing pen. A new technique has been developed for extracting a background image, which compensates for the particular idiosyncrasies inherent to the probl...

VINCENZO PENTERIANI,* MARÍA DEL MAR DELGADO, RENATO 3 STIGLIANO, LETIZIA CAMPIONI 4 & MARÍA SÁNCHEZ 4 Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, C.S.I.C., c/Americo 5 Vespucio s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain 6 Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University Campus 7 Mieres, 33600 Mieres, Spain 8 Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, FI-00014...

Roland Pálffy , Roman Gardlík , Július Hodosy 3, , Lukác Halcák, Peter Celec 2, 3, * BiomeD Research and Publishing Group Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Department of Animal Physiology and Ethology, Faculty of Natural...