61. Comparative Ethology Of New Zealand Parrots | UNL Center For Avian Cognition Comparative ethology of New Zealand Parrots. Research Summary Publications Links UNL Center for Avian Cognition http://www.biosci.unl.edu/avcog/research/kea.htm

Affiliated Personnel Dr. Alan B. Bond Dr. Judy Diamond Lynnsey Morrison Comparative Ethology of Parrots Research Summary Publications Links UNL Center for Avian Cognition The Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior of Keas Keas ( Nestor notabilis ) are large, omnivorous olive-green parrots that are endemic to alpine scrub and mountain beech forests on the South Island of New Zealand. They are compulsively neophilic, fearless, persistent, and ingeniously destructive. They congregate around rich food resources, displaying a complex, stratified social system; juveniles associate with both related and unrelated adults for several years after fledging, following them around and apparently imitating their foraging behavior. And they show more elaborate and ritualized social play than any other species of bird. But what primarily attracted us to the species was the suggestion that they were "open program" animals, species that were specialized for learning and that displayed an unusual ability to adapt to changing conditions and circumstances. Social Foraging and Ontogeny Comparative Field Studies of Social Play In our review, we argued that many of the more unusual features of kea behavior could be considered as specific adaptations to their harsh and unreliable habitat in the high alpine regions, which suggested a fertile ground for subsequent comparative research. The species most closely related to the kea is the kaka (

62. Thoughts On Human And Rat Ethology Thoughts on human and rat ethology. Human and rat dominance. I am intrigued by the flipand-pee method advocated by some rat owners to get rats to be less http://www.ratbehavior.org/HumanEthology.htm

Home What is my rat doing? FAQ : Thoughts on human and rat ethology Thoughts on human and rat ethology Human and rat dominance I am intrigued by the flip-and-pee method advocated by some rat owners to get rats to be less aggressive towards each other or towards their human owner. This method involves flipping the rat over on its back, yelling at it, rubbing one's own human urine into its fur, and repeating this at random intervals until the rat is appropriately subordinated. Here is a description of the method from a proponent: Proponents believe that by doing this they are acting just like a dominant rat, and by taking over the dominant rat's role and subordinating their pets these rats will not be aggressive towards each other or their owner. This method and the assumptions that underlie it are misguided, as described in the sections of the FAQ entitled Should I pee on my rat? and Should I flip my rat over and yell at him? However, this does not answer a fascinating question: why is this method so appealing to human owners? I think there are three reasons for this method's appeal: 1. Speaking rat

63. BioEd Online Slides: Ethology, Behavior, Cognition ethology, the study of the evolution and functional significance of behavior, originated in the 1800s with C.O. Whitman, who studied display patterns in http://www.bioedonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?q=ethology

64. Holy Cross College: Biology 287 -- A Course In Ethology And Behavioral Ecology Finish cognitive ethology with class discussion on fairness and personality in animals (see before break reading assignment. http://www.holycross.edu/departments/biology/kprestwi/behavior/

Ethology and Behavioral Ecology (Biology 287) Dr. Ken Prestwich Class Materials and Schedule Spring Semester 2008 College of the Holy Cross An American woodcock, Scolopax mino r. The buzzing calls and spectacular flights of males are evident in fields in marshes in the spring in central Massachusetts. Photo by KN Prestwich (taken in my marsh.) Thursday April 3 - shorebird link fixed. Wednesday April 2 Be ready for discussion on Friday. Be sure that you have read the notes on the disk equation, that you have read the paper on foraging in oystercatcher birds and that you can answer all the questions, and that you have read the easy but interesting chapter on anti-predation behavior. I will mainly take questions and ask a few on that chapter the focus will be on optimal foraging. On-line discussion instructions CHC Moodle Login SKIP TO PRESENT CLASS COURSE INFORMATION SHEET ... Instructions for Paper Take home questions #1 (due Feb. 29) Instructions for class presentation Ethogram Assignment (due Jan 28) Acoustics or optimal foraging exercise Kinematic Diagram Data and Assignment (due Feb. 18)

65. ARS Project: ETHOLOGY OF FOOD PRODUCING ANIMALS (407000) Research Project ethology OF FOOD PRODUCING ANIMALS. Location Livestock Behavior Research. Project Number 360232000-006-00 Project Type Appropriated http://genes.pp.ksu.edu/research/projects/projects.htm?ACCN_NO=407000

66. Notes On Human Ethology Human ethology is a subdiscipline of Biology that studies the biological bases of behavior. The field used to be called comparative psychology (animal http://www.unm.edu/~jka/courses/archive/ethol.html

Notes on Human Ethology Human Ethology is a subdiscipline of Biology that studies the biological bases of behavior. The field used to be called comparative psychology (animal psychology). Ethological theory draws upon Darwin's theory of evolution. Human ethologists also incorporated ideas from psychoanalytic theory (Freud) into their analyses. Today, evolutionary psychologists continue on the tradition of using evolutionary theory as a guide for understanding human behavior patterns. Ethological research focuses on human and animal behavior as it occurs in natural environments, particularly as it occurs in the environments to which a species has to adapt during the course of its evolutionary history. Ethological Research employs naturalistic observation and sometimes uses natural experiments. Ethologists prefer experiments in natural settings to those conducted in laboratories. Key Concepts associated with ethology include 1) fixed action patterns (innate, promote individual survival - nut-opening in squirrels, nest building in birds, human crying and smiling), 2) sign stimuli (releasers or triggers for fixed action patterns)

67. Synthetic Ethology And The Evolution Of Cooperative Communication Synthetic ethology and the evolution of cooperative communication. Source, Adaptive Behavior archive Volume 2 , Issue 2 (Fall 1993) table of contents http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=184224&dl=&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=618

68. USNews.com: America's Best Colleges 2008: Majors: Animal Behavior And Ethology The following schools offer Animal Behavior and ethology. Click on an institution s name to see a brief profile. To learn more about its academic offerings http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/majors/brief/major_26-0708_brief.php

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69. Methods In Ethology Your browser may not have a PDF reader available. Google recommends visiting our text version of this document. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/202/4364/213.pdf?ck=nck

70. Ethology Vs. Evolutionary Psychology, Or Stress And The Hungry Dinosaur ethology vs. Evolutionary Psychology, or Stress and the Hungry Dinosaur. http://flowstate.homestead.com/ethology.html

...or Stress and the Hungry Dinosaur First, a mind experiment. Choose a sex symbol from the options below : Evolutionary Psychology: the phrenology of the 21st century Ok. Now assume that your sex symbol actually knows about you and wants to meet you. Now think about how you'd react. Now, assume that your sex symbol not only wants to meet you but wants to date you. Again, think about how you'd react. Now, assume that your sex symbol not only wants to meet you, but also wants to share bodily fluids and DNA with you. Again, think about how you'd react. Assuming that you are a normal homo sapiens, or even an abnormal one, you can presume that you would express a feeling of mild interest to sexual arousal depending upon what you anticipate your relationship to your sex symbol will be. However, as our reactions escalate, they also change in kind as different biochemical, neurological, and physical reactions begin to kick in. Of course, common sense and shared experience tells us that for sex, an initial interest or anticipation does not represent a scaled down or 'lite' version of a full blown state of sexual arousal, since arousal represents physiological reactions that differ in type as well as in scale. Different reactions simply come about with different information, and one type of reaction does not occur to fit all. Now lets assume that you are a harried office worker. A day at the office may confront you with numerious tasks that have to be performed in certain ways and within certain times. Let's say that you have to do some office project before a 5pm deadline. If the deadline is missed, then you may have to postpone finishing the job until tomorrow, but the results may be merely inconvenience, a reprimand from your boss, or a gun to your head (particularly if you are an Iraqi office worker). As the results scale upwards in severity, different physiological changes also occur that are different in scale but also different in kind. Whereas inconvenience mainly gets us tense, a gun to our heads makes us panic or fearful as well as tense. Yet we would hardly call a daily inconvenience a mild version of panic, because we know that tension and fear are entirely different things.

71. Ethological - Definition Of Ethological By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus Definition of ethological in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of ethological. What does ethological mean? ethological synonyms, ethological antonyms. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ethological

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='ethology';WordListHost='w3.thefreedictionary.com' Printer Friendly 847,644,086 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia ethology (redirected from ethological 0.01 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) e·thol·o·gy -th l -j -th l n. The scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment. The study of human ethos and its formation. [French éthologie , from Latin thologia art of depicting character , from Greek thologi thos character ; see ethos -logi -logy eth o·log i·cal th -l j -k l) adj. e·thol o·gist n. ethology -th l -j -th l The scientific study of animal behavior, especially as it occurs in a natural environment. Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Noun ethology - the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats zoological science zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals write_ads(AdsNum, 0)

72. Primatology.net A weblog run by primatologists, overviewing current news, books, videos and other media. http://primatology.net/

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73. Untitled Document Worldwide organization of scientists who study animal behavior. Includes data on past and future conferences. http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/ice/

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