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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
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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
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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.
http://nature.berkeley.edu/evolab/suresh/PDF-Files/Benjamin%20&%20Zschokke%202002.pdf
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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
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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.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/DEEB/ka/abstracts/lhistory.pdf
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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
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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
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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
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Partnership in Birds
Article discussing monogamous birds and those that change partner, and why such divorces occur.
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/behavecol/jstacy_desertion.pdf
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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.
http://cognition.icapb.ed.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Healy00.pdf
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