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61. Brood Parasitism
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.
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Google PR: Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Article discussing the benefit for dwarf mongooses of living in a cohesive group. Also describes their symbiotic cooperation with hornbills in Kenya.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Established in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, ABRU undertakes long term research into yellow baboons and now also studies the African Elephant.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Paper by Marc Bekoff discussing the use by animals of specific signals primarily to initiate or maintain social play.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Researchers at the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, examine the commensal relationships of octocorals with brittle stars and marine scale worms.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 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
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Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: In this paper, Marc Bekoff attempts to demonstrate the importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing the understanding of animal cognition.
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