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Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior - http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Animal_Behavior-Instincts/
Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and instincts. |
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Figs and Fig Wasps - http://www.figweb.org/
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. |
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Historical Information about Animal Cognition - http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm
A brief survey of important scientists in the history of the study of animal behavior. |
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The Gordon Lab - http://www.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/
A long-term study of ant colony behavior, organization and ecology undertaken by Deborah Gordon and her colleagues at Stanford University. |
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Bird Behavior - http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~millerd/bbframes.html
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. |
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Ethology - http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0179-1613
Tables of contents, contacts and subscription information from this journal by Blackwell Publishing. |
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The Ryan Lab - http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/ryan/
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. |
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Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds - http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/borgialab/
Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding the evolution of the complex sexual male displays in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. |
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Chelonian Research Foundation - http://www.chelonian.org/
This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and Biology. |
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Fongoli Chimps - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/chimps-with-spears/mary-roach-text.html
Article from the National Geographic Magazine on how the chimpanzees on the savannas of Senegal are hunting bush babies with spearlike sticks. |
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About Gender: Ethology - http://www.gender.org.uk/about/index.htm#ethol
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. |
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Animal Cognition - http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk
Researchers at Edinburgh University are using both evolutionary and behavioral approaches to try to understand the factors that shape animal cognitive abilities. |
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Chimpanzee Cultures - http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/
A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors. |
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Variation in Lekking Costs in Blackbuck - http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/kavita/Isvaran_Jhala_2000.pdf
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] |
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Hummingbirds and Torpor - http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/04/hummingbirds_and_torpor.php
Article by Devorah Bennu on the strategy used by hummingbirds to conserve energy in order to survive long cold nights. |
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Dominance in Domestic Hen Triads - http://cogprints.org/1960/
The role of individual differences and patterns of resolution in the formation of dominance orders in domestic hen triads. |
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ReefQuest - http://www.elasmo-research.org/site_map.htm
A comprehensive source of information on the biology of sharks and rays including behavioral studies. |
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Flocker 1.1 - http://www.zoologia.hu/flocker/
This free software quantifies and compares statistical measures of group size. It differentiates between outsiders' view (group size) versus insiders' view (crowding) measures, controls for the ties among data points in the latter case and handles biased distributions correctly. |
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Animal Behavior Lab - http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/
Overview of current research at Macquarie University, Australia, with detailed material on each project. |
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Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne - http://www.camargue.unibas.ch
Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines. |
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Kohler’s Research on the Mentality of Apes - http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/kohler.htm
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. |
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Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds - http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/14/4/503
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. |
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Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Research Group. - http://www.uoguelph.ca/abw/
The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada examines how an understanding of the behavior of domesticated animals and poultry can contribute to their welfare. |
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Group Predation of Lions - http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~amb/papers/lionsIJCAI05.pdf
An investigation into the visual cues required to coordinate the complex cooperative behavior involved in hunting. |
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Slagsvold Group - http://folk.uio.no/larsejo/tits/index.php
A research group at the University of Oslo, Norway. Primary focus is on the study of sexual imprinting in small passerines. |
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Animal Behavior - http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/index.php/research-areas/animal-behaviour-group.html
Information from McMaster University, Canada on the research program and undergraduate courses available. |
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Animal Navigation Group - http://www.rin.org.uk/sigs-branches/animal/animal-navigation-group
Provides an e-mail animal forum and disseminates news on animal navigation, orientation and migration through its newsletter and conferences. |
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Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism - http://grandin.com/references/animal.consciousness.html
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. |
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Behavioral Ecology Research Group - http://www.uq.edu.au/berg/
Research on the evolution of social systems and social learning at the University of Queensland, Australia. |
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Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior/Sensory_Biology
Article from Wikibooks explaining that, by learning how the senses gather information, a better understanding of behavior is gained. |
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Animal Architecture - http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/zoology/animals/animal_architecture.shtml
Dr Michael Hansell has built up an extensive collection of animal artefacts, mainly bird and insect nests but also other fascinating items. |
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Deep-sea Octocorals as Homes for Other Species - http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04mountains/background/commensals/commensals.html
Researchers at the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, examine the commensal relationships of octocorals with brittle stars and marine scale worms. |
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University of Los Andes Frog Research - http://gecoh.uniandes.edu.co
Group working on frog behavior and ecophysiology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. |
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Phenology - http://sws-wis.com/lifecycles/
Animal activity and growth responses to seasonal climatic changes. Discussion of phenology data on animal cycles of life. |
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Ontologies for Ethology - http://www.mesquiteproject.org/ontology/
Peter E. Midford's research in coding animal behavior descriptions, particularly ethograms using ontology. |
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How Locusts Decide it is Time to Swarm - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9255-how-locusts-decide-its-time-to-swarm.html
Article from the New Scientist discussing the factors that turn a relatively harmless cloud of insects into a devastating plague. |
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Dominance in Crayfish. - http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/8/2759
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. |
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Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates - http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/46/bbs00000546-00/bbs.heyes.html
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. |
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Pelican Lagoon Research Centre - http://www.echidna.edu.au
This centre in Australia provides habitats for long term field studies, especially on monotremes, free from the impact of introduced species. |
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The Peripheral Auditory Characteristics of Noctuid Moths - http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/4/857.pdf
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. |
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Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Arachnology - http://www.biology.uc.edu/faculty/uetz/sitemap.htm
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. |
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Processing Towards Life - http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2861
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 |
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Mammal Research at JCU - http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/auxillry/mammals/mamres.html
Researchers at James Cook University are studying the life histories of several endangered Australian marsupials. |
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Cospeciation and Rates of Evolution in Lice and Birds: a Molecular Approach - http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/Jobs/NERC/seabird.html
How old is the association between a given parasite and its host? Rod Page at the University of Glasgow tries to answer this question. |
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Bee Behavior - http://www.beebehavior.com/
A project studying the behavior of bees as individuals and as a colony, including a live feed from a hive. |
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Research Projects in the Mammal Research Unit - http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/mammal/research.html
Details of the current research projects being undertaken at the Mammal Research Unit at Bristol University, England. |
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The Arts of Deception - Mimicry and Camouflage - http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0306.htm
Article by Rhett Butler on camouflage as used by animals and the three forms of mimicry utilized by both predator and prey. |
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Overview of Our Research on the Variable Field Cricket - http://cricket.unl.edu/research.html
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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Article: Bee Behavior - http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/beekpUSA33.htm
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. |
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A Reproductive Dictatorship: Naked Mole-rats - http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/CGFNMR.htm
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. |
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Fish and Shrimp Interactions - http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/fish_invert_ecology/predator_prey/fish_shrimp.aspx
Details of research carried out by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the behavior of fish with varying numbers of prey species and fish densities. |
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Mammalian Hibernation - http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/cryo_course/cryo_chap12_1.html
Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep and torpor. |
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NPR: Animal Thought and Communication - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1601349
Ira Flatow and guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys [Real Audio broadcast]. |
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Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery - http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~cbraun/braunwebsite/Research.htm
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. |
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Wolf and Wildlife Studies - http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com
Discusses ongoing field research concerning the behavioral habits of the Fishtrap wolf pack in northwest Montana. |
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Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University - http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/grp/animal-ecology/en/
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. |
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Animal Behaviour - http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/dbs/abc/dm_behaviour_paper_1.htm
Daniel Mills and Gill Sheppard describe an evolutionary approach to the analysis, assessment and treatment of behavior problems. |
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Elephant Corner: Mentality, Cognition and Behavior of Elephants - http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/ElephantCorner/front.htm
Moti Nissani details his research into elephant behavior, cognition and senses, with sounds and video clips. |
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Project Apis dorsata - http://www.apis-dorsata.info
Provides information on a research project in Nepal to study the communication and defense behaviour of the Asian Giant Honeybee, Apis dorsata. |
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Wanted: A Reason to Divorce - http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/scheidung_en.pdf
Max Planck scientists find evidence that marriage crises in blue tits are probably caused by other females. |
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Personality Gene Makes Songbirds Curious - http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/meisen_en.pdf
Max Planck scientists find evidence for an association between gene variants and exploratory behavior in great tits. |
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Unfaithful Songbirds Increase Offspring Fitness - http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/blaumeisen_en.pdf
Article from the Max Planck Society on research showing that female promiscuity can reduce the negative consequences of inbreeding in socially monogamous birds. |
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EcoBirds: Anting - http://birds.ecoport.org/Behaviour/EBanting.htm
Article discussing the strange behavior adopted by some birds in using ants in preening or in some instances, lying down among ants. |
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Animal Cognition Network - http://www.animalcognition.net
Provides links to current scientific literature in the field of animal cognition. Includes journal articles, reviews, books and relevant websites. |
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The Finch Self-Medication Website - http://astorwilliam.tripod.com/
Birds and animals have often been seen using plants, soil, insects or fungi as 'medicines'. William Astor explains his findings on this remarkable ability with regard to Estrildid finches. |
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Why Grandmothers? - http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/09/why_grandmothers.php
Article by Devorah Bennu examining whether grandmothers play any part in the cooperative rearing of young birds. |
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The Effect of Light on the Behaviour and Well Being of Marine Fish - http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb12.html
Article by J Charles Delbeek on the activities of fish at varying levels of light and the very important role light plays in their lives. |
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Reading: Manning and Dawkins, Animal Behavior - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/yek18/greg/docs/reading%20-%20Manning%20and%20Dawkins,%20animal%20behaviour.htm
Notes on Chapters 2 to 7 of this book covering aspects of communication, learning, memory, evolution and social organisation. |
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Antipredator Adaptations: Crypsis - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~croman/crypsis/antipredator.htm
Notes, with photographs, on the four cryptic strategies employed by animals to blend in with their background and avoid detection. |
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Social Behaviour of African Wild Dogs - http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/mbiolsci/green-kathleen/level3dissertation.pdf
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. |
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Cognitive Ecology: A Field of Substance? - http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Healy00.pdf
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. |
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A Century of Generalization - http://cogprints.org/5279/01/ghirlanda_enquist2003.pdf
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. |
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Cophylogeny between Pocket Gophers and Chewing Lice - http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/book/draft/hafner.pdf
Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation. |
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The Dwarf Mongoose: Social Cooperation - http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/behavior/Spring2003/Rizi/SC.htm
Article discussing the benefit for dwarf mongooses of living in a cohesive group. Also describes their symbiotic cooperation with hornbills in Kenya. |
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Nests and Nest-Building in Birds - http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2005/metada05/pdf/introduction.pdf
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. |
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Cooperative Breeding - http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Cooperative_Breeding.html
Communal breeding occurs when more than two birds of the same species provide care in rearing the young from one nest. |
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Partnership in Birds - http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/behavecol/jstacy_desertion.pdf
Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and why such divorces occur. |
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Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/pap/mimcoev.pdf
Article by James Mallet in which he discusses whether the unpalatable species that copy one another for their mutual benefit evolved together. |
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Warning Colour and Mimicry - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbhdjm/courses/b242/Mimic/Mimic.html
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. |
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The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes - http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/081NestbApes_E.html
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. |