The behavior of moose at natural mineral springs in Quebec

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Couturier ◽  
Cyrille Barrette
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Alces Alces ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Mineral Springs ◽  
Lactating Females ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Wildlife Reserve

The Matane Wildlife Reserve (48°40′ N, 66°55′ W) is the only location in Quebec known to have mineral springs. Their water is rich in sodium (172.5 ± 97.1 ppm, n = 17 vs. 3.6 ± 2.6 ppm, n = 10, in streams flowing nearby) and other minerals. We observed moose (Alces alces) there for a total of 11 months over three summers. Maximal use of the springs occurred in early July. Moose visited springs mostly around sunrise and sunset, spending a mean (± SD) of 24.3 ± 26 min (n = 691) at the springs, 20.7% ± 17% of which was spent drinking, almost always right at the actual spring (about 0.1 m2). Calves started visiting springs in late June, always with their mothers, but rarely drank before September. Moose interacted aggressively, particularly to displace one another from the small springs. Lactating females chased all other moose away when they were accompanied by their calves. Such females spent much less time drinking when their calves were present than when they visited a spring alone. Moose usually urinated at a spring, but almost never on the actual spring itself, and most often close to the end of a visit. Of 360 urinations, 32.2% were hock urinations. Mineral springs seem to be important, although incidental, social gathering places, where the hunger for salt forces moose to have a more intense social life than their otherwise solitary habits allow.

scholarly journals Activity of moose and white-tailed deer at mineral springs

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 1991-2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Fraser ◽  
H. Hristienko
Keyword(s):  
Odocoileus Virginianus ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Alces Alces ◽  
Spring Phenology ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Mineral Springs ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Leaf Flush

Activity of moose (Alces alces) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was studied at two natural mineral springs (licks) in Ontario during the springtime and summer of 1977 to 1980. Most adult moose appeared to use a lick during a single 1- to 5-day period in a year; some returned at intervals during the season; and all seemed drawn principally by the mineral-rich water. Some young moose remained in the lick vicinity for 3 weeks or more, and often wandered in and out of the licks, grazing herbage as well as drinking. This suggested a social as well as a nutritional attraction for young moose. Activity of both moose and deer increased after leaf flush. Adult male moose used licks most heavily in late May and early June, adult females in middle and late June. Use by young animals was more variable, but all moose activity declined in late June when aquatic feeding became common. Deer continued to use licks heavily until mid-July. Evidently the Na hunger that motivates lick use is related to spring phenology and wanes during the summer. Social and other behaviour seen at licks is described.

scholarly journals Carbon-Dioxide Thermo-Saline Springs in the Light of Modern Research

1928 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Schott
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Peripheral Circulation ◽  
Complex Compounds ◽  
Plain Water ◽  
Peripheral Blood Flow ◽  
Natural Mineral ◽  
Mineral Springs ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Saline Springs ◽  
The Difference

Investigations on the influence of natural Nauheim standing and running effervescent CO2 thermo-saline baths on the subcutaneous CO2 and O2 tension in gas under the skin in rabbits showed a decrease of the CO2 tension in all experiments. The O2 tension increased in 50 per cent. of the experiments, in the others it remained unaffected. The results are interpreted as due to an increase in ventilation and an increase in peripheral blood-flow, the peripheral blood-vessels being dilated. Plain water baths of the same temperature and duration did not show this effect on the peripheral circulation, both CO2 and O2 tension being decreased after the bath. The relations between these researches and other investigations on the effect of natural thermo-saline baths are discussed as well as the difference between the effect of natural and artificial baths. The special curative properties of fresh natural mineral springs are in some way connected with the composition of the salts as complex compounds and their molecular structure. These complex compounds being decomposed by heat, light or access of air, the special activity is lost. The presence of the salts as complex compounds in fresh natural mineral springs is supposed to be due to the special geological conditions under which these compounds are formed.

scholarly journals Smartphones distract parents from cultivating feelings of connection when spending time with their children

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1619-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostadin Kushlev ◽  
Elizabeth W. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
The People ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Museum Study ◽  
The U.S

In the U.S., 95% of smartphone users admit to having used their smartphones during their latest social gathering. Although smartphones are designed to connect us with others, such smartphone use may create a source of distraction that disconnects us from the people in our immediate social environment. Focusing on one fundamental social relationship—between parents and their children—we examined whether smartphones made parents feel distracted, thereby undermining key benefits parents reap when spending time with their children. Ina field experiment at a science museum (Study 1), we randomly assigned parents to use their phones frequently or infrequently. Frequent phone use led parents to feel more distracted, which in turn impaired feelings of social connection and the meaning that parents derived when spending time with their children. In an additional weeklong diary study (Study 2), we found further evidence that smartphones can distract parents from reaping a sense of social connection when spending time with their children. These studies suggest that being constantly connected to the Internet may carry subtle costs for the fabric of social life.

scholarly journals “Liberate!” – Republicans Are More Willing to Get Back to Social Life Because They Are Less Scared of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Briki ◽  
Lionel Dagot
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
The Impact

Grounded in the COVID-19 pandemic context in the United States, the study aimed at examining whether political ideology and governor political belongingness could influence perceived threat of SARS-CoV-2 virus and perceived gathering acceptability, and whether perceived threat of SARS-CoV-2 virus could serve as a covariate. Native Americans, being either Republican or Democrat, living in a state governed by either a Republican or a Democrat, read a scenario about a banned social gathering. Results revealed that: (a) perceived threat of SARS-CoV-2 virus was lower in Republicans than in Democrats, while perceived gathering acceptability was higher in Republicans than in Democrats; and (b) perceived threat of SARS-CoV-2 virus mostly accounted for the impact of Republican ideology on perceived gathering acceptability. This research provides evidence that, relative to Democrats, Republicans are more willing to get back to the normal social life because they are less scared of being contaminated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

scholarly journals An Impact Study Of Social Networking Websites On The Youth In Our Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Sumera Ishrat
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Social Networking Websites ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
Multistage Sampling

The study focused to evaluate the trend of usage of social networking websites among the youth of our society and explore its impacts on their personal, academic and social life. Multistage sampling was adopted to collect data from the youth studying in University of Karachi. The sample consisted of 121 randomly selected respondents. The findings of the study indicated that the respondents use social networking websites only for interacting purpose rather than enhancement of knowledge. Respondents admitted that they had bad experiences during this practice. In spite of the frequent usage of these websites respondents wanted to send proper time on their academic activities, social gathering and their hobbies as well. The study concluded that the youth should be cautious in uploading their personal information on these websites. Parents should engage their children in family events, share experiences and discussing their issues to minimize the usage of social networking. On the other hand Government should take precautionary measures to save the potential, skills and above all the future of nation’s youth.

A new member or an intruder: how do Sinai spiny mouse (Acomys dimidiatus) families respond to a male newcomer?

Behaviour ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 148 (8) ◽  
pp. 889-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Frynta ◽  
Barbora Cížková ◽  
Radim Šumbera
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Group Living ◽  
Spiny Mouse ◽  
Male Resident ◽  
Resident Male ◽  
Social Species ◽  
The Social ◽  
Focal Male ◽  
Lactating Females ◽  
Acomys Dimidiatus

AbstractRecruitment of unrelated individuals into a group plays an important role in the social life of the group living animals. The main goal of our study was to analyze the reactions of established, breeding families of the Sinai spiny mouse, Acomys dimidiatus (Muridae, Rodentia), a social species with precocial pups, to male newcomers in the presence and the absence of a breeding resident male. We compared the behaviour of family members of different sex or age to the presence of a new male. The number of non-aggressive and aggressive interactions with the focal male (resident/newcomer male) was recorded during three periods: before, during and one month after the addition of the newcomer. Only a few aggressive and/or non-aggressive types of contacts occurred before and one month after the addition of the new male. During the experiment, both types of contacts arose, but the results were highly variable. Increased aggressive behaviour of the family toward the intruder was explained mainly by the presence of pregnant or lactating females, which suggests that aggression towards a male newcomer is associated with the reproductive status of females. This phenomenon is most likely connected with the counter-infanticide strategy.

Choreography and Ceremony: The Artful Side of Action

Human Affairs ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy James
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Sudanese Refugees ◽  
Organizing Principles

Choreography and Ceremony: The Artful Side of Action"Actions" are normally thought of as taken by individuals. But to understand their quality, it is not enough to classify them from the perspective of individual psychology (rational vs. emotional, technical vs. artistic, etc.). We need to grasp their relation to those forms of collective life which have a historical existence independent of specific individual action (institutions, the conventions of social gathering, the organizing principles of games, architecture, music, ritual, etc.). This paper focuses on what characteristics such forms of collective life share, not what seems to separate them (eg. into sacred vs secular, technology vs creative art). The main features emphasized are their choreography, that is their enactment within commonly understood patterns of a spatial and temporal kind, as well as rules of interactive movement; and their ceremonial character, something which can be found in simple situations such as a conversation or a meal, though much more intensely in major religious ritual. A particularly resonant image for these enactments of social life is the dance. Because there is a ceremonial aspect to all social interaction, the paper argues that individual action, necessarily oriented to the social context, always has an "artful" side (however habitual or technical). The paper draws on the writings of Wittgenstein on action, and those of Collingwood on language and art, to shape the argument. Illustrations are provided of the "artful" employment of language (especially by actors on the stage), the "artful" side of material culture, and from the author's own ethnographic studies, the significance of dance among Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia.

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