Vertical transmission of behavioral variation (a form of 'social inheritance') may help populations adapt to environmental change if a novel behavior facilitates the use of a novel environment or provides a new way of interacting with the environment (Wcislo 1989; Duckworth 2009).
However, our study also suggests that, in at least some cases, social transmission can greatly speed up the spread of a novel behavior pattern through animal groups, as in the case of moss-sponging.
We examined the effectiveness of a novel behavior modification method for dysfunctional and impulsive habits, based on non-removable reminders (NrR).
As a result, it has never been possible to document the genesis and spread of a novel behavior in any wild chimpanzee community.
Bivouac checking, a novel behavior distinguishing obligate from opportunistic species of army-ant-following birds.
First, we found support for our hypothesis that highly restricted TRGs should be disproportionately associated with the worker caste relative to the queen caste because workers exhibit the novel behavior of honey bees.
Second, we predicted that if taxonomically restricted genes are important for generating novel eusocial traits, then they should be expressed with greater frequency in workers relative to the queen, as the workers exhibit most of the novel behavior of the honey bee relative to their solitary ancestors.
Therefore, we propose that xenografts of human cells into chick embryos can reveal novel behaviors of heterogeneous cell populations, such as response to migration cues.
Here, we report on a novel swimming behavior of the bel mutants, best described as looping.
When fibroblasts were seeded in 3D silicone microwells of varying stiffness, they exhibited a range of novel behaviors compared to the behavior of those in 2D environments.
