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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
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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.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/ethology.pdf
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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.
http://docserver.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/dissertation/2005/metada05/pdf/introduction.pdf
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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.
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/groups/ccnr/Papers/Downloads/Jackson_Behav2002.pdf
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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