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Homeostatic Motor Processes in Mammalian Interactions: A Choreography of Display

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The Eshkol-Wachmann movement notation is used to describe motor sequences in the interactions of both golden jackals (Canis aureus) and Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Motor behavior is rigorously described in terms of the elementary movements of limb segments. The same movements are described in four coordinate systems: in relation to the animal’s own body, in relation to the environment, in relation to a partner, and in relation to the topography of the contact point with the partner on the animal’s own body.

“All advances and flows, trembles and aspires”

R. A. Y. H. Kook, Orot Hakodesh

This paper is dedicated to my parents and to Michal. This study was supported by a Ford Foundation Grant B-9. The paper was written under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., and the Dept. of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada.

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Golani, I. (1976). Homeostatic Motor Processes in Mammalian Interactions: A Choreography of Display. In: Bateson, P.P.G., Klopfer, P.H. (eds) Perspectives in Ethology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7572-6_2

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