Where human activities focus on livestock production, jaguars could shift their behaviour towards prey preferences from wildlife species to domestic livestock (Cavalcanti and Gese 2009, 2010).
Earlier, our research group published the finding 6 that women in menopausal transition shifted their behaviour in the other direction.
This proposed a model of behaviour change whereby consumption trends have a 'central tendency' 12 to result from individuals and groups shifting their behaviour and then these changes accumulating subsequently into long waves of gradual population-level effects as they spread via social networks and impact across society.
Main questions posed were: how did the Ps in the field trial experience trying to shift their transport behaviours? and what role did the bicycle designs play in the attempt to shift travel behaviour?
But instead of making fundamental shifts in their behaviour, they are giving into short-term fads, such as offering gluten-free items or removing ingredients deemed to be unhealthy.
Knowing what other people do can shift our behaviours in the right direction when it's done smartly.
In addition, applying more complex multilevel interventions would simultaneously aim to shift individual behaviours and the social norms around drinking.
If all this makes you think that Chicago is undergoing a kind of collective delusion brought on by those parasites that supposedly live in cat litter and embed themselves into the brain stems of their hosts, to slowly shift human behaviour over time in pro-cat ways, all we can observe is that it's not just Chicago, or cats.
What will help shift perceptions and behaviours, in addition to organisations updating their hiring policies, is talking more openly about how most of us organise our day around our responsibilities.
As a consequence, species are already shifting, expanding, disappearing, changing their behaviour and phenology, exploiting newly available food resources and abandoning scarcer ones.
