Sentence examples for nesting motivation from inspiring English sources

Egg location can be used to determine the nests that hens prefer, but it does not indicate whether the design of that nest satisfies a hen's nesting motivation.

Further behavioural research will be able to determine how best to satisfy nesting motivation of hens housed in large furnished cages.

CRS-exposed animals showed significantly decreased motivation in nest building as determined by incorporation of less nestlet material, but phenserine treatment led to a significant improvement [ANOVA F2,21 = 11.00, P = 0.0001; Newman-Keuls Multiple Comparisons for Control vs CRS P < 0.001, for Control vs CRS/Phenserine P < 0.05 and for CRS versus CRS/Phenserine P < 0.05].

CRS-exposed animals also show lack of motivation in a nest-building paradigm [ 35, 36] and decreases in home-cage exploratory behaviors.

Using this technique, we found that neural circuitry involved in motor sequencing, social behavior, reward and motivation were active during nesting.

Pleasure at the mall satisfies survival motivations based on gathering and nesting.

To assess differences in primary and secondary outcome variables, linear mixed model analyses will be run on accelerometer counts, motivation and basic needs satisfaction, with students nested within teachers as a random effect.

Positive correlations were identified between the preference a female developed for the song-paired chamber and female nesting and dominance behaviors observed prior to conditioning (indices of the motivation to breed).

We next looked at the effect of phenserine on the motivation levels of CRS-exposed animals in a nest-building paradigm.

ACO is a biological motivation of ants to locate the shortest path between the nest and food.

Even response bias can be avoided by nesting the TTP questions within a more general population survey, thus decoupling survey nonresponse from differential fertility or other motivation that would convert low response rates to response bias (Joffe 2000).