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Slagsvold Group - A research group at the University of Oslo, animal behavior Norway. animal behavior Primary focus is on the study of animal behavior sexual imprinting animal behavior in small passerines.
The Arts of Deception - Mimicry and Camouflage - Article by Rhett Butler on camouflage as used by animals zoology and the three forms of mimicry utilized by both predator zoology and prey.
Flocker 1.1 - This free software quantifies and compares statistical measures of group biology size. It differentiates between outsiders\\' view (group size) versus insiders\\' biology view (crowding) measures, controls for the ties among data points biology in the latter case and handles biased
Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery - Current research at Hunter College, New York, concentrates biology on the zoology multiple sensory systems that fish use biology to detect moving and zoology sound-producing objects, including the biology gymnotiform fishes that use electricity to zoology communicate.
University of Los Andes Frog Research - Group working on frog behavior and ecophysiology at animal behavior Universidad zoology de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Conflict and Cooperation - Tamas Szekely provides a really short, illustrated guide to the animal behavior family life of birds.[PDF]
Dominance in Domestic Hen Triads - The role of individual differences and patterns of biology resolution in animal behavior the formation of dominance orders in biology domestic hen triads.
Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour - Research into brain function and behavior, communication and biology higher cognition zoology in animals as undertaken at the biology University of New England, zoology Australia.
Dolphin Institute - Dedicated to conservation of and education about dolphins animal behavior and whales. Research projects include dolphin echolocation.
ReefQuest - A comprehensive source of information on the biology biology of sharks zoology and rays including behavioral studies.
Essay: A Baboon’s Life - An essay written by Robert Sapolsky in 1996 biology on violence between male baboons, ageing and friendship.[PDF]
Bee Behavior - A project studying the behavior of bees as biology individuals and as a colony, including a live biology feed from a hive.
All About How Males Attract Female Birds - Describes research into the extent to which female birds choose their mates according to their vocal ability.
Animal Cognition Network - Provides links to current scientific literature in the zoology field of zoology animal cognition. Includes journal articles, reviews, zoology books and relevant websites.
Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds - Article by Stephanie Doucet and Robert Montgomerie on biology their research into the interrelationship between bower features, biology plumage coloration, and indicators of male quality in biology this species.
Movie Archives of Animal Behavior - An online animal behavior video database available in zoology various formats. zoology Most clips filmed in Japan.
Variation in Lekking Costs in Blackbuck - Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India examine the hypothesis that among lekking males of the species Antilope cervicapra, variations in lekking costs are related to differences in mating benefits. [PDF][PDF]
The Peripheral Auditory Characteristics of Noctuid Moths - Research by Dean Waters into the auditory systems zoology sensitive to animal behavior ultrasound possessed by these moths and zoology their ability to recognise animal behavior and respond to the zoology echolocation sounds emitted by bats.[PDF]
NPR: Animal Thought and Communication - Ira Flatow and guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys [Real Audio broadcast].
Wolf Behavior - Dedicated to the general public education of the biology behavioral habits animal behavior of the wolf. Includes data on biology reproduction and diet.
Social Behaviour of African Wild Dogs - Katherine Green at the University of Sheffield, England, examines how the social behavior of the African wild dog is contributing to its high risk of extinction.[PDF]
Personality Gene Makes Songbirds Curious - Max Planck scientists find evidence for an association animal behavior between gene variants and exploratory behavior in great animal behavior tits.[PDF]
Cognitive Architecture of a Mini-brain: The Honeybee - Article by Randolf Menzel and Martin Giurfa examining zoology the extent animal behavior to which adaptive behaviour in honeybees zoology exceeds elementary forms of animal behavior learning, and identifying the zoology neural mechanisms involved.[PDF]
Ontologies for Ethology - Peter E. Midford\\'s research in coding animal behavior zoology descriptions, particularly zoology ethograms using ontology.
Dominance in Crayfish. - Article from the Journal of Neuroscience on patterns biology of behavior, biology including the activation of neural circuits, biology during the formation of biology a dominance hierarchy in biology crayfish.
Equine and Animal Cognition Reference Database - A literature database for researchers in the field animal behavior of biology animal cognition and equine science.
The Dwarf Mongoose: Social Cooperation - Article discussing the benefit for dwarf mongooses of zoology living in zoology a cohesive group. Also describes their zoology symbiotic cooperation with hornbills zoology in Kenya.
Untangling the Tangle-Web: Web Construction Behavior of the Comb-Footed Spider - Suresh Benjamin and Samuel Zschokke observed the behavior involved in the construction of a three dimensional, irregular web.[PDF]
Phenology - Animal activity and growth responses to seasonal climatic changes. Discussion zoology of phenology data on animal cycles of life.
Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University - Current research includes the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal zoology behavior, avian behavioral ecology, and what behaviors help an animal zoology to adapt to its environment.
Ethology - Tables of contents, contacts and subscription information from animal behavior this journal by Blackwell Publishing.
Fongoli Chimps - Article from the National Geographic Magazine on how the chimpanzees zoology on the savannas of Senegal are hunting bush babies with zoology spearlike sticks.
Bear Center Conducts Hibernation Study - Article by Lynne L Rogers who has studied black bear behavior and ecology in northeastern Minnesota since 1969.
Group Mobbing Behaviour and Nest Defence - Outlines research carried out by Katheryn E Arnold animal behavior using animal behavior co-operative breeding Noisy Miners (Manorina melanocephala) in animal behavior Australia on animal behavior whether mobbing behavior assisted reproductive success.[PDF]
Bird Behavior - Bird Behavior is an international and interdisciplinary journal zoology that publishes research on avian behavior, including the zoology areas of ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, and zoology behavioral neuroscience.
A Century of Generalization - This article aims to organise existing data to zoology test the theory that, when a behavior has zoology been established in response to a certain stimulus, zoology novel stimuli resembling the first will usually elicit zoology the same response.[PDF]
Brood Parasitism - This essay describes the behavior of birds that lay their animal behavior eggs in the nest of another species, with links to animal behavior other essays covering similar topics.
Animal Behavior Lab - Overview of current research at Macquarie University, Australia, zoology with detailed material on each project.
Project Apis dorsata - Provides information on a research project in Nepal to study biology the communication and defense behaviour of the Asian Giant Honeybee, biology Apis dorsata.
Sexual Conflict, Ecology and Breeding Systems in Shorebirds - Paper by Tamas Szekely, Gavin Thomas and Innes animal behavior Cuthill examining the different reproductive payoffs for male animal behavior and female birds of adopting various diverse breeding animal behavior systems.[PDF]
Wanted: A Reason to Divorce - Max Planck scientists find evidence that marriage crises in blue biology tits are probably caused by other females.[PDF]
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Animal Architecture - Dr Michael Hansell has built up an extensive zoology collection of animal behavior animal artefacts, mainly bird and insect zoology nests but also other animal behavior fascinating items.
Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs - Describes the wolf-pack social order as it occurs zoology in nature, zoology discusses the alpha concept and social zoology dominance and submission, and zoology presents data on the zoology precise relationships among members in free-living zoology packs.
Overview of Our Research on the Variable Field Cricket - At the Wagner Laboratory at the University of zoology Nebraska, research is being undertaken on the evolution zoology of male singing behavior and female song preferences zoology in the variable field cricket
Fish Behaviour - Describes certain behaviors that can indicate pain in biology fish and the behavioral evidence for the perception biology of pain by fish.
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology - Austrian organization that investigates major unsolved problems in zoology behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry - Article by James Mallet in which he discusses biology whether the animal behavior unpalatable species that copy one another biology for their mutual benefit animal behavior evolved together.[PDF]
Kohler’s Research on the Mentality of Apes - Excerpt from a book by Gould and Gould discussing the tests that Kohler set the chimpanzees he was marooned with during the First World War.
Baboon and Impala Together - Discusses how baboons and impala interact. Offers scientific biology observations and animal behavior images.
Warning Colour and Mimicry - Mimicry is a great example of evolution by animal behavior natural selection. Outline of a lecture on the animal behavior subject from the Evolutionary Genetics course at University animal behavior College, London.
The Effect of Light on the Behaviour and Well Being of Marine Fish - Article by J Charles Delbeek on the activities of fish biology at varying levels of light and the very important role biology light plays in their lives.
Partnership in Birds - Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and biology why such divorces occur.[PDF]
Too Mellow for our Predatory World - Article from the Max Planck Society on research animal behavior examining flexibility in flight behavior in marine iguanas animal behavior on the Galapagos Islands.[PDF]
Avian Visual Cognition - This multimedia cyberbook provides a comprehensive survey of animal behavior this zoology area of comparative research with chapters by animal behavior top international zoology scientists.
Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior - In this paper, Marc Bekoff attempts to demonstrate animal behavior the biology importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing animal behavior the understanding biology of animal cognition.
Figs and Fig Wasps - An example of mutualism, fig wasps only live animal behavior for zoology a few days but manage to perform animal behavior their amazing zoology task of finding and pollinating the animal behavior flowers that are zoology hidden deep inside the fig.
The Gordon Lab - A long-term study of ant colony behavior, organization biology and ecology animal behavior undertaken by Deborah Gordon and her biology colleagues at Stanford University.
Behaviour: Altruism - Article discussing how helping another member of the animal behavior same zoology species may have benefits for the donor.
Historical Information about Animal Cognition - A brief survey of important scientists in the biology history of zoology the study of animal behavior.
Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior - Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and zoology instincts.
Cospeciation and Rates of Evolution in Lice and Birds: a Molecular Approach - How old is the association between a given biology parasite and zoology its host? Rod Page at the biology University of Glasgow tries zoology to answer this question.
Behavioural and Cognitive Influences of Kairomones on an Araneophagic Jumping Spider - Jackson, Clark and Harland researched the factors influencing the predatory biology habits of the jumping spider, Portia fimbriata, which eats other biology spiders.[PDF]
About Gender: Ethology - An introduction to animal reproduction, maternal strategies, living zoology in groups, animal behavior dominance and male behavior. The rest zoology of the site deals animal behavior with human gender roles, zoology variance and identity.
Oklahoma University Behavioral Neuroscience - Research in the OU Zoology Department addresses major zoology biological questions animal behavior through studies of molecules, cells, organisms, zoology and ecosystems to uncover animal behavior mechanisms of physiology, development, zoology behavior, and evolution.
The Centre for Avian Cognition - Research at the University of Nebraska covering a broad range of behavioral and cognitive studies on birds, each combining psychological and biological perspectives.
Why Grandmothers? - Article by Devorah Bennu examining whether grandmothers play animal behavior any part in the cooperative rearing of young animal behavior birds.
The Pherobase - A searchable database of insect pheromones and semiochemicals, now covering animal behavior over 7000 species of insect.
Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism - Temple Grandin discusses his views on animal consciousness, using comparisons biology from his experience with autism, citing scientific evidence on other biology neurological disorders which affect consciousness.
The Finch Self-Medication Website - Birds and animals have often been seen using zoology plants, soil, biology insects or fungi as \\'medicines\\'. William zoology Astor explains his findings biology on this remarkable ability zoology with regard to Estrildid finches.
The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies - Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and zoology discussing the biology extent to which hoverflies succeed in zoology mimicing bees, wasps and biology bumblebees.[PDF]
Animal Behaviour - Daniel Mills and Gill Sheppard describe an evolutionary biology approach to zoology the analysis, assessment and treatment of biology behavior problems.
Processing Towards Life - L Charles Birch discusses self-organisation as exampled by termites, ants animal behavior and slime moulds, where patterns of behavior are determined, not animal behavior by some centralised authority, but by local interactions about decentralised animal behavior components
Robot Modelling of Insect Proto-Cognition - D J Smith’s thesis concerns a bio-robotic investigation zoology of the zoology elementary forms of cognition that might zoology be present in small zoology brains, specifically insect brains.[PDF]
Behaviour - Article from the BBC Science and Nature series on why animal behavior mammals have developed such complex social strategies.
Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids - Paper by Marc Bekoff discussing the use by zoology animals of specific signals primarily to initiate or zoology maintain social play.
Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology - Article from Wikibooks explaining that, by learning how the senses gather information, a better understanding of behavior is gained.
Cognitive Ecology: A Field of Substance? - Article arguing that a greater insight into behaviors biology such as animal orientation, song learning, mate choice biology and foraging is achieved by tackling the subject biology from more than one starting point.[PDF]
Behaviour: Looking after Relatives - Article discussing the reasons behind actions such as a female molerat working to help raise her mother's children.
Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne - Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses zoology on the behavioral ecology of passerines.
World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations - BBC\\'s Natural History Unit gathers information from correspondents, zoology scientists and zoology amateur naturalists to monitor migrating mammals, zoology birds and insects as zoology they travel.
Fauna Communications Research - Institute that researches bioacoustics and animal communication, especially zoology of endangered species.
Universal Parasitism and the Co-evolution of Extended Phenotypes - Article by Richard Dawkins argues that we should zoology ask “Which animal is benefiting from this behavior?” zoology rather than asking “In what way is this zoology animal benefiting from this behavior?” Parasites are used zoology to illustrate this thesis.
Unfaithful Songbirds Increase Offspring Fitness - Article from the Max Planck Society on research zoology showing that female promiscuity can reduce the negative zoology consequences of inbreeding in socially monogamous birds.[PDF]
Fish and Shrimp Interactions - Details of research carried out by the Smithsonian zoology Environmental Research biology Center on the behavior of fish zoology with varying numbers of biology prey species and fish zoology densities.
Stress and the City: Urban Birds Keep Cool - Ornithologists at the Max Planck Society demonstrate that animal behavior urban birds are more resistant to acute stress animal behavior than forest dwelling birds.[PDF]
Behavioral Ecology Research Group - Research on the evolution of social systems and social learning biology at the University of Queensland, Australia.
The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes - Noel Egenter outlines his research into the ability animal behavior of apes to weave branches into a stable animal behavior construction and whether this requires a definite learning animal behavior process.
Pelican Lagoon Research Centre - This centre in Australia provides habitats for long biology term field studies, especially on monotremes, free from biology the impact of introduced species.
Hummingbirds and Torpor - Article by Devorah Bennu on the strategy used animal behavior by hummingbirds to conserve energy in order to animal behavior survive long cold nights.
A Reproductive Dictatorship: Naked Mole-rats - The eusocial naked mole-rat is the mammalian equivalent animal behavior of a social insect. This article discusses how animal behavior and why the dominant queen and the infertile animal behavior workers cooperate for the benefit of the whole animal behavior colony.
Mammalian Hibernation - Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep zoology and torpor.
Animal Navigation Group - Provides an e-mail animal forum and disseminates news on animal animal behavior navigation, orientation and migration through its newsletter and conferences.
The Ryan Lab - Situated at the University of Texas, this lab is addressing zoology questions concerning the evolution and function of animal behavior. Most zoology of the work centers on frogs and fish.
Cophylogeny between Pocket Gophers and Chewing Lice - Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation.[PDF]
Animal Behavior - Information from McMaster University, Canada on the research zoology program and undergraduate courses available.
Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Research Group. - The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada examines how an zoology understanding of the behavior of domesticated animals and poultry can zoology contribute to their welfare.
Elephant Corner: Mentality, Cognition and Behavior of Elephants - Moti Nissani details his research into elephant behavior, cognition and biology senses, with sounds and video clips.
Research Projects in the Mammal Research Unit - Details of the current research projects being undertaken at the zoology Mammal Research Unit at Bristol University, England.
Deep-sea Octocorals as Homes for Other Species - Researchers at the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, examine the commensal relationships of octocorals with brittle stars and marine scale worms.
Wolf and Wildlife Studies - Discusses ongoing field research concerning the behavioral habits animal behavior of zoology the Fishtrap wolf pack in northwest Montana.
Cooperative Breeding in Birds: a Comparative Test of the Life History Hypothesis - Kathryn Arnold and Ian Owens test the hypothesis that cooperative animal behavior breeding tends to occur in species with low annual mortality animal behavior because this leads to overcrowded populations.[PDF]
Reading: Manning and Dawkins, Animal Behavior - Notes on Chapters 2 to 7 of this book covering animal behavior aspects of communication, learning, memory, evolution and social organisation.
Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds - Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding animal behavior the evolution of the complex sexual male displays animal behavior in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Arachnology - Dr George Uetz at the University of Illinois biology is leading animal behavior research into colonial web-building spiders, communication biology in wolf spiders and animal behavior other aspects of arachnid biology behavior.
Research Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology (BPERC) - BPERC aims to investigate behavioral and physiological adaptations of native Australian mammals and birds living in various habitats and the impact of environmental change on them.
Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates - C M Heyes revisits the question asked by Premack and Woodruff, "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" This question dominates the study of both social behavior in nonhuman primates and cognitive development in children.
Behaviour: A Journey to the Bottom of the World - Penguins can demonstrate complex behavioral patterns including general, biology aggressive and sexual behaviors.
Chimpanzee Cultures - A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors.
Mammal Research at JCU - Researchers at James Cook University are studying the biology life histories animal behavior of several endangered Australian marsupials.
EcoBirds: Anting - Article discussing the strange behavior adopted by some birds in biology using ants in preening or in some instances, lying down biology among ants.
How Locusts Decide it is Time to Swarm - Article from the New Scientist discussing the factors biology that turn zoology a relatively harmless cloud of insects biology into a devastating plague.
Trade-offs Between Extraterritorial Prospecting and Helping in a Cooperative Mammal - Researchers at Cambridge University investigated whether male meerkats trade off their cooperative contributions to pup feeding against searching for mating and dispersal opportunities.[PDF]
The European Union for Bird Ringing - EURING coordinates bird ringing throughout Europe and promotes animal behavior research needed to inform the conservation and scientific animal behavior understanding of wild birds.
Cooperative Breeding - Communal breeding occurs when more than two birds biology of the biology same species provide care in rearing biology the young from one biology nest.
Antipredator Adaptations: Crypsis - Notes, with photographs, on the four cryptic strategies zoology employed by biology animals to blend in with their zoology background and avoid detection.
Nests and Nest-Building in Birds - Outlines a study of the Red Bishop, a colony breeding weaverbird from sub-Saharan Africa, and examines aspects of male nest-building behavior and resulting male reproductive success.[PDF]
Group Predation of Lions - An investigation into the visual cues required to coordinate the animal behavior complex cooperative behavior involved in hunting.[PDF]
Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois - Research in Gene E. Robinson\\'s lab that studies animal behavior the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.
Article: Bee Behavior - By studying bees as individuals and as a zoology colony, Stephen animal behavior Taber researches how their behavior may zoology be changed to our animal behavior benefit. The site also zoology provides a sourcebook for beekeeping.
Long-distance Land Bird Migration - This article discusses the reasons for migration, its biology advantages and disadvantages, and the different patterns of biology migration adopted by different bird groups.
Chelonian Research Foundation - This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research zoology and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and zoology Biology.
Describing Social Insect Behaviour Using Process Algebra - Chris Tofts at University College Swansea, Wales, presents animal behavior robust zoology algorithms that describe three different ant behaviours: animal behavior synchrony, task zoology allocation and sorting[PDF]
Animal Cognition - Researchers at Edinburgh University are using both evolutionary biology and behavioral animal behavior approaches to try to understand the biology factors that shape animal animal behavior cognitive abilities.

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