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Tytuł strony: About Gender: Ethology
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.gender.org.uk/about/index.htm#ethol

Tytuł strony: All About How Males Attract Female Birds
Opis strony: Describes research into the extent to which female birds choose their mates according to their vocal ability.
Adres: http://petcaretips.net/how-bird-attracts.html

Tytuł strony: Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.scallywags1.freeserve.co.uk/alstat/alstat.htm

Tytuł strony: Animal Behavior
Opis strony: A free online textbook from Wikibooks.
Adres: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior

Tytuł strony: Animal Behavior
Opis strony: Information from McMaster University, Canada on the research program and undergraduate courses available.
Adres: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/index.php/research-areas/animal-behaviour-group.html

Tytuł strony: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology and Arachnology
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.biology.uc.edu/faculty/uetz/sitemap.htm

Tytuł strony: Animal Behavior Lab
Opis strony: Overview of current research at Macquarie University, Australia, with detailed material on each project.
Adres: http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/

Tytuł strony: Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology
Opis strony: Article from Wikibooks explaining that, by learning how the senses gather information, a better understanding of behavior is gained.
Adres: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Animal_Behavior/Sensory_Biology

Tytuł strony: Animal Behaviour
Opis strony: Daniel Mills and Gill Sheppard describe an evolutionary approach to the analysis, assessment and treatment of behavior problems.
Adres: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/dbs/abc/dm_behaviour_paper_1.htm

Tytuł strony: Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science Research Group.
Opis strony: The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada examines how an understanding of the behavior of domesticated animals and poultry can contribute to their welfare.
Adres: http://www.uoguelph.ca/abw/

Tytuł strony: Animal Cognition
Opis strony: Researchers at Edinburgh University are using both evolutionary and behavioral approaches to try to understand the factors that shape animal cognitive abilities.
Adres: http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk

Tytuł strony: Animal Cognition Network
Opis strony: Provides links to current scientific literature in the field of animal cognition. Includes journal articles, reviews, books and relevant websites.
Adres: http://www.animalcognition.net

Tytuł strony: Animal Navigation Group
Opis strony: Provides an e-mail animal forum and disseminates news on animal navigation, orientation and migration through its newsletter and conferences.
Adres: http://www.rin.org.uk/sigs-branches/animal/animal-navigation-group

Tytuł strony: Antipredator Adaptations: Crypsis
Opis strony: Notes, with photographs, on the four cryptic strategies employed by animals to blend in with their background and avoid detection.
Adres: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~croman/crypsis/antipredator.htm

Tytuł strony: Article: Bee Behavior
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/beekpUSA33.htm

Tytuł strony: The Arts of Deception - Mimicry and Camouflage
Opis strony: Article by Rhett Butler on camouflage as used by animals and the three forms of mimicry utilized by both predator and prey.
Adres: http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0306.htm

Tytuł strony: Avian Visual Cognition
Opis strony: This multimedia cyberbook provides a comprehensive survey of this area of comparative research with chapters by top international scientists.
Adres: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/avc/toc.htm

Tytuł strony: Baboon and Impala Together
Opis strony: Discusses how baboons and impala interact. Offers scientific observations and images.
Adres: http://home.comcast.net/~tom-day/babim.html

Tytuł strony: Bear Center Conducts Hibernation Study
Opis strony: Article by Lynne L Rogers who has studied black bear behavior and ecology in northeastern Minnesota since 1969.
Adres: http://www.bear.org/Black/BlackBearResearch/Bear_Center_Conducts_Hibernation_Study.html

Tytuł strony: Bee Behavior
Opis strony: A project studying the behavior of bees as individuals and as a colony, including a live feed from a hive.
Adres: http://www.beebehavior.com/

Tytuł strony: Behavioral Ecology Research Group
Opis strony: Research on the evolution of social systems and social learning at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Adres: http://www.uq.edu.au/berg/

Tytuł strony: Behaviour
Opis strony: Article from the BBC Science and Nature series on why mammals have developed such complex social strategies.
Adres: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/behaviour.shtml

Tytuł strony: Behaviour: A Journey to the Bottom of the World
Opis strony: Penguins can demonstrate complex behavioral patterns including general, aggressive and sexual behaviors.
Adres: http://www.tuxxie.org//ethology/_._.html

Tytuł strony: Behaviour: Altruism
Opis strony: Article discussing how helping another member of the same species may have benefits for the donor.
Adres: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/altruism.shtml

Tytuł strony: Behaviour: Looking after Relatives
Opis strony: Article discussing the reasons behind actions such as a female molerat working to help raise her mother's children.
Adres: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/explore/relatives.shtml

Tytuł strony: Behavioural and Cognitive Influences of Kairomones on an Araneophagic Jumping Spider
Opis strony: Jackson, Clark and Harland researched the factors influencing the predatory habits of the jumping spider, Portia fimbriata, which eats other spiders. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/ccnr/Papers/Downloads/Jackson_Behav2002.pdf

Tytuł strony: Bird Behavior
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~millerd/bbframes.html

Tytuł strony: Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~cbraun/braunwebsite/Research.htm

Tytuł strony: Brood Parasitism
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html

Tytuł strony: Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry
Opis strony: Article by James Mallet in which he discusses whether the unpalatable species that copy one another for their mutual benefit evolved together. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/pap/mimcoev.pdf

Tytuł strony: The Centre for Avian Cognition
Opis strony: Research at the University of Nebraska covering a broad range of behavioral and cognitive studies on birds, each combining psychological and biological perspectives.
Adres: http://bsweb.unl.edu/avcog

Tytuł strony: Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour
Opis strony: Research into brain function and behavior, communication and higher cognition in animals as undertaken at the University of New England, Australia.
Adres: http://www.une.edu.au/cnab/

Tytuł strony: A Century of Generalization
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://cogprints.org/5279/01/ghirlanda_enquist2003.pdf

Tytuł strony: Chelonian Research Foundation
Opis strony: This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and Biology.
Adres: http://www.chelonian.org/

Tytuł strony: Chimpanzee Cultures
Opis strony: A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors.
Adres: http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/

Tytuł strony: Cognitive Architecture of a Mini-brain: The Honeybee
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/minibrain.pdf

Tytuł strony: Cognitive Ecology: A Field of Substance?
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Healy00.pdf

Tytuł strony: Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior
Opis strony: In this paper, Marc Bekoff attempts to demonstrate the importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing the understanding of animal cognition.
Adres: http://cogprints.org/157/00/199709002.html

Tytuł strony: Conflict and Cooperation
Opis strony: Tamas Szekely provides a really short, illustrated guide to the family life of birds. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.bath.ac.uk/podcast/powerpoint/Szekely_CharterDay2007.pdf

Tytuł strony: Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://grandin.com/references/animal.consciousness.html

Tytuł strony: Cooperative Breeding
Opis strony: Communal breeding occurs when more than two birds of the same species provide care in rearing the young from one nest.
Adres: http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Cooperative_Breeding.html

Tytuł strony: Cooperative Breeding in Birds: a Comparative Test of the Life History Hypothesis
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/lhistory.pdf

Tytuł strony: Cophylogeny between Pocket Gophers and Chewing Lice
Opis strony: Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation. [PDF]
Adres: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/book/draft/hafner.pdf

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

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

Tytuł strony: Describing Social Insect Behaviour Using Process Algebra
Opis strony: Chris Tofts at University College Swansea, Wales, presents robust algorithms that describe three different ant behaviours: synchrony, task allocation and sorting [PDF]
Adres: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Chris_Tofts/Papers/SocialInsects.pdf

Tytuł strony: Dolphin Institute
Opis strony: Dedicated to conservation of and education about dolphins and whales. Research projects include dolphin echolocation.
Adres: http://www.dolphin-institute.org/

Tytuł strony: Dominance in Crayfish.
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/21/8/2759

Tytuł strony: Dominance in Domestic Hen Triads
Opis strony: The role of individual differences and patterns of resolution in the formation of dominance orders in domestic hen triads.
Adres: http://cogprints.org/1960/

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

Tytuł strony: EcoBirds: Anting
Opis strony: Article discussing the strange behavior adopted by some birds in using ants in preening or in some instances, lying down among ants.
Adres: http://birds.ecoport.org/Behaviour/EBanting.htm

Tytuł strony: The Effect of Light on the Behaviour and Well Being of Marine Fish
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb12.html

Tytuł strony: Elephant Corner: Mentality, Cognition and Behavior of Elephants
Opis strony: Moti Nissani details his research into elephant behavior, cognition and senses, with sounds and video clips.
Adres: http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/ElephantCorner/front.htm

Tytuł strony: Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior
Opis strony: Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and instincts.
Adres: http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Animal_Behavior-Instincts/

Tytuł strony: Essay: A Baboon’s Life
Opis strony: An essay written by Robert Sapolsky in 1996 on violence between male baboons, aging and friendship.
Adres: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9607/9607essy01.shtml

Tytuł strony: Ethology
Opis strony: Tables of contents, contacts and subscription information from this journal by Blackwell Publishing.
Adres: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0179-1613

Tytuł strony: The European Union for Bird Ringing
Opis strony: EURING coordinates bird ringing throughout Europe and promotes research needed to inform the conservation and scientific understanding of wild birds.
Adres: http://www.euring.org

Tytuł strony: The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies
Opis strony: Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and discussing the extent to which hoverflies succeed in mimicing bees, wasps and bumblebees. [PDF]
Adres: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000096/01/ImperfectMimicry.pdf

Tytuł strony: Fauna Communications Research
Opis strony: Institute that researches bioacoustics and animal communication, especially of endangered species.
Adres: http://animalvoice.com/

Tytuł strony: Figs and Fig Wasps
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.figweb.org/

Tytuł strony: The Finch Self-Medication Website
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://astorwilliam.tripod.com/

Tytuł strony: Fish and Shrimp Interactions
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/fish_invert_ecology/predator_prey/fish_shrimp.jsp

Tytuł strony: Fish Behaviour
Opis strony: Describes certain behaviors that can indicate pain in fish and the behavioral evidence for the perception of pain by fish.
Adres: http://www.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalwelfare/Fish%20pain/Behaviour.htm

Tytuł strony: Flocker 1.1
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.behav.org/flocker.htm

Tytuł strony: Fongoli Chimps
Opis strony: Article from the National Geographic Magazine on how the chimpanzees on the savannas of Senegal are hunting bush babies with spearlike sticks.
Adres: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/chimps-with-spears/mary-roach-text.html

Tytuł strony: The Gordon Lab
Opis strony: A long-term study of ant colony behavior, organization and ecology undertaken by Deborah Gordon and her colleagues at Stanford University.
Adres: http://www.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/

Tytuł strony: Group Mobbing Behaviour and Nest Defence
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/ethology.pdf

Tytuł strony: Group Predation of Lions
Opis strony: An investigation into the visual cues required to coordinate the complex cooperative behavior involved in hunting. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~amb/papers/lionsIJCAI05.pdf

Tytuł strony: Historical Information about Animal Cognition
Opis strony: A brief survey of important scientists in the history of the study of animal behavior.
Adres: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm

Tytuł strony: Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois
Opis strony: Research in Gene E. Robinson's lab that studies the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.
Adres: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/

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

Tytuł strony: Hummingbirds and Torpor
Opis strony: Article by Devorah Bennu on the strategy used by hummingbirds to conserve energy in order to survive long cold nights.
Adres: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/04/hummingbirds_and_torpor.php

Tytuł strony: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Animal Architecture
Opis strony: Dr Michael Hansell has built up an extensive collection of animal artefacts, mainly bird and insect nests but also other fascinating items.
Adres: http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/zoology/animals/animal_architecture.shtml

Tytuł strony: Kohler’s Research on the Mentality of Apes
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/kohler.htm

Tytuł strony: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology
Opis strony: Austrian organization that investigates major unsolved problems in behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
Adres: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/klivv/

Tytuł strony: Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/grp/animal-ecology/en/

Tytuł strony: Long-distance Land Bird Migration
Opis strony: This article discusses the reasons for migration, its advantages and disadvantages, and the different patterns of migration adopted by different bird groups.
Adres: http://petcaretips.net/bird-migration.html

Tytuł strony: Mammal Research at JCU
Opis strony: Researchers at James Cook University are studying the life histories of several endangered Australian marsupials.
Adres: http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/auxillry/mammals/mamres.html

Tytuł strony: Mammalian Hibernation
Opis strony: Article by Ken Muldrew on mammalian hibernation, sleep and torpor.
Adres: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~kmuldrew/cryo_course/cryo_chap12_1.html

Tytuł strony: Movie Archives of Animal Behavior
Opis strony: An online animal behavior video database available in various formats. Most clips filmed in Japan.
Adres: http://www.momo-p.com/index-e.html

Tytuł strony: Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/14/4/503

Tytuł strony: The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/081NestbApes_E.html

Tytuł strony: Nests and Nest-Building in Birds
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2005/metada05/pdf/introduction.pdf

Tytuł strony: Oklahoma University Behavioral Neuroscience
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.ou.edu/oubns/

Tytuł strony: Ontologies for Ethology
Opis strony: Peter E. Midford's research in coding animal behavior descriptions, particularly ethograms using ontology.
Adres: http://www.mesquiteproject.org/ontology/

Tytuł strony: Overview of Our Research on the Variable Field Cricket
Opis strony: 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
Adres: http://cricket.unl.edu/research.html

Tytuł strony: Partnership in Birds
Opis strony: Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and why such divorces occur. [PDF]
Adres: http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/behavecol/jstacy_desertion.pdf

Tytuł strony: Pelican Lagoon Research Centre
Opis strony: This centre in Australia provides habitats for long term field studies, especially on monotremes, free from the impact of introduced species.
Adres: http://www.echidna.edu.au

Tytuł strony: The Peripheral Auditory Characteristics of Noctuid Moths
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/199/4/857.pdf

Tytuł strony: Personality Gene Makes Songbirds Curious
Opis strony: Max Planck scientists find evidence for an association between gene variants and exploratory behavior in great tits. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/meisen_en.pdf

Tytuł strony: Phenology
Opis strony: Animal activity and growth responses to seasonal climatic changes. Discussion of phenology data on animal cycles of life.
Adres: http://sws-wis.com/lifecycles/

Tytuł strony: The Pherobase
Opis strony: A searchable database of insect pheromones and semiochemicals, now covering over 7000 species of insect.
Adres: http://www.pherobase.com

Tytuł strony: Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids
Opis strony: Paper by Marc Bekoff discussing the use by animals of specific signals primarily to initiate or maintain social play.
Adres: http://cogprints.org/158/00/199709003.html

Tytuł strony: Processing Towards Life
Opis strony: 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
Adres: http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2861

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

Tytuł strony: ReefQuest
Opis strony: A comprehensive source of information on the biology of sharks and rays including behavioral studies.
Adres: http://www.elasmo-research.org/site_map.htm

Tytuł strony: A Reproductive Dictatorship: Naked Mole-rats
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/CGFNMR.htm

Tytuł strony: Research Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology (BPERC)
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.une.edu.au/zoology/bperc.php

Tytuł strony: Research Projects in the Mammal Research Unit
Opis strony: Details of the current research projects being undertaken at the Mammal Research Unit at Bristol University, England.
Adres: http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/mammal/research.html

Tytuł strony: Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne
Opis strony: Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines.
Adres: http://www.camargue.unibas.ch

Tytuł strony: Robot Modelling of Insect Proto-Cognition
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/PROPOSALS/smith_thesis_proposal.pdf

Tytuł strony: The Ryan Lab
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/ryan/

Tytuł strony: Sexual Conflict, Ecology and Breeding Systems in Shorebirds
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://www.bath.ac.uk/bio-sci/biodiversity-lab/publications/BioScience_Octobert2006.pdf

Tytuł strony: Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds
Opis strony: Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding the evolution of the complex sexual male displays in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
Adres: http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/borgialab/

Tytuł strony: Slagsvold Group
Opis strony: A research group at the University of Oslo, Norway. Primary focus is on the study of sexual imprinting in small passerines.
Adres: http://folk.uio.no/larsejo/tits/index.php

Tytuł strony: Social Behaviour of African Wild Dogs
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/mbiolsci/green-kathleen/level3dissertation.pdf

Tytuł strony: Stress and the City: Urban Birds Keep Cool
Opis strony: Ornithologists at the Max Planck Society demonstrate that urban birds are more resistant to acute stress than forest dwelling birds. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/stress_en.pdf

Tytuł strony: Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/46/bbs00000546-00/bbs.heyes.html

Tytuł strony: Too Mellow for our Predatory World
Opis strony: Article from the Max Planck Society on research examining flexibility in flight behavior in marine iguanas on the Galapagos Islands. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/echsen_en.pdf

Tytuł strony: Trade-offs Between Extraterritorial Prospecting and Helping in a Cooperative Mammal
Opis strony: Researchers at Cambridge University investigated whether male meerkats trade off their cooperative contributions to pup feeding against searching for mating and dispersal opportunities. [PDF]
Adres: http://rom.ex.ac.uk/documents/Bios/ajy204/Young%20et%20al%202005%20-%20Trade-offs%20between%20prospecting%20and%20helping%20in%20meerkats.pdf

Tytuł strony: Unfaithful Songbirds Increase Offspring Fitness
Opis strony: Article from the Max Planck Society on research showing that female promiscuity can reduce the negative consequences of inbreeding in socially monogamous birds. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/blaumeisen_en.pdf

Tytuł strony: Universal Parasitism and the Co-evolution of Extended Phenotypes
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1989univpara.shtml

Tytuł strony: University of Los Andes Frog Research
Opis strony: Group working on frog behavior and ecophysiology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Adres: http://gecoh.uniandes.edu.co

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

Tytuł strony: Variation in Lekking Costs in Blackbuck
Opis strony: 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]
Adres: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/kavita/Isvaran_Jhala_2000.pdf

Tytuł strony: Wanted: A Reason to Divorce
Opis strony: Max Planck scientists find evidence that marriage crises in blue tits are probably caused by other females. [PDF]
Adres: http://www.orn.mpg.de/aktuelles/presse/scheidung_en.pdf

Tytuł strony: Warning Colour and Mimicry
Opis strony: 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.
Adres: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbhdjm/courses/b242/Mimic/Mimic.html

Tytuł strony: Why Grandmothers?
Opis strony: Article by Devorah Bennu examining whether grandmothers play any part in the cooperative rearing of young birds.
Adres: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/09/why_grandmothers.php

Tytuł strony: Wolf and Wildlife Studies
Opis strony: Discusses ongoing field research concerning the behavioral habits of the Fishtrap wolf pack in northwest Montana.
Adres: http://www.wolfandwildlifestudies.com

Tytuł strony: Wolf Behavior
Opis strony: Dedicated to the general public education of the behavioral habits of the wolf. Includes data on reproduction and diet.
Adres: http://www.freewebs.com/alphawolfsabrina/

Tytuł strony: World on the Move: Great Animal Migrations
Opis strony: BBC's Natural History Unit gathers information from correspondents, scientists and amateur naturalists to monitor migrating mammals, birds and insects as they travel.
Adres: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/worldonthemove/

Tytuł strony: NPR: Animal Thought and Communication
Opis strony: Ira Flatow and guests look at thought and communication in apes, gorillas and monkeys [Real Audio broadcast]. <small>(January 16, 2004)</small>
Adres: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1601349

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