Sentence examples for manipulating the box from inspiring English sources

Although the exact learning mechanism could unfortunately not be determined with this experimental setting, redfronted lemurs who observed others manipulating the box for a longer time required fewer manipulations at the box until their first success.

We used the rate of observing others manipulating the box as the dependent variable.

Apart from that, the experimenter was standing about 2 m from the platform, watching the model manipulating the box.

The rate of observing others manipulating the box was arc sin-square root transformed to calculate a Linear Mixed Model (LMM).

We also recorded whether individuals observed others, that is, whether their head turned in the direction of the boxes while another individual was manipulating the box.

To assess the influence of kinship or social bonds on observing other individuals manipulating the box, the rate of observations (number of scans individuals spent observing others/total observation time) a given individual spent watching each other individual manipulating the box was calculated.

Scrounging was not influenced by age, sex or success in manipulating the boxes.

Since there was no relationship between scrounging and success in manipulating the boxes, redfronted lemurs appear to get access to the rewards rather opportunistically by either manipulating the boxes or scrounging.

In five of the six groups, juveniles or subadults were the first individuals to manipulate the box successfully (Tab. S1).

A frame (70×70 cm) was placed near the front end of the box, to reduce the number of animals that could manipulate the box at the same time.

Nearly half of the subjects who actually manipulated the box successfully learned to perform the task in this field setting.