Directory of Animal Behavior Resources

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This category contains sites covering the many kinds of interactions that occur between animals, their physical habitat and their biological world. Behavior is the interface of the animal with its environment. The scientific study of animal behavior is Ethology.
Ethologists ask such questions as: By what means is the behavior produced? Of what use is it to the animal? How did it develop? What is its evolutionary history?

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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.

• 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.

• Animal Behavior

  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior
  A free online textbook from Wikibooks.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism

  http://grandin.com/references/animal.consciousness.html
  Temple Grandin discusses her views on animal consciousness, using comparisons from her experience with autism, citing scientific evidence on other neurological disorders which affect consciousness.

• Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University

  http://www2.rikkyo.ac.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.

• Mammalian Hibernation

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/cryo_course/cryo_chap12_1.html
  Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep and torpor.

• Movie Archives of Animal Behavior

  http://www.momo-p.com/index-e.html
  An online animal behavior video database available in various formats. Most clips filmed in Japan.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b7bcn
  BBC's Natural History Unit gathers information from correspondents, scientists and amateur naturalists to monitor migrating mammals, birds and insects as they travel.

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