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Understanding animal behavior as a product of natural selection sometimes result in an underestimation of the animal's adaptability: lower animals with poor mental capabilities are usually considered to simply exhibit innate behavioral patterns. Self-organized behavior may exhibit both stability of certain behavioral patterns and flexibility in adopting those patterns. Thus, the self-organization processes of starfish arm and tube feet movements are investigated, by observing obstacle avoidance behavior and tube feet of moving starfish. As starfish have no central nervous systems, their behaviors are the result of certain self-organization processes. Starfish have hierarchically constructed motor organs consisting of arms and tube feet. The collective behavior of the tube feet does not function only as simple fluctuations in the arms' coordination. As a result, starfish seem to exhibit more versatile behavioral changes than expected from the original model of a self-organized behavior.
本文言語 | English |
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ページ(範囲) | 107-115 |
ページ数 | 9 |
ジャーナル | BioSystems |
巻 | 82 |
号 | 2 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | Published - 2005 11月 |
外部発表 | はい |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 統計学および確率
- モデリングとシミュレーション
- 生化学、遺伝学、分子生物学(全般)
- 応用数学