Katharina Hirschenhauser1,5), Adelino V.M. Canário2), Albert F.H. Ros3), Michael Taborsky4) & Rui F. Oliveira3) (1 Konrad Lorenz Research Station Gruenau, University of Vienna, Austria; 2 Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; 3 Unidade de Investigação em Eco-Etología, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal; 4 Konrad Lorenz Institute for Etholog...

1 Ghent University, Department of Nutrition, Genetics and Ethology, Merelbeke, Belgium. www.animalnutrition.ugent.be 2 Jimma University, Department of Animal Sciences, Jimma, Ethiopia. www.ju.edu.et/jucavm/node/34 3 Ghent University, Department of Applied Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Ghent, Belgium. http://www.ecochem.ugent.be/nl/ 4 Ghent University, Department of Geology and Soil Science...

In this paper we describe anomaly-based intrusion detection as a specialized case of the more general behavior detection problem. We draw concepts from the field of ethology to help us describe and characterize behavior and interactions. We briefly introduce a general framework for behavior detection and an algorithm for building a Markov-based model of behavior. We then apply the framework cre...

REPTILES and amphibians are, for many of us, the most fascinating animals on earth, with morphological, physiological, reproductive, behavioural and life style diversity far beyond anything found in mammals and birds, the typical focus of veterinary research and practice. When I started my career in reptile behaviour there was comparatively little interest in reptiles and amphibians in ethology...

The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics. Indeed, it is only in the last third of the century, within my own lifetime as a scholar, that economic theory has had many pretensions to being itself useful to the practical businessman or bureaucrat. I seem to recall that a great economist of the last g...

Research in human communication on an ethological basis is almost obsolete. The reasons for this are manifold and lie partially in methodological problems connected to the observation and description of behavior, as well as the nature of human behavior itself. In this chapter, we present a new, non-intrusive, technical approach to the analysis of human non-verbal behavior, which could help to s...

Investigators from diverse behavioral fields have long recognized the strong attachment of the neonatal and infantile animal to its mother. Although this affectional behavior has been commonly observed, there is, outside the field of ethology, scant experimental evidence permitting identification of the factors critical to the formation of this bond. Lorenz (1) and others have stressed the impo...

This paper describes the background of the first behavioural and ecological field studies on primates conducted by German primatologists in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Field research by scientists from DPZ started in the middle 1980s at a time when this was not yet considered a major task for DPZ. Establishment of field research became possible due to recommendations from institutional and ...

Tracking the movement of insects in their natural habitat is essential for understanding their basic biology, demography, and ethology. A wide variety of markers have been used to assess insect population dynamics, dispersal, territoriality, feeding behavior, trophic-level interactions, and other ecological interactions. The ideal marker should persist without inhibiting the insect's "normal" b...

The discovery of the social complexity of primate societies other than Homo sapiens, although it was made some 20 years ago, does not yet seem to have been fully taken on board by social theory (De Waal, 1982; Kummer, 1993; Strum, 1987). Violent arguments for or against sociobiology have taken center stage, as if it were necessary to defend the autonomy of the social against the danger of exces...