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Sexual Selection in Bowerbirds
Research at the Borgia Lab concentrates on understanding the evolution of the complex sexual male displays in the Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.
http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/borgialab/
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Multiple Sexual Ornaments in Satin Bowerbirds
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.
http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/14/4/503
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Bear Center Conducts Hibernation Study
Article by Lynne L Rogers who has studied black bear behavior and ecology in northeastern Minnesota since 1969.
http://www.bear.org/Black/BlackBearResearch/Bear_Center_Conducts_Hibernation_Study.html
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Cospeciation and Rates of Evolution in Lice and Birds: a Molecular Approach
How old is the association between a given parasite and its host? Rod Page at the University of Glasgow tries to answer this question.
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/Jobs/NERC/seabird.html
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The Evolution of Imperfect Mimicry in Hoverflies
Article by Francis Gilbert describing Batesian mimicry and discussing the extent to which hoverflies succeed in mimicing bees, wasps and bumblebees.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/archive/00000096/01/ImperfectMimicry.pdf
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Causes and Consequences of a Lack of Coevolution in Mullerian Mimicry
Article by James Mallet in which he discusses whether the unpalatable species that copy one another for their mutual benefit evolved together.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/pap/mimcoev.pdf
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Warning Colour and Mimicry
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.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbhdjm/courses/b242/Mimic/Mimic.html
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The Nest Building Behaviour of Higher Apes
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.
http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/081NestbApes_E.html
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Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates
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.
http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/46/bbs00000546-00/bbs.heyes.html
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Historical Information about Animal Cognition
A brief survey of important scientists in the history of the study of animal behavior.
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm
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