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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
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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.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/mbiolsci/green-kathleen/level3dissertation.pdf
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Chimpanzee Cultures
A searchable database of chimpanzee cultural behaviors.
http://culture.st-and.ac.uk/chimp/
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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/
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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
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Chelonian Research Foundation
This foundation supports worldwide turtle and tortoise research and produces a journal – Chelian Conservation and Biology.
http://www.chelonian.org/
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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
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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
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Chris_Tofts/Papers/SocialInsects.pdf
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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.
http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/PROPOSALS/smith_thesis_proposal.pdf
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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.
http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/minibrain.pdf
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