Social encounters produce different autonomic response between dominants and subordinates in crows.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies of behavioural physiology on animals have suggested the crucial role of peripherally physiological signals in eliciting arousal and emotion. Heart rate (HR) is one of the useful and critical signals to measure autonomic regulation as a physiological basis for arousal and emotion in response to biologically significant stimuli such as social encounter with conspecific individuals. However, our understanding of peripherally physiological response such as HRs and autonomic activities under social contexts of non-human animals is still limited, particularly in birds. Here, we examined the autonomic activity of behaving crows exposed to a dominant and a subordinate conspecific by using non-invasive electrocardiogram recording. We found different patterns of autonomic responses de

SUBMITTER: Takeda K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9579753 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature