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Studies of the Behavioral Sequences: The Neuroethological Morphology Concept Crossing Ethology and Functional Morphology

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral sequences analysis is a relevant method for quantifying the behavioral repertoire of animals to respond to the classical Tinbergen’s four questions. Research in ethology and functional morphology intercepts at the level of analysis of behaviors through the recording and in...

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Autores principales: Bels, Vincent L., Pallandre, Jean-Pierre, Pelle, Eric, Kirchhoff, Florence
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9179564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35681801
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12111336
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral sequences analysis is a relevant method for quantifying the behavioral repertoire of animals to respond to the classical Tinbergen’s four questions. Research in ethology and functional morphology intercepts at the level of analysis of behaviors through the recording and interpretation of data from of movement sequence studies with various types of imaging and sensor systems. We propose the concept of Neuroethological morphology to build a holistic framework for understanding animal behavior. This concept integrates ethology (including behavioral ecology and neuroethology) with functional morphology (including biomechanics and physics) to provide a heuristic approach in behavioral biology. ABSTRACT: Postures and movements have been one of the major modes of human expression for understanding and depicting organisms in their environment. In ethology, behavioral sequence analysis is a relevant method to describe animal behavior and to answer Tinbergen’s four questions testing the causes of development, mechanism, adaptation, and evolution of behaviors. In functional morphology (and in biomechanics), the analysis of behavioral sequences establishes the motor pattern and opens the discussion on the links between “form” and “function”. We propose here the concept of neuroethological morphology in order to build a holistic framework for understanding animal behavior. This concept integrates ethology with functional morphology, and physics. Over the past hundred years, parallel developments in both disciplines have been rooted in the study of the sequential organization of animal behavior. This concept allows for testing genetic, epigenetic, and evo-devo predictions of phenotypic traits between structures, performances, behavior, and fitness in response to environmental constraints. Based on a review of the literature, we illustrate this concept with two behavioral cases: (i) capture behavior in squamates, and (ii) the ritualistic throat display in lizards.
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spelling pubmed-91795642022-06-10 Studies of the Behavioral Sequences: The Neuroethological Morphology Concept Crossing Ethology and Functional Morphology Bels, Vincent L. Pallandre, Jean-Pierre Pelle, Eric Kirchhoff, Florence Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: Behavioral sequences analysis is a relevant method for quantifying the behavioral repertoire of animals to respond to the classical Tinbergen’s four questions. Research in ethology and functional morphology intercepts at the level of analysis of behaviors through the recording and interpretation of data from of movement sequence studies with various types of imaging and sensor systems. We propose the concept of Neuroethological morphology to build a holistic framework for understanding animal behavior. This concept integrates ethology (including behavioral ecology and neuroethology) with functional morphology (including biomechanics and physics) to provide a heuristic approach in behavioral biology. ABSTRACT: Postures and movements have been one of the major modes of human expression for understanding and depicting organisms in their environment. In ethology, behavioral sequence analysis is a relevant method to describe animal behavior and to answer Tinbergen’s four questions testing the causes of development, mechanism, adaptation, and evolution of behaviors. In functional morphology (and in biomechanics), the analysis of behavioral sequences establishes the motor pattern and opens the discussion on the links between “form” and “function”. We propose here the concept of neuroethological morphology in order to build a holistic framework for understanding animal behavior. This concept integrates ethology with functional morphology, and physics. Over the past hundred years, parallel developments in both disciplines have been rooted in the study of the sequential organization of animal behavior. This concept allows for testing genetic, epigenetic, and evo-devo predictions of phenotypic traits between structures, performances, behavior, and fitness in response to environmental constraints. Based on a review of the literature, we illustrate this concept with two behavioral cases: (i) capture behavior in squamates, and (ii) the ritualistic throat display in lizards. MDPI 2022-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9179564/ /pubmed/35681801 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12111336 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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