Sentence examples for stable behavioural from inspiring English sources

To determine whether the behavioural components underlying a male's stable behavioural type in the mating context are heritable and genetically correlated, we performed paternal half-sib crosses.

This showed a stable behavioural adaptation on a beach that has experienced a process of artificial stabilization of the dune through nourishment actions over a decade.

Based on these results we have concluded that either the differences between the housings were not large enough, or the length of the housing was not long enough, to induce stable behavioural differences detectable by the operant cognitive bias tests.

We do not know how long this contrast in behaviour would have persisted had we been able to continue testing for an even longer period of time, but further studies using similar designs and even longer test periods would have the power to confirm whether stable behavioural variation can be sustained between groups of monkeys, supported by social transmission.

This reinforcement process can lead to stable behavioural patterns, for example in the feeding position of great tit parents at the nest [42].

An initial horizontal spread of an innovation or a temporarily constrained learning opportunity (i.e. only push leads to a reward for a week) combined with subsequent habit formation could go a long way in explaining stable behavioural differences on the group level.

Current theoretical models discuss that differences in state in combination with state-dependent behaviour can explain stable differences in behavioural traits [ 54].

Stable polymorphism in behavioural strategy is maintained because no behavioural type is able to win more matings than the other two types, and mating success of a morph follows a rock-scissors-paper dynamic.

Our study was based on the definition of a temperament dimension as "a behavioural characteristic stable across situations and over time".

We found strong theoretical evidence that for stable and long-term behavioural changes it seems necessary to also develop activities aimed at changing distal social contexts surrounding the family, including neighbourhood and school factors, that is, the public domain.

Therefore, epigenetic mechanisms begin to emerge as mediators through which environment modulates neurogenesis with long-lasting and stable repercussions in several behavioural and cognitive domains.