ANIMAL PLAY BEHAVIOR

Dental Behavior and Play Behavior

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the association between previous dental behavior and play ~behavior as reported in a previous investigation in preschool children could be duplicated in a group of schoolage children. The study consisted o~ 27 subjects divided into two experimental groups: a group of appropriatelybehaving children during a restorative dental appointment and a g...

Play behavior and occupational therapy.

The effectiveness of treatment methods on a person's ability to carry out occupational roles competently is of interest to occupational therapists. This case study demonstrated how play, as an occupational role of childhood and as a measure of competence, can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of occupational therapy that uses a sensory integrative approach. The positive changes in C.C.'s pl...

Animal Behavior and Cognition

A special issue on the interface between cognition and care for animals in captive settings. Within the special issue are papers examining different aspects of cognitive tasks as possible outlets for different terrestrial animals often found in captive settings such as zoological facilities and laboratories.

Epigenetics and Animal Behavior

Darwin and Animal Behavior

For many thousands of years, at different times and in different parts of the world, humans have studied their fellow creatures in an attempt to obtain a better understanding of their behavior. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, an increasing amount of observational – and occasionally experimental – research on behavior took place in Western Europe. Nonetheless, the foundations of the co...