Sentence examples for chick behaviour from inspiring English sources

We filmed chick behaviour by inserting an infrared camera at the end of the bee-eaters' access tunnels.

Chicks' behaviour was recorded for a total of 6 consecutive minutes.

These observations were done in order to account for the potential effect of routine bird behaviour on HR, i.e. physical activities (aggressive interactions with neighbours, comfort behaviour, chick care or feeding).

A video camera was placed above the apparatus, so that we could record the chick's behaviour during the test.

Combined with changes in chick begging behaviour (Fig. 4b), our results suggest that when background levels of food availability are high, chick intake is predominantly controlled by chick satiation levels communicated through begging intensity.

The chick shows feeding behaviour immediately on hatching, receiving a regurgitated "soup" of crustaceans or fish by inserting its bill into the open mouth of the parent.

We used acoustic parent offspring recognition in zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, to test how acoustic similarity between individuals affects a chick's response behaviour.

These results suggest that although the acoustical properties of calls can provide instantaneous cues to the chick's begging behaviour in other species, these cues may not be necessary components of the signal of need in chicks of uniparous species.

Among egg hormonal components, testosterone has been found to vary according to the birds' social context and to affect chicks' growth and behaviour.

While some reviewers and book groups have also praised Koomson for her humour, this is presumably because the intensity of a situation in which a woman is raising her hated ex-partner's bastard is offset by cute-child behaviour and chick-littish touches.

In this paper, we present the implementation of an autonomous mobile robot developed by the authors to study group behaviour of chicks of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).