behavior

Language is not art but both are forms of human behavior.

There's been a pattern of insubordinate behavior recently.

All we can do is observe bird behavior.

Plus, there is plenty of publish research on referendum voting behavior.

So, in endotherms it's really not about behavior, about doing things.

And that's where behavior comes in.

It's by means of such behavior that an ectotherm like this lizard regulates its temperature.

Tulip flowers with stripes or streaks or feather or flame patterns on their petals, there is no doubt in my mind that these symptoms of this breaking virus affected human behavior too indirectly, that they set off the famous tulip craze in the Netherlands.

So early in a season, or when you first take a new job, establish a few basic ground rules for what is acceptable and non-acceptable behavior.

The nobility and churchmen determined the predominant social attitudes, values, and patterns of thought and behavior.

I'd like to continue our discussion of animal behavior, and start off today's class by focusing on a concept we haven't yet touched upon: swarm intelligence.

Swarm intelligence is a collective behavior that emerges from a group of animals like a colony of termites, a school of fish, or a flock of birds.

So similar to the ant's behavior, at each intermediate node, the call follows the path that is most reinforced.

But getting back to animal behavior, another example of swarm intelligence is the way flocks of birds are able to fly together so cohesively.

The three rules I mentioned might be great for bird simulations, but they don't take into account the complexity and unpredictability of human behavior.

Their worship was linked to the rituals connected with one’s progress through life - birth, marriage, and death -  and with invoking protection against danger, making prophecies, and promoting healing, rather than to any code of behavior.

In thinking of ice so far from the Sun, it is important not to judge its behavior from that of the much warmer ice we know on Earth; at the temperatures of the outer solar system, ice on the surface is nearly as hard as rock, and behaves similarly.

However, behavior is by far the most important factor in thermoregulation.

Thigmothermy is a behavior present in most amphibians, although pressing against the ground serves a dual purpose: heat absorption by conductivity and water absorption through the skin.

Avoidance behavior occurs whenever physiological and morphological adaptations are insufficient to maintain body temperature within the vital range.

Nocturnal activity in amphibians with low tolerance for high ambient temperatures is a typical thermoregulatory behavior of avoidance.

Seasonal avoidance behavior is extremely important in many amphibians.

Though Hubbell and Johnson were interested in how bee behavior might affect colony distributions, they recognized that the availability of potential nest sites for colonies could also affect distributions.

The principal elements in behavioral thermoregulation are basking (heliothermy), heat exchange with substrates such as rock or earth (thigmothermy), and diurnal and annual avoidance behaviors, which include moving to shelter during the day for cooling and hibernating or estivating (reducing activity during cold or hot weather, respectively).

One of the problems in providing a clear definition of play is that it involves the same behaviors that take place in other circumstance--dominance, predation, competition, and real fighting.

Thus, whether play occurs or not depends on the intention of the animals, and the intentions are not always clear from behaviors alone.

Play can also provide practice in social behaviors needed for courtship and mating.

Learning appropriate social behaviors is especially important for species that live in groups, like young monkeys that needed to learn to control selfishness and aggression and to understand the give-and-take involved in social groups.

This is especially true when play consists of practicing normal aggressive or predator behaviors.