Sentence examples for behaviour of mammals from inspiring English sources
Even many aspects of the behaviour of mammals show a similar fixity.
MSH is known to influence the behaviour of mammals and the total amount of pigment in their skin, which darkens in man after administration of large doses of the hormone.
As in many insects, the courtship behaviour of most mammals does not appear to be elaborate; but, just as in the former group, most mammals (humans are an exception) have an acute sense of smell.
By studying the behaviour of the mammals, Prof Xavier Lambin and his colleagues from the University of Aberdeen discovered that far from remaining isolated, young members of the family groups wandered huge distances away from their "home" territory.
Since most of the landscapes worldwide are covered by road networks and various human objects, the marking behaviour of wild mammals may be profoundly changed due to human-caused habitat modifications.
We investigated the foraging behaviour of small mammals in depletable food patches and simulated two types of uniform risk, avian and mustelid.
As a generalization it may be said that territoriality is more important in the behaviour of birds than of mammals, but data for the latter are available primarily for diurnal species.
Direct observations of underwater behaviour of free-living marine mammals are rare.
As already mentioned, another general aspect of reproductive behaviour in mammals is the estrous cycle, knowledge of which is essential to an understanding of the mechanisms involved in the reproduction of any mammalian species.
The authors concluded: "This is the first evidence of megaherbivore communal latrines in non-mammal vertebrates, indicating that this mammal-type behaviour was present in distant relatives of mammals, and predates its previous oldest record by 220 Mya".
Most information on the control of feeding behaviour in vertebrates has come from studies of mammals, but the general patterns found in mammals appear to be present in fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
