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Just like people have fingerprints, animals leave footprints behind that make it easy to identify what type of animal has been around even if the creature is nowhere in sight.
Luis von Ahn developed the ESP Game, [2] a game in which two people were simultaneously given an image, with no way to communicate, other than knowing the matching label for each picture or the pass signal. The ESP Game had been licensed by Google in the form of the Google Image Labeler and launched this service, as a beta on August 31, 2006.
Test your knowledge on all things zoology with these animal trivia questions about cats, dogs, fish, zoo animals and insects perfect for kids and adults. 100 animal trivia questions that will make ...
Matching games are games that require players to match similar elements. Participants need to find a match for a word, picture, tile or card. For example, students place 30 word cards; composed of 15 pairs, face down in random order. Each person turns over two cards at a time, with the goal of turning over a matching pair, by using their memory.
Researchers use variation on humpback whale flukes to identify and track the animals. Photo-identification is a technique used to identify and track individuals of a wild animal study population over time. It relies on capturing photographs of distinctive characteristics such as skin or pelage patterns or scars from the
Delayed response tasks are often used to study short-term memory in animals. Introduced by Hunter (1913), a typical delayed response task presents an animal with a stimulus such as colored light, and after a short time interval the animal chooses among alternatives that match the stimulus, or are related to the stimulus in some other way.
Animal colouration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Some animals are brightly coloured, while others are hard to see. In some species, such as the peafowl, the male has strong patterns, conspicuous colours and is iridescent, while the female is far less visible.
Some fish also match mammals and birds in the executive functioning capability of inhibitory motor control. [5] Furthermore, some fish also have an oxytocin-enabled ability to sense another's fish's fear. Australian biologist Culum Brown has argued that fish may give the appearance of being less intelligent than they are due to differences ...