...Volker Berendes; Volker Dürr ABSTRACT Many animals use their tactile sense for active exploration and tactually guided behaviors such as near-range orientation. In insects, tactile sensing is often intimately linked to locomotion, resulting in the orchestration of several concurrent active...

... wood mice revealed higher levels of locomotion and exploration than C57BL/6J mice. Learning and memory performance in the novel object recognition test was similar in both Formosan wood mice and C57BL/6J mice, but more agile responses in the inhibitory avoidance discrimination task were found...

...Hannah Page; Andrew Sweeney; Anna Pilko; Noa Pinter-Wollman ABSTRACT Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population dynamics, the spread of invasive species, species interactions, etc. In social animals, individuals within a group can vary...

... high-speed video cameras (1000 frames per second, Photron FastCam 1024-PCI) were used to monitor the rats as they explored the wall. One camera captured a ‘bird's-eye’ view and the second a ‘head-on’ view through the glass wall. The rat's eyes and nose were tracked in both camera views...

... damage: malondialdehyde (MDA). We measured two personality traits: neophobia (latency to approach food near novel objects) and object exploration (latency to approach novel objects). These traits were uncorrelated. ROMs, OXY, OS and MDA were also uncorrelated with each other. Highly neophobic birds had...

... for 10 min. Analysis of the locomotor activity of the participants revealed the following exploratory behaviors: (1)`looping'; (2) `wall-following'; (3) `step-counting'; (4) `cross-cutting'; and(5) `free traveling'. Looping is a typical exploratory mode of sightless explorers, based on returning...

..., both of which recruit nestmates. Our experiments suggest that during exploration the ants deposit a long-lasting pheromone that elicits a weak recruitment of nestmates, while when exploiting food the ants deposit a shorter lasting pheromone eliciting a much stronger recruitment. We further investigate...

... placed animals in different tactile situations at the start of an exploration in a dark arena and tracked the position of the body and antennae to test whether subsequent search behaviour was affected. Individuals were exposed to differently textured walls, channelled out along a wall, or released...

... is interrupted by an interval of exploration, in which the insect probes the gap space with its antennae and front legs. When reaching the gap, loss of contact of an antenna with the ground does not elicit any observable reactions. In contrast, an initial front leg step into the gap that often follows antennal...