Do laboratory animals like eating?

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red: morph-specific contest success and survival rates in a colour polymorphic agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour 74:337-341. in females is also lateralized: left-eye bias during aggressive courtship rejection in lizards. Assessment in contests of male lizards (Anolis carolinensis): how should smaller males respond when size matters? Animal Behaviour 69:1325-1336.

Do all animals sleep?

Some animals never exhibit a state that meets the behavioral definition of sleep. Others suspend or greatly reduce 'sleep' behavior for many weeks during the postpartum period or during seasonal migrations without any consequent 'sleep debt.' Rats die from one form of sleep deprivation, but sleep loss has not been shown to cause death in well-controlled studies in other vertebrate species. Some...

Do Animals Have Personality?

In the scenic Rocky Mountain town of Banff, Alberta, the site of Canada’s oldest national park, it is not un common to see elk grazing on lawns or near riverside trails. Why are elk wandering about town? The town may act as a refuge from wolves—a species that usually goes out of its way to avoid human contact. But elk “ townies,” as the locals refer to them, are a new phenomenon. Prior to the 1...

Eating Animals to Build Rapport: Conducting Research

Notions of hospitality, community, and the fostering of rapport and connection are foundational concerns for conducting research across difference. Drawing on methodological literature, this paper considers how access to various communities and “good” data is structured by the notion that in order to develop rapport researchers accept the “food”, specifically “meat” offered by their hosts. When...

Children Tested Like Animals