PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nest-building material removing tool that can keep a nest-building material from scattering or falling during removal and transfer of a nest.FUKUDA HAYATO福田 隼人TSUKAMOTO TAKASHI塚本 高史YOSHITOMI KOICHI吉富 公一HARADA KENJI原田 健治KAWAKAMI YUTAKA川神 豊...
;SOLUTION: This housing tool 1 for nest building materials is obtained by supporting the base ends of a pair of bars 6 and 7 on the tip of a operating rod 2 composed of an insulating material, extending the pair of bars 6 and 7 so as to enable the mutual spreading of respective tips...
Such a small amount of oral secretion used for nest building is considered to be associated with their social organization (division of labor) and nest material. This study hypothesized that the amounts of oral secretion used for nest building are determined by an interaction among social ...
Nest material, nitrogen and amino acid composition of nests were examined in a New World swarm-founding polistine wasp, Polybia paulista. This wasp used minute vegetable chips, which were a dominant material, plant hairs, and mud and/or inorganic particles as nest building materials. A SEM obse...
When a naïve virgin female mouse is exposed to an inaccessible litter so that it perceives the odour and the ultrasounds from the pups, its nest-building behaviour undergoes changes that are different from changes occurring in a control condition providing exposure to an inaccessible adult female...
then experience of building should not have changed our zebra finches' choice of nest material. That this experience made a (big) difference shows that, contrary to popular belief,birdscan learn which building materials work best, much as you or I might learn what materials or tools to use ...
low-tech strategies were employed to quantify spontaneous nest building. The cages were large—up to 6feetin diameter—and had hard, solid floors and walls. The nesting material was 0.5×4 inch strips of crêpe paper, which was found superior to fabric, string or other materials. The strips...
Nest building is a taxonomically widespread behaviour that consists of the construction of a suitable receptacle with collected materials for the incubation of eggs and sometimes for the raising of offspring. The use of specific nest materials has important fitness consequences for avian parents and of...
Thirdly, common urban anthropogenic materials such as plastic and string can be harder to break or isolate as nesting material compared with natural materials (e.g., grass, moss), but we know very little about their manipulation by, and their costs (e.g., increased nest detectability by para...
The timing of the onset of maternal-related nest building in American mink is unknown, and it is expected that farmed mink are highly motivated to perform nest building during times with restricted access to nesting material on mink farms. Not fulfilled motivations due to thwarting can lead to ...