Sentence examples for conspecifics from inspiring English sources

But Alissa Ferry, of the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, in Trieste, and Susan Hespos and Sandra Waxman, both at Northwestern University, think that those voices need not belong to infants' conspecifics.

Although the observation of conspecifics engaged in a particular activity has clearly affected the tendency of the satiated chicken to engage in that activity, it is not clear what they might have learned from this observation.

By his reasoning, the emergence of eusocial animals such as ants (and, arguably, humans) could be attributed to a genetic predisposition to act altruistically toward even unrelated conspecifics and to act in concert with one group against another group.

For example, the sex-attractant pheromones of most moths are molecules containing 12, 14, 16, or 18 carbon atoms, and the aggregation pheromones of bark beetles, which attract huge numbers of conspecifics (members of the same species), comprise molecules with about 8 10 carbon atoms.

For example, American zoologist Paul Sherman found that female Belding's ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi) give staccato whistles that warn nearby conspecifics of a predator's approach but also attract the predator's attention to the caller.

The book also speaks of "the aversion most mammals have to killing conspecifics (members of their own species)," and notes that "pseudospeciation, the ability of humans and some other primates to classify certain members of their own species as 'other,' can neutralize the threshold of inhibition so they can kill conspecifics".

Such stimuli are termed key stimuli or sign stimuli and when provided by a conspecific organism (a member of the same species) are known as social releasers.

The indigo bunting can learn all this data from particular parts of the song of a conspecific (a bird of the same species), yet the total sequence of notes in the song, so conspicuous to humans, is not known to convey any information to the bird.

This time, we're not presented simply with one tribe muscling in on a rival but conspecific tribe's patch.

Lots of species live alongside similar-looking close relatives and seem to be capable of deciding who is and isn't a conspecific.

"In conclusion, although male horses and dogs do hold a slight speed advantage over conspecific females, the difference is an order of magnitude smaller than that seen in humans (1percentt versus 10percentt).