... pollinators. Research into bee behaviour and foraging decisions has typically centred on managed eusocial bee species, including Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris . Non-eusocial bees are understudied with respect to foraging strategies and decision making, such as flower preferences. Understanding whether...

... Navigation Decision making Modeling Many animals have evolved behaviors to find favorable locations in complex natural environments. Such behaviors include chemotaxis to approach or avoid chemical stimuli, thermotaxis to find cooler or warmer regions, and phototaxis to approach or avoid light...

..., reducing agonistic behaviors and rank reversals. These findings demonstrate that exchange of sensory signals modulates future anti-predatory decision-making and intraspecific agonistic behaviors discretely, suggesting that the effect of these signals on shared neural circuitry is context dependent. We...

...Martyna J. Grabowska; James Steeves; Julius Alpay; Matthew Van De Poll; Deniz Ertekin; Bruno van Swinderen ABSTRACT Visual decision making in animals is influenced by innate preferences as well as experience. Interaction between hard-wired responses and changing motivational states determines...

.... and Schuster , S. ( 2002 ). Predicting three-dimensional target motion: how archer fish deteremine where to catch their dislodged prey . J. Exp. Biol.   205 , 3321 - 3326 . Schlegel , T. and Schuster , S. ( 2008 ). Small circuits for large tasks: high-speed decision-making in archerfish...

... different velocities on different substrates, rather than the shortest distance. The progress of decision making by these ants is determined by pheromone-based maintenance of paths, which is a collective decision. However, path optimization through individual decision making remains mostly unexplored. Here...

...Alberto Corral-López; Alexander Kotrschal; Niclas Kolm ABSTRACT Understanding what drives animal decisions is fundamental in evolutionary biology, and mate choice decisions are arguably some of the most important in any individual's life. As cognitive ability can impact decision making, elucidating...

... 2018 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Male fish gradually reduce anti-predator vigilance with increased fight duration, but can maintain greater vigilance for high danger threats than for low danger threats. Cognitive trade-off Decision making Interspecific...

... leech . J. Exp. Biol.   207 , 4535 - 4542 . 10.1242/jeb.01315 Crisp , K. M. and Mesce , K. A. ( 2006 ). Beyond the central pattern generator: amine modulation of decision-making neural pathways descending from the brain of the medicinal leech . J. Exp. Biol.   209 , 1746 - 1756...

... and is reliably predicted by a computational model based on pattern and intensity cues. Decision making Acoustic communication Female choice Phonotaxis Mate choice can be viewed as a computational chain of information-processing steps at the end of which a decision is made ( Bateson and Healy...

... . 10.1890/09-0358.1 Latty , T. and Beekman , M. ( 2011a ). Irrational decision-making in an amoeboid organism: transitivity and context-dependent preferences . Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci.   278 , 307 – 312 . 10.1098/rspb.2010.1045 Latty , T. and Beekman , M. ( 2011b...

... have to be consolidated to yield a consensus. One platform on which decision making can be examined is the relocation of animal societies. Relocation is the process by which organisms move from their old dwelling to a new nest along with all the inhabitants. This exposes them to the elements and thus...

...James J. Jun; André Longtin; Leonard Maler Cortical activity precedes self-initiated movements by several seconds in mammals; this observation has led into inquiries on the nature of volition. Preparatory neural activity is known to be associated with decision making and movement planning. Self...

... communication decision making phonotaxis The role of fluctuating asymmetry in sexual selection is much debated. After Møller suggested that small deviations from bilateral symmetry in male sexual ornaments may reliably reveal male quality ( Møller, 1990 ), and the discovery that these differences...

... © 2012. 2012 Anopheles gambiae Evarcha culicivora Salticidae Culex quinquefasciatus vision prey choice animation decision making A fundamental task for a predator that relies on vision is to determine whether objects that come into view are prey or non-prey, but the extent...

... © 2010. 2010 movement vision Salticidae decision making cognition psychophysics The quantification of perceptual thresholds allows for the assessment of the abilities and limitations of an animal's sensory system. It also permits an understanding of how brains ‘filter...

.... 14 , 221 - 248 . Amé J. M. , Halloy J. , Rivault C. , Detrain C. , Deneubourg J. L. ( 2006 ). Collegial decision making based on social amplification leads to optimal group formation . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 , 5835 - 5840 . Anderson J. R...

... diet. * These authors contributed equally to this work † Author for correspondence ( wkristan@ucsd.edu ) 15 12 2009 © 2010. 2010 behavioral choice behavioral hierarchy leech evolution decision making Over the past several decades the organization and function...