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Animal Behavior:

About Gender: Ethology

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

Adaptation

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

Alina Simona Rusu

Researcher whose publications include coping strategies in mice, chemical communication in mammals and cognitive ethology.

http://www.geocities.com/a_s_rusu/

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All About How Males Attract Female Birds

Describes research into the extent to which female birds choose their mates according to their vocal ability.

http://petcaretips.net/how-bird-attracts.html

Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs

Describes the wolf-pack social order as it occurs in nature, discusses the alpha concept and social dominance and submission, and presents data on the precise relationships among members in free-living packs.

http://www.scallywags1.freeserve.co.uk/alstat/alstat.htm

Animal Behavior

A free online textbook from Wikibooks.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior

Animal Behavior

Information from McMaster University, Canada on the research program and undergraduate courses available.

http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/index.php/research-areas/animal-behaviour-group.html

Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Arachnology

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

Animal Behavior Lab

Overview of current research at Macquarie University, Australia, with detailed material on each project.

http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/

Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology

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

Animal Behaviour

Daniel Mills and Gill Sheppard describe an evolutionary approach to the analysis, assessment and treatment of behavior problems.

http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/dbs/abc/dm_behaviour_paper_1.htm

Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Research Group.

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/

Animal Behaviour Research Unit

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/

Animal Cognition

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

Animal Cognition Network

Provides links to current scientific literature in the field of animal cognition. Includes journal articles, reviews, books and relevant websites.

http://www.animalcognition.net

Animal Navigation Group

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

Antipredator Adaptations: Crypsis

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

Article: Bee Behavior

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

The Arts of Deception - Mimicry and Camouflage

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

Avian Visual Cognition

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

Baboon and Impala Together

Discusses how baboons and impala interact. Offers scientific observations and images.

http://home.comcast.net/~tom-day/babim.html

Bear Center Conducts Hibernation Study

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

Bee Behavior

A project studying the behavior of bees as individuals and as a colony, including a live feed from a hive.

http://www.beebehavior.com/

Behavioral Ecology Research Group

Research on the evolution of social systems and social learning at the University of Queensland, Australia.

http://www.uq.edu.au/berg/

Behaviour

Article from the BBC Science and Nature series on why mammals have developed such complex social strategies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/behaviour.shtml

Behaviour: A Journey to the Bottom of the World

Penguins can demonstrate complex behavioral patterns including general, aggressive and sexual behaviors.

http://www.tuxxie.org//ethology/_._.html

Behaviour: Altruism

Article discussing how helping another member of the same species may have benefits for the donor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/altruism.shtml

Behaviour: Looking after Relatives

Article discussing the reasons behind actions such as a female molerat working to help raise her mother's children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/relatives.shtml

Behavioural and Cognitive Influences of Kairomones on an Araneophagic Jumping Spider

Jackson, Clark and Harland researched the factors influencing the predatory habits of the jumping spider, Portia fimbriata, which eats other spiders. [PDF]

http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/ccnr/Papers/Downloads/Jackson_Behav2002.pdf

Bird Behavior

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

Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery

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

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.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html

Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry

Article by James Mallet in which he discusses whether the unpalatable species that copy one another for their mutual benefit evolved together. [PDF]

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/pap/mimcoev.pdf

Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Information from Indiana University's program on animal behavior.

http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/

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.

http://bsweb.unl.edu/avcog

Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour

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/

A Century of Generalization

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. [PDF]

http://cogprints.org/5279/01/ghirlanda_enquist2003.pdf

Chelonian Research Foundation

This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and Biology.

http://www.chelonian.org/

Chimpanzee Cultures

A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors.

http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/

Cognitive Architecture of a Mini-brain: The Honeybee

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. [PDF]

http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/minibrain.pdf

Cognitive Ecology: A Field of Substance?

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. [PDF]

http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Healy00.pdf

Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior

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

Compass Education and Training

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.compass-education.co.uk/

Conflict and Cooperation

Tamas Szekely provides a really short, illustrated guide to the family life of birds. [PDF]

http://www.bath.ac.uk/podcast/powerpoint/Szekely_CharterDay2007.pdf

Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism

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

Cooperative Breeding

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

Cooperative Breeding in Birds: a Comparative Test of the Life History Hypothesis

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. [PDF]

http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/lhistory.pdf

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]

http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/book/draft/hafner.pdf

Cospeciation and Rates of Evolution in Lice and Birds: a Molecular Approach

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

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.

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04mountains/background/commensals/commensals.html

Describing Social Insect Behaviour Using Process Algebra

Chris Tofts at University College Swansea, Wales, presents robust algorithms that describe three different ant behaviours: synchrony, task allocation and sorting [PDF]

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Chris_Tofts/Papers/SocialInsects.pdf

Dolphin Institute

Dedicated to conservation of and education about dolphins and whales. Research projects include dolphin echolocation.

http://www.dolphin-institute.org/

Dominance in Crayfish.

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

Dominance in Domestic Hen Triads

The role of individual differences and patterns of resolution in the formation of dominance orders in domestic hen triads.

http://cogprints.org/1960/

The Dwarf Mongoose: Social Cooperation

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

EcoBirds: Anting

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

The Effect of Light on the Behaviour and Well Being of Marine Fish

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.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb12.html

Elephant Corner: Mentality, Cognition and Behavior of Elephants

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

Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior

Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and instincts.

http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Animal_Behavior-Instincts/

Essay: A Baboon’s Life

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

Ethology

Tables of contents, contacts and subscription information from this journal by Blackwell Publishing.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0179-1613

The European Union for Bird Ringing

EURING coordinates bird ringing throughout Europe and promotes research needed to inform the conservation and scientific understanding of wild birds.

http://www.euring.org

The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies

Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and discussing the extent to which hoverflies succeed in mimicing bees, wasps and bumblebees. [PDF]

http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000096/01/ImperfectMimicry.pdf

Fauna Communications Research

Institute that researches bioacoustics and animal communication, especially of endangered species.

http://animalvoice.com/

Feral Cats

Information on a study of feral cats in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard, United Kingdom, conducted by Jane Dards in the 1970s.

http://members.aol.com/catsferal/

Figs and Fig Wasps

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/

The Finch Self-Medication Website

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.

http://astorwilliam.tripod.com/

Fish and Shrimp Interactions

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.

http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/fish_invert_ecology/predator_prey/fish_shrimp.jsp

Fish Behaviour

Describes certain behaviors that can indicate pain in fish and the behavioral evidence for the perception of pain by fish.

http://www.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalwelfare/Fish%20pain/Behaviour.htm

Flocker 1.1

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.

http://www.behav.org/flocker.htm

Fongoli Chimps

Article from the National Geographic Magazine on how the chimpanzees on the savannas of Senegal are hunting bush babies with spearlike sticks.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/chimps-with-spears/mary-roach-text.html

The Gordon Lab

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/

Group Mobbing Behaviour and Nest Defence

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. [PDF]

http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/ethology.pdf

Group Predation of Lions

An investigation into the visual cues required to coordinate the complex cooperative behavior involved in hunting. [PDF]

http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~amb/papers/lionsIJCAI05.pdf

Historical Information about Animal Cognition

A brief survey of important scientists in the history of the study of animal behavior.

http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm

Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois

Research in Gene E. Robinson's lab that studies the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/

How Locusts Decide it is Time to Swarm

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

Hummingbirds and Torpor

Article by Devorah Bennu on the strategy used by hummingbirds to conserve energy in order to survive long cold nights.

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/04/hummingbirds_and_torpor.php

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Animal Architecture

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

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.

http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/kohler.htm

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology

Austrian organization that investigates major unsolved problems in behavioral and evolutionary ecology.

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/klivv/

Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University

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/

Long-distance Land Bird Migration

This article discusses the reasons for migration, its advantages and disadvantages, and the different patterns of migration adopted by different bird groups.

http://petcaretips.net/bird-migration.html

Mammal Research at JCU

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

Mammalian Hibernation

Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep and torpor.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/cryo_course/cryo_chap12_1.html

Movie Archives of Animal Behavior

An online animal behavior video database available in various formats. Most clips filmed in Japan.

http://www.momo-p.com/index-e.html

Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds

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

Nature-Wildlife

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/

The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes

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

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]

http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2005/metada05/pdf/introduction.pdf

Oklahoma University Behavioral Neuroscience

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/

Ontologies for Ethology

Peter E. Midford's research in coding animal behavior descriptions, particularly ethograms using ontology.

http://www.mesquiteproject.org/ontology/

Overview of Our Research on the Variable Field Cricket

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

Partnership in Birds

Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and why such divorces occur. [PDF]

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/behavecol/jstacy_desertion.pdf

Pelican Lagoon Research Centre

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

The Peripheral Auditory Characteristics of Noctuid Moths

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. [PDF]

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/4/857.pdf

Personality Gene Makes Songbirds Curious

Max Planck scientists find evidence for an association between gene variants and exploratory behavior in great tits. [PDF]

http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/meisen_en.pdf

Phenology

Animal activity and growth responses to seasonal climatic changes. Discussion of phenology data on animal cycles of life.

http://sws-wis.com/lifecycles/

The Pherobase

A searchable database of insect pheromones and semiochemicals, now covering over 7000 species of insect.

http://www.pherobase.com

Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids

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

Processing Towards Life

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

Reading: Manning and Dawkins, Animal Behavior

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

ReefQuest

A comprehensive source of information on the biology of sharks and rays including behavioral studies.

http://www.elasmo-research.org/site_map.htm

A Reproductive Dictatorship: Naked Mole-rats

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://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/CGFNMR.htm

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.

http://www.une.edu.au/zoology/bperc.php

Research Projects in the Mammal Research Unit

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

Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne

Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines.

http://www.camargue.unibas.ch

Robot Modelling of Insect Proto-Cognition

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. [PDF]

http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/PROPOSALS/smith_thesis_proposal.pdf

The Ryan Lab

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/

Sexual Conflict, Ecology and Breeding Systems in Shorebirds

Paper by Tamas Szekely, Gavin Thomas and Innes Cuthill examining the different reproductive payoffs for male and female birds of adopting various diverse breeding systems. [PDF]

http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/biodiversity-lab/publications/BioScience_Octobert2006.pdf

Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds

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/

Slagsvold Group

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

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]

http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/mbiolsci/green-kathleen/level3dissertation.pdf

Stress and the City: Urban Birds Keep Cool

Ornithologists at the Max Planck Society demonstrate that urban birds are more resistant to acute stress than forest dwelling birds. [PDF]

http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/stress_en.pdf

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.

http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/46/bbs00000546-00/bbs.heyes.html

Too Mellow for our Predatory World

Article from the Max Planck Society on research examining flexibility in flight behavior in marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands. [PDF]

http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/echsen_en.pdf

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]

http://rom.ex.ac.uk/documents/Bios/ajy204/Young%20et%20al%202005%20-%20Trade-offs%20between%20prospecting%20and%20helping%20in%20meerkats.pdf

Unfaithful Songbirds Increase Offspring Fitness

Article from the Max Planck Society on research showing that female promiscuity can reduce the negative consequences of inbreeding in socially monogamous birds. [PDF]

http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/blaumeisen_en.pdf

Universal Parasitism and the Co-evolution of Extended Phenotypes

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

University of Los Andes Frog Research

Group working on frog behavior and ecophysiology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.

http://gecoh.uniandes.edu.co

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]

http://nature.berkeley.edu/evolab/suresh/PDF-Files/Benjamin%20&%20Zschokke%202002.pdf

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]

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/kavita/Isvaran_Jhala_2000.pdf

Wanted: A Reason to Divorce

Max Planck scientists find evidence that marriage crises in blue tits are probably caused by other females. [PDF]

http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/scheidung_en.pdf

Warning Colour and Mimicry

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

Why Grandmothers?

Article by Devorah Bennu examining whether grandmothers play any part in the cooperative rearing of young birds.

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/09/why_grandmothers.php

Wolf and Wildlife Studies

Discusses ongoing field research concerning the behavioral habits of the Fishtrap wolf pack in northwest Montana.

http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com

Wolf Behavior

Dedicated to the general public education of the behavioral habits of the wolf. Includes data on reproduction and diet.

http://www.freewebs.com/alphawolfsabrina/

World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations

BBC's Natural History Unit gathers information from correspondents, scientists and amateur naturalists to monitor migrating mammals, birds and insects as they travel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/

NPR: Animal Thought and Communication

Ira Flatow and guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys [Real Audio broadcast]. (January 16, 2004)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1601349

Good day Darling?

How will the TUC welcome the chancellor?

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Flood fears as river levels rise

Flooding may continue to affect parts of England and Wales for several days, the Environment Agency warns.

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Cole double rescues nervy England

England labour to a 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Andorra thanks to Joe Cole's second-half brace.

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Teenager dies in flooding crash

A 17-year-old dies when a vehicle overturns in a flooded river after one of the wettest 48 hours on record.

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The Wrestler scoops Golden Lion

The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, wins the coveted Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival.

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Mother's shock over mansion deaths

The mother of a man thought to have killed his family and torched his mansion before killing himself tells of her shock.

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Khan knocked out inside first minute

Amir Khan is knocked out inside the first minute of his WBO intercontinental lightweight title defence by Breidis Prescott.

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What do you want to talk about?

What do you want the world to talk about?

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Wrestle mania

Mickey Rourke wows Venice with latest movie

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Polish pair comes first in Euro dance contest

Poland won the second Eurovision Dance Contest, which was held in Glasgow before a television audience of millions.

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Angola's troubled election closes

Voting in Angola's first parliamentary elections in 16 years closes after second day.

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Young 'ignorant on mental health'

Almost half of all teenagers cannot name a single mental health condition, according to a poll of schoolchildren.

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Tax rich at higher rate, says TUC

People earning more than £100,000 a year should pay higher tax rates, the Trades Union Congress says.

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Man questioned over baby's murder

A 24-year-old man is arrested and is being questioned about the murder of a 14-week-old baby boy.

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'Action needed' to tackle C.diff

Labour calls for "urgent action" to tackle C.difficile in Scottish hospitals, after an outbreak at the Royal Alexandra in Paisley.

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New hurricane menaces Caribbean

The Caribbean braces for Hurricane Ike, just days after Tropical Storm Hanna left 500 dead in Haiti.

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Your pictures

Storms rage in north-east and central England

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Climate change

Green Party's first leader takes aim at Westminster

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Vein tubes 'fitted needlessly'

A third of patients have unnecessary tubes inserted into veins when they are in hospital, pharmacists have warned.

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Lottery results: Are you a winner?

Check the numbers from Saturday's Lotto draw.

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Data on 5,000 justice staff lost

A computer disc containing details of thousands of prison officers and other justice system employees has gone missing.

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Bhutto's widower wins presidency

Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, wins a sweeping victory in Pakistan's presidential election.

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Murray leading when rain arrives

Britain's Andy Murray leads world number one Rafael Nadal by two sets to love when rain suspends their US Open semi-final.

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In pictures

Paralympic Games opens in Beijing

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Week in pictures

Striking images from around the world this week

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