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Mammalian Play: Training for the Unexpected
TLDR
The "training for the unexpected" hypothesis can account for some previously puzzling kinematic, structural, motivational, emotional, cognitive, social, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic aspects of play and may also account for a diversity of individual methods for coping with unexpected misfortunes.
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Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids
Actions called play signals have evolved in many species in which social play has been observed. Despite there being only few empirical demonstrations, it generally is accepted that play signals are…
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Social play and play-soliciting by infant canids
The development of social interaction was studied in infant coyotes, beagles, and wolves. In this paper, social play behavior is discussed. Social play may be characterized in a number of ways: (i)…
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Social Play Behaviour: Cooperation, Fairness, Trust, and the Evolution of Morality
People often wonder if some nonhuman animal beings (hereafter animals) have codes of social conduct that regulate their behaviour in terms of what is permissible and what is not permissible during…
Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation
TLDR
This work examines how establishing a commitment to compassion could reorient conservation in more ethically expansive directions that incorporate recognition of the intrinsic value of wildlife, the sentience of nonhuman animals, and the values of novel ecosystems, introduced species, and their members.
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Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
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It is revealed that animals exhibit a broad repertoire of moral behaviors, including fairness, empathy, trust, and reciprocity, and there is no moral gap between humans and other species.
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Social Ecology and Behavior of Coyotes
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Coyote ( Canis latrans )
Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives
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The evolutionary origins of play revisited, and glimpses into the structure and function of mammalian playfulness in the Macropodoidea, are explored.
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Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures
depression, and dogs happiness and dejection? People disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animal beings (hereafter animals), especially concerning the question of whether any animals…
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