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Interventional Cardiology

Behaviour Of Mammals

 The most noticeable behavioral characteristic of mammals is their learning ability. Compared with other animals, mammals can learn faster, learn more, they can even remember more and show more insight. Correlated with these abilities is that the possession of well developed sense organs, particularly the distance receptors concerned with olfaction, hearing and vision. These make it possible for behavior to take under consideration and to be adapted to, an enlarged world, not limited to the objects in touch with or very on the brink of the animal. There are mammal species that exhibit nearly every sort of lifestyle, including fossorial, aquatic, terrestrial, and arboreal lifestyles. Locomotion styles also are diverse: mammals may swim, run, bound, fly, glide, burrow, or climb as a way of moving throughout their environment. Adaptive behavioural solutions to recurrent, predictable environmental and social problems should therefore be favoured by selection, resulting in robust, species-specific behaviour patterns. Thus, optimal behavioural rules can evolve, leading to an intraspecific reduction in behavioural options. Mammals are an excellent taxon in which to investigate constraints and flexibility in social behaviour because they show an extremely broad range of social systems, along with equivalent variation in social complexity, behavioural flexibility, brain size and cognitive abilities.  

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