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Animal Navigation Group Open in a new windowLink Details
- Provides an e-mail animal forum and disseminates news on animal navigation, orientation and migration through its newsletter and conferences.
- http://www.rin.org.uk/sigs-branches/animal/animal-navigation-group

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The Centre for Avian Cognition Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research at the University of Nebraska covering a broad range of behavioral and cognitive studies on birds, each combining psychological and biological perspectives.
- http://bsweb.unl.edu/avcog

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Behavioural and Cognitive Influences of Kairomones on an Araneophagic Jumping Spider Open in a new windowLink Details
- Jackson, Clark and Harland researched the factors influencing the predatory habits of the jumping spider, Portia fimbriata, which eats other spiders.
- http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/ccnr/Papers/Downloads/Jackson_Behav2002.pdf

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Nests and Nest-Building in Birds Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2005/metada05/pdf/introduction.pdf

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Group Mobbing Behaviour and Nest Defence Open in a new windowLink Details
- Outlines research carried out by Katheryn E Arnold using co-operative breeding Noisy Miners (Manorina melanocephala) in Australia on whether mobbing behavior assisted reproductive success.
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/ethology.pdf

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How Locusts Decide it is Time to Swarm Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article from the New Scientist discussing the factors that turn a relatively harmless cloud of insects into a devastating plague.
- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9255-how-locusts-decide-its-time-to-swarm.html

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Animal Cognition Network Open in a new windowLink Details
- Provides links to current scientific literature in the field of animal cognition. Includes journal articles, reviews, books and relevant websites.
- http://www.animalcognition.net

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The Peripheral Auditory Characteristics of Noctuid Moths Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research by Dean Waters into the auditory systems sensitive to ultrasound possessed by these moths and their ability to recognise and respond to the echolocation sounds emitted by bats.
- http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/4/857.pdf

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Adaptation Open in a new windowLink Details
- Mark A McPeek outlines his research on how damselflies evade their predators, in particular the trade off they make between foraging rate and predation risk.
- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mcpeek/adaptation.html

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Antipredator Adaptations: Crypsis Open in a new windowLink Details
- Notes, with photographs, on the four cryptic strategies employed by animals to blend in with their background and avoid detection.
- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~croman/crypsis/antipredator.htm

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EcoBirds: Anting Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article discussing the strange behavior adopted by some birds in using ants in preening or in some instances, lying down among ants.
- http://birds.ecoport.org/Behaviour/EBanting.htm

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Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- A free online textbook from Wikibooks.
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior

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Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article from Wikibooks explaining that, by learning how the senses gather information, a better understanding of behavior is gained.
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior/Sensory_Biology#Sensory_Perception

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Avian Visual Cognition Open in a new windowLink Details
- This multimedia cyberbook provides a comprehensive survey of this area of comparative research with chapters by top international scientists.
- http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/toc.htm

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Kohler’s Research on the Mentality of Apes Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/kohler.htm

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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Animal Architecture Open in a new windowLink Details
- Dr Michael Hansell has built up an extensive collection of animal artefacts, mainly bird and insect nests but also other fascinating items.
- http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/zoology/animals/animal_architecture.shtml

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A Reproductive Dictatorship : Naked Mole-rats Open in a new windowLink Details
- The eusocial naked mole-rat is the mammalian equivalent of a social insect. This article discusses how and why the dominant queen and the infertile workers cooperate for the benefit of the whole colony.
- http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugbt991/CGFNMR.htm

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Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University Open in a new windowLink Details
- Current research includes the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, avian behavioral ecology, and what behaviors help an animal to adapt to its environment.
- http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/grp/animal-ecology/en/

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Historical Information about Animal Cognition Open in a new windowLink Details
- A brief survey of important scientists in the history of the study of animal behavior.
- http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm

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Compass Education and Training Open in a new windowLink Details
- Offers home study courses in animal behavior at intermediate and advanced level, and equine, feline, canine, reptile and parrot behavior and psychology studies.
- http://www.neotericdesign.co.uk/compass1/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/46/bbs00000546-00/bbs.heyes.html

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The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes Open in a new windowLink Details
- Noel Egenter outlines his research into the ability of apes to weave branches into a stable construction and whether this requires a definite learning process.
- http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/081NestbApes_E.html

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Warning Colour and Mimicry Open in a new windowLink Details
- Mimicry is a great example of evolution by natural selection. Outline of a lecture on the subject from the Evolutionary Genetics course at University College, London.
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbhdjm/courses/b242/Mimic/Mimic.html

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Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by James Mallet in which he discusses whether the unpalatable species that copy one another for their mutual benefit evolved together.
- http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/pap/mimcoev.pdf

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The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and discussing the extent to which hoverflies succeed in mimicing bees, wasps and bumblebees.
- http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000096/01/ImperfectMimicry.pdf

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Cospeciation and Rates of Evolution in Lice and Birds: a Molecular Approach Open in a new windowLink Details
- How old is the association between a given parasite and its host? Rod Page at the University of Glasgow tries to answer this question.
- http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/Jobs/NERC/seabird.html

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Bear Center Conducts Hibernation Study Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Lynne L Rogers who has studied black bear behavior and ecology in northeastern Minnesota since 1969.
- http://www.bear.org/Black/BlackBearResearch/Bear_Center_Conducts_Hibernation_Study.html

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Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Stephanie Doucet and Robert Montgomerie on their research into the interrelationship between bower features, plumage coloration, and indicators of male quality in this species.
- http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/14/4/503

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Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding the evolution of the complex sexual male displays in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
- http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/borgialab/

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Cognitive Ecology: A Field of Substance? Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article arguing that a greater insight into behaviors such as animal orientation, song learning, mate choice and foraging is achieved by tackling the subject from more than one starting point.
- http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Healy00.pdf

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Partnership in Birds Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and why such divorces occur.
- http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/behavecol/jstacy_desertion.pdf

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Behaviour: A Journey to the Bottom of the World Open in a new windowLink Details
- Penguins can demonstrate complex behavioral patterns including general, aggressive and sexual behaviors.
- http://www.tuxxie.org//ethology/_._.html

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Reading: Manning and Dawkins, Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- Notes on Chapters 2 to 7 of this book covering aspects of communication, learning, memory, evolution and social organisation.
- http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/yek18/greg/docs/reading%20-%20Manning%20and%20Dawkins,%20animal%20behaviour.htm

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Cooperative Breeding Open in a new windowLink Details
- Communal breeding occurs when more than two birds of the same species provide care in rearing the young from one nest.
- http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Cooperative_Breeding.html

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Trade-offs Between Extraterritorial Prospecting and Helping in a Cooperative Mammal Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researchers at Cambridge University investigated whether male meerkats trade off their cooperative contributions to pup feeding against searching for mating and dispersal opportunities.
- http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ajy20/Trade-offs%20between%20prospecting%20and%20helping%20in%20meerkats.pdf

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Cooperative Breeding in Birds: a Comparative Test of the Life History Hypothesis Open in a new windowLink Details
- Kathryn Arnold and Ian Owens test the hypothesis that cooperative breeding tends to occur in species with low annual mortality because this leads to overcrowded populations.
- http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/lhistory.pdf

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Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- In this paper, Marc Bekoff attempts to demonstrate the importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing the understanding of animal cognition.
- http://cogprints.org/157/00/199709002.html

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Untangling the Tangle-Web: Web Construction Behavior of the Comb-Footed Spider Open in a new windowLink Details
- Suresh Benjamin and Samuel Zschokke observed the behavior involved in the construction of a three dimensional, irregular web.
- http://nature.berkeley.edu/evolab/suresh/PDF-Files/Benjamin%20&%20Zschokke%202002.pdf

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Overview of Our Research on the Variable Field Cricket Open in a new windowLink Details
- At the Wagner Laboratory at the University of Nebraska, research is being undertaken on the evolution of male singing behavior and female song preferences in the variable field cricket
- http://cricket.unl.edu/research.html

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Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Arachnology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Dr George Uetz at the University of Illinois is leading research into colonial web-building spiders, communication in wolf spiders and other aspects of arachnid behavior.
- http://www.biology.uc.edu/faculty/uetz/sitemap.htm

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Web Building Behaviour in Araneus diadematus Open in a new windowLink Details
- Thomas Hasselberg’s thesis examines web building behavior in this spider, and the effects of temperature and neurotoxins on the geometry of the web and the catching of prey.
- http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpth/Documents/Hesselberg-MScThesis.pdf

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Figs and Fig wasps Open in a new windowLink Details
- An example of mutualism, fig wasps only live for a few days but manage to perform their amazing task of finding and pollinating the flowers that are hidden deep inside the fig.
- http://www.figweb.org/

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Deep-sea Octocorals as Homes for Other Species Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researchers at the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, examine the commensal relationships of octocorals with brittle stars and marine scale worms.
- http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04mountains/background/commensals/commensals.html

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A Century of Generalization Open in a new windowLink Details
- This article aims to organise existing data to test the theory that, when a behavior has been established in response to a certain stimulus, novel stimuli resembling the first will usually elicit the same response.
- http://cogprints.org/5279/01/ghirlanda_enquist2003.pdf

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Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids Open in a new windowLink Details
- Paper by Marc Bekoff discussing the use by animals of specific signals primarily to initiate or maintain social play.
- http://cogprints.org/158/00/199709003.html

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Variation in Lekking Costs in Blackbuck Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India examine the hypothesis that among lekking males of the species Antilope cervicapra, variations in lekking costs is related to differences in mating benefits.
- http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ks410/Isvaran_Jhala_2000.pdf

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Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery Open in a new windowLink Details
- Current research at Hunter College, New York, concentrates on the multiple sensory systems that fish use to detect moving and sound-producing objects, including the gymnotiform fishes that use electricity to communicate.
- http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~cbraun/braunwebsite/Research.htm

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Processing Towards Life Open in a new windowLink Details
- L Charles Birch discusses self-organisation as exampled by termites, ants and slime moulds, where patterns of behavior are determined, not by some centralised authority, but by local interactions about decentralised components
- http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2861

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Animal Behaviour Research Unit Open in a new windowLink Details
- Established in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, ABRU undertakes long term research into yellow baboons and now also studies the African Elephant.
- http://web.anglia.ac.uk/appsci/lifesci/abru/

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Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne Open in a new windowLink Details
- Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines.
- http://www.camargue.unibas.ch

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The Dwarf Mongoose: Social Cooperation Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article discussing the benefit for dwarf mongooses of living in a cohesive group. Also describes their symbiotic cooperation with hornbills in Kenya.
- http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/behavior/Spring2003/Rizi/SC.htm

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Cophylogeny between Pocket Gophers and Chewing Lice Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation.
- http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/book/draft/hafner.pdf

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Brood Parasitism Open in a new windowLink Details
- This essay describes the behavior of birds that lay their eggs in the nest of another species, with links to other essays covering similar topics.
- http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html

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Nature-Wildlife Open in a new windowLink Details
- Besides photographing African wildlife, Spook Skelton provides notes on African mammals and their behaviour, gleaned from reading and direct observation.
- http://www.nature-wildlife.com/

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Cognitive Architecture of a Mini-brain: The Honeybee Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Randolf Menzel and Martin Giurfa examining the extent to which adaptive behaviour in honeybees exceeds elementary forms of learning, and identifying the neural mechanisms involved.
- http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/minibrain.pdf

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Robot Modelling of Insect Proto-Cognition Open in a new windowLink Details
- D J Smith’s thesis concerns a bio-robotic investigation of the elementary forms of cognition that might be present in small brains, specifically insect brains.
- http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/PROPOSALS/smith_thesis_proposal.pdf

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Journal of Insect Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- With six editions a year, this journal covers a wide range of behavioral research.
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-8889/

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Describing Social Insect Behaviour Using Process Algebra Open in a new windowLink Details
- Chris Tofts at University College Swansea, Wales, presents robust algorithms that describe three different ant behaviours: synchrony, task allocation and sorting
- http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Chris_Tofts/Papers/SocialInsects.pdf

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Elephant Corner: Mentality, Cognition and Behavior of Elephants Open in a new windowLink Details
- Moti Nissani details his research into elephant behavior, cognition and senses, with sounds and video clips.
- http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/ElephantCorner/front.htm

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Chelonian Research Foundation Open in a new windowLink Details
- This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and Biology.
- http://www.chelonian.org/

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Universal Parasitism and the Co-evolution of Extended Phenotypes Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Richard Dawkins argues that we should ask “Which animal is benefiting from this behavior?” rather than asking “In what way is this animal benefiting from this behavior?” Parasites are used to illustrate this thesis.
- http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1989univpara.shtml

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Oklahoma University Behavioral Neuroscience Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research in the OU Zoology Department addresses major biological questions through studies of molecules, cells, organisms, and ecosystems to uncover mechanisms of physiology, development, behavior, and evolution.
- http://www.ou.edu/oubns/

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Whiting Lab Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research conducted at Wits University in South Africa that focuses on the behavior and evolutionary ecology of lizards and cichlids.
- http://www.wits.ac.za/Science/APES/mwlab/

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Chimpanzee Cultures Open in a new windowLink Details
- A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors.
- http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/

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Social Behaviour of African Wild Dogs Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/mbiolsci/green-kathleen/level3dissertation.pdf

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Dominance in Crayfish. Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article from the Journal of Neuroscience on patterns of behavior, including the activation of neural circuits, during the formation of a dominance hierarchy in crayfish.
- http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/8/2759

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Dominance in Domestic Hen Triads Open in a new windowLink Details
- The role of individual differences and patterns of resolution in the formation of dominance orders in domestic hen triads.
- http://cogprints.org/1960/

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About Gender: Ethology Open in a new windowLink Details
- An introduction to animal reproduction, maternal strategies, living in groups, dominance and male behavior. The rest of the site deals with human gender roles, variance and identity.
- http://www.gender.org.uk/about/index.htm#ethol

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Group Predation of Lions Open in a new windowLink Details
- An investigation into the visual cues required to coordinate the complex cooperative behavior involved in hunting.
- http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~amb/papers/lionsIJCAI05.pdf

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Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism Open in a new windowLink Details
- Temple Grandin discusses his views on animal consciousness, using comparisons from his experience with autism, citing scientific evidence on other neurological disorders which affect consciousness.
- http://grandin.com/references/animal.consciousness.html

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The Arts of Deception - Mimicry and Camouflage Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Rhett Butler on camouflage as used by animals and the three forms of mimicry utilized by both predator and prey.
- http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0306.htm

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Fish Behaviour Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, aims to study aggressive behavior in fish and relate this to the aggressor’s position in the group hierarchy. Includes video clips.
- http://vcs.abdn.ac.uk/BIO_SOIL/trout/contents.html

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Research Projects in the Mammal Research Unit Open in a new windowLink Details
- Details of the current research projects being undertaken at the Mammal Research Unit at Bristol University, England.
- http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/mammal/research.html

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ReefQuest Open in a new windowLink Details
- A comprehensive source of information on the biology of sharks and rays including behavioral studies.
- http://www.elasmo-research.org/site_map.htm

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Torpor in Hummingbirds Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Devorah Bennu on the strategy used by hummingbirds to conserve energy in order to survive long cold nights.
- http://research.amnh.org/users/nyneve/hummingbirds.html

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Mammalian Hibernation Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep and torpor.
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/cryo_course/cryo_chap12_1.html

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Research Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology (BPERC) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://www.une.edu.au/zoology/bperc.php

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Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research into brain function and behavior, communication and higher cognition in animals as undertaken at the University of New England, Australia.
- http://www.une.edu.au/cnab/

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Mammal Research at JCU Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researchers at James Cook University are studying the life histories of several endangered Australian marsupials.
- http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/auxillry/mammals/mamres.html

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Pelican Lagoon Research Centre Open in a new windowLink Details
- This centre in Australia provides habitats for long term field studies, especially on monotremes, free from the impact of introduced species.
- http://www.echidna.edu.au

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Article: Bee Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- By studying bees as individuals and as a colony, Stephen Taber researches how their behavior may be changed to our benefit. The site also provides a sourcebook for beekeeping.
- http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/beekpUSA33.htm

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Animal Cognition Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researchers at Edinburgh University are using both evolutionary and behavioral approaches to try to understand the factors that shape animal cognitive abilities.
- http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk

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The European Union for Bird Ringing Open in a new windowLink Details
- EURING coordinates bird ringing throughout Europe and promotes research needed to inform the conservation and scientific understanding of wild birds.
- http://www.euring.org

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The Pherobase Open in a new windowLink Details
- A searchable database of insect pheromones and semiochemicals, now covering over 7000 species of insect.
- http://www.pherobase.com

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The Gordon Lab Open in a new windowLink Details
- A long-term study of ant colony behavior, organization and ecology undertaken by Deborah Gordon and her colleagues at Stanford University.
- http://www.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/

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The Ryan Lab Open in a new windowLink Details
- Situated at the University of Texas, this lab is addressing questions concerning the evolution and function of animal behavior. Most of the work centers on frogs and fish.
- http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/ryan/

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Essay: A Baboon’s Life Open in a new windowLink Details
- An essay written by Robert Sapolsky in 1996 on violence between male baboons, aging and friendship.
- http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9607/9607essy01.shtml

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Tamás Székely Open in a new windowLink Details
- Researcher at Bath University, England aiming to understand how animals solve the challenges imposed by their environment, mainly using bird populations
- http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/szekely/tamas_research

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Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Research Group. Open in a new windowLink Details
- The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada examines how an understanding of the behavior of domesticated animals and poultry can contribute to their welfare.
- http://www.uoguelph.ca/abw/

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Animal Behaviour Open in a new windowLink Details
- Birmingham University’s introduction to animal behavior for biology students. Covers a wide range of topics with references for further study and a quiz to test understanding.
- http://www.animalbehaviour.org

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Baboon and Impala Together Open in a new windowLink Details
- Discusses how baboons and impala interact. Offers scientific observations and images.
- http://home.comcast.net/~tom-day/babim.html

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Bee Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- A project studying the behavior of bees as individuals and as a colony, including a live feed from a hive.
- http://www.beebehavior.com/

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University of Los Andes Frog Research Open in a new windowLink Details
- Group working on frog behavior and ecophysiology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
- http://gecoh.uniandes.edu.co

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Wolf and Wildlife Studies Open in a new windowLink Details
- Discusses ongoing field research concerning the behavioral habits of the Fishtrap wolf pack in northwest Montana.
- http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com

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Behavioral Ecology Research Group Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research on the evolution of social systems and social learning at the University of Queensland, Australia.
- http://www.uq.edu.au/berg/

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Slagsvold Group Open in a new windowLink Details
- A research group at the University of Oslo, Norway. Primary focus is on the study of sexual imprinting in small passerines.
- http://folk.uio.no/larsejo/tits/index.php

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NPR: Animal Thought and Communication Open in a new windowLink Details
- Ira Flatow and guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys [Real Audio broadcast].
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1601349

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Movie Archives of Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- An online animal behavior video database available in various formats. Most clips filmed in Japan.
- http://www.momo-p.com/index-e.html

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Ethology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Tables of contents, contacts and subscription information from this journal by Blackwell Publishing.
- http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0179-1613

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Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Austrian organization that investigates major unsolved problems in behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
- http://www.oeaw.ac.at/klivv/

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Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and instincts.
- http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Animal_Behavior-Instincts/

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Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois Open in a new windowLink Details
- Research in Gene E. Robinson's lab that studies the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.
- http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/

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Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- Information from Indiana University's program on animal behavior.
- http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/

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Animal Behavior Lab Open in a new windowLink Details
- Overview of current research at Macquarie University, Australia, with detailed material on each project.
- http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/

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Archives of Ethology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Archives of an inactive internet discussion group on animal behavior that span an eight year period.
- http://segate.sunet.se/archives/ethology.html

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Ontologies for Ethology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Peter E. Midford's research in coding animal behavior descriptions, particularly ethograms using ontology.
- http://www.mesquiteproject.org/ontology/

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Dolphin Institute Open in a new windowLink Details
- Dedicated to conservation of and education about dolphins and whales. Research projects include dolphin echolocation.
- http://www.dolphin-institute.org/

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Phenology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Animal activity and growth responses to seasonal climatic changes. Discussion of phenology data on animal cycles of life.
- http://sws-wis.com/lifecycles/

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Bird Behavior Open in a new windowLink Details
- Bird Behavior is an international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on avian behavior, including the areas of ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.
- http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~millerd/bbframes.html

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Animal Behavior and Sociobiology Open in a new windowLink Details
- Lecture on sociobiological behavior based on experimental animal observation from McMaster University, Canada.
- http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/psych1a6/1aa3/EvoPsych/lec1-1.htm

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Fauna Communications Research Open in a new windowLink Details
- Institute that researches bioacoustics and animal communication, especially of endangered species.
- http://animalvoice.com/

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