Sentence examples for sequence of behaviour from inspiring English sources

Owners and intruders showed a similar consistent sequence of behaviour in relation to parasitism; however, aggression between females interrupted this behavioural sequence.

Female E. nassaui showed a highly consistent sequence of behaviour as they parasitised host eggs in the absence of conspecific competitors.

The sequence of behaviour necessary to retrieve the food was dictated by the depth of the food and tools within the tubes, with the most demanding condition requiring the use of three tools in a sequence ('Tertiary'; see Table 1 for an overview of all conditions).

There were several, intermixed conditions where the position of food and/or tools determined what sequence of behaviour was required for success: in one condition we required subjects to retrieve and use three tools in sequence, something never demonstrated in a non-human animal without specific training.

Therefore, we followed the guidance of Haccou & Meelis [ 15] and treated the sequence of behaviour patterns as a semi-Markov chain.

Exploration by wood mice – considered here as the combination of behaviours associated with movements around the experimental arena of more than 10 cm – is therefore not comprised of an entirely random sequence of behaviour patterns.

Robots are required to execute a sequence of behaviours, as if they were playing on a stage.

In line with previous studies, birds showed a consistent sequence of behaviours during LAPS: ataxia, loss of posture, clonic/tonic convulsions, leg paddling and motionless.

We found that spiders followed the same sequence of behaviours to repair damage to their webs and the repair significantly increased the effective web area following damage.

At mass spawning aggregations of giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) in the Upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia, a wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) was observed and recorded repeatedly catching, killing and preparing cuttlefish for consumption using a specific and ordered sequence of behaviours.

Inter-rater reliability of the video analyses was exceptionally high (94%) when comparing both the frequency and the sequence of behaviours coded within a one-second-tolerance interval.