Animal Behavior
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• Basics, Introductions, Hyperlinks
• Theories, Terms and Notes
• History, Biographies
• Mimicry, Warning Coloration and Camoflage
• Dominance. Territoriality & Migration
• Courtship, Reproductive Behavior
• Social Behavior, Signaling, Communication, Cognitive Science
• Behavior by Organism
• Labs and Field Activities
• Unit Photos, Illustrations, GIF's
Basics, Introductions
Animal Behavior I — Extensive links
http://www.lions.odu.edu/~kkilburn/nbvhome.htm

Animal Behavior II
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622782/
description#description
 
Animals (Africa) — Synopses: habitats diet, behavior, etc.
http://www.wildlifeafrica.co.za/animalbehavior.html
 
Animals (USA) — 123 animal links: classification habitats, diet, behavior, etc
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nw4.htm
 
Animal Behavior — Outline, notes
http://zebra.biol.sc.edu/biology/courses/bio102/41-ol.html
 
Animal Behavior Articles — 18 hyperlinked articles
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/bulletin.html#index
 
Animal Behavior Links I —16 hyperlinked topics
http://www.officeport.com/enrich/links/animalbehavior.htm
 
Animal Behavior Links II
http://mercury.bio.uaf.edu/courses/biol441/links.html
 
Animal Behavior Labs and Teaching Links
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/kmorgan/AB_Teachers'_Page/Teacher_page.html
 
Animal Behavior Program — Extensive to[ical hyperlinks
http://www.cbu.edu/~aross/animbeh/Animal_Behavior.htm
 
Animal Behavior Studies — Brief historical outline of behavior
http://www.biol.sc.edu/courses/bio102/41-ol.html
 
Animal Foraging: Operant chamber — Behavior project
http://escience.bethelks.edu/psych/Optimalforagingnotes.htm
 
Behavioral Adaptations: Animals 
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep1.htm
 
Behavioral Ecology 
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/beheco/scope/
 
Behavioral Genetics
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/behavior.shtml
 
Behavioral Studies — Brief outlined history
http://zebra.biol.sc.edu/biology/courses/bio102/41-ol.html
 
Behavior: Evolution
http://biomed.brown.edu/Courses/BIO48/16.Evol.Behavior.HTML
 
Behavior: Genetic Contributers
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/resource/people.shtml
 
Behaviorism: Early Roots
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Psych/rwozniak/roots.html
 
Biological Clocks I
http://www.thehormoneshop.com/biologicalclocks.htmiological Clocks
 
Biological Clocks II
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bioclock.cfmow Biological Clocks Work
 
Biological Clocks III
http://www.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/bio_clocks.html
 
Biological Clock (Circadium Rhythms)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bioclock.cfm
 
Biological Clock and Circadium Rhythms I — Info
http://template.bio.warwick.ac.uk/staff/amillar/circad.html
 
Biological Clock and Circadium Rhythms II — Function
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bioclock.cfm
 
Biological Clocks and Circadian Rhythms III
http://www.allsciencestuff.com/mbiology/research/circadian
 
Biological Clocks: How They Work
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bioclock.cfm
 
Circadian Rhythms I
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Circadian.html
 
Circadian Rhythms II — Links to recent research
http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu/topic.php?topic_id=42esearch Matters: Circadian rhythm
 
Ethograms — Lab work sheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_etho.html
 
Ethology — Introduction, illustrations
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ethology/ethology_main.htm
 
Social Insect Societies: Origin, Structure
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030929054959.htm
Theories, Terms and Notes
Conditioning: Types
http://www.science.wayne.edu/~wpoff/cor/mem/condtype.html
 
Reflex and Pavlovian Conditioning
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/reflex.html#Pavlovian%20conditioning
Habituation — Very briefly defined
http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.cfm?term=Habituation
 
Imprinting Problem I — Social bond formation in young birds
http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/vth/wildbird/WBC/imprinti.html
 
Imprinting Problem II — Social bond formation in young birds
http://samiam.colorado.edu/~mcclella/expersim/introimprint.html
 
Imprinting — Social bonding in young birds
http://samiam.colorado.edu/~mcclella/expersim/introimprint.html
 
Innate Behavior — Discussion, illustrations; types of behavior
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/I/InnateBehavior.html
 
Inate Behavior
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/I/InnateBehavior.html
 
Inate Behavior: Triggers
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/d220.html
 
Learned Behavior — Definitions, discussion, internal links
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/L/LearnedBehavior.html
 
Operant Conditioning I
http://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/genetics/behavior/learning/operant.html
 
Operant Conditioning II
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/opcondition.html
 
Operant Conditioning and Behaviorism — Historical outline
http://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/genetics/behavior/learning/behaviorism.html
 
Operant Response Reinforcers
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/reinforcement.html#reinforcer
Pavlovian Conditioning — Information, definitions, diagram
http://www.brembs.net/learning/classical.html
 
Pavlovian Conditioning: Reflex
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/wasserman/Glossary/reflex.html
 
Stimuli — Environmental events that influence behavior
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/stimuli.html#discriminative%20stimulus
Taxes — Animal Behavior
http://www.lapc.cc.ca.us/usr/wellsr/pages/BEHAV1Lw.doc
 
Taxes: Locomotion Response
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/T/Taxes.html
 
Taxis  & Kinesis — Lab animal behavior
http://www.edvotek.com/pdfs/291.pdf
 
Three-term Contingency — Discriminative stimulus, operant response, and reinforcer/punisher (Skinner)
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/3Tconting.html
 
Skinner Box — Operant conditioning chamber
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Wasserman/Glossary/Skinner%20Box.html
History, Biographies
Animal Behavior Society
http://www.animalbehavior.org/
 
Behavioral Studies: History — Outlined notes
http://www.biol.sc.edu/courses/bio102/41-ol.html
 
Goodall, Jane — Speaks on humans, habitats and Primates
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/events/goodall/story.html
 
Pavlov, Ivan — Biography
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhpavl.html
 
Tinbergen, Nicolass — Autobiography
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/medicine-1973-3-autobio.html
 
Tinbergen, Nicolaas — Brief biography
http://bric.postech.ac.kr/science/97now/99_4now/990415d.html
 
von Frisch, Karl — Autobiography
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973/frisch-autobio.html
Mimicry, Warning Coloration and Camoflage
Mimicry I — Many illustrations
http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/questions/dp_transformation/dp_trans_adapt_mimic.html
 
Mimicry II — Columbia electronic library
http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20mimicry
 
Mimicry III — Information and student activities
http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEPC/WWC/1995/mimicry.html
 
Mimicry — Insects
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/topics/mimicry.htm
 
Protective Coloration — Encyclopedia article with hyperlinks
http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20protective%20coloration
Dominance. Territoriality & Migration
Bird Flight: V Formation
http://www.physlink.com/ae78.cfm

Bird Flight: V Formation — Geese
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99550.htm
 
Bird Migration I — Questions and answers
http://whyfiles.org/006migration/fact_sheet.html

Bird Migration II — Info, hyperlinks
http://www.birdnature.com/migration.html

Bird Migration III — Extensive info
http://birding.about.com/library/weekly/aa032898.htm
 
Dickcissel and Red-Winged Blackbird Territoriality
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/dickhab/dickhab.htm
 
Flock and School Behavior: Basics
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/flocks.htm
 
Male Supremacy Origins? — Bonobo sex and ociety study
http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html
 
Migration I —  Links to migrating animal species
http://sln.fi.edu/qa96/spotlight4/spotlight4.html
 
Migration II
http://whyfiles.org/006migration/index.html
 
Migration: Monarchs — Research, conservation
http://www.monarchwatch.org/
 
Migration and Navigation — Birds and other organisms
http://www.ornithology.com/lectures/MigrandNavig.html
 
Migration, Navigation and Orientation
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/migranmls_OrientationandNavigation.asp
 
School and Flock Behavior: Basics
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/flocks.htm
 
Territoriality
http://www.stcloudstate.edu/~jaz/psy373/territoriality.html
Courtship/Reproductive Behavior
Mating Systems and Parental Care
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/courses/ent104/docs/15_Parental_Care.pdf
 
Sexual Selection
http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/PopGen500/Discussion3/Overheads.html
 
Parthenogenesis — Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/partheno.html
 
Pheromones
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/fst/faculty/acree/pheronet/pherom.html
 
Reproductive Strategies: Evolution
http://www.ebc.uu.se/zooeko/FredrikW/Reprod.html
Social Behavior, Signaling, Communication, Cognitive Science
Alarm Call Behavior
http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/behavecolpapers.htm
 
Animal Cognitive Ecology — A new science (Gould and Lewontin)
http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/white_shark/cognition.htm
 
Bee Behavior I — Info, links
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/HBBiology/bee_behavior.htm
Bee Behavior II — Info
http://www.beesource.com/pov/usda/beekpUSA33.htm
 
Bee Communication — Karl von Frisch
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
 
Bee Dance language and Orientation
Inhttp://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf8.html
 
Foraging Theory: Optomization
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/Ecology/role_of_satisficing_in_foraging_.htm
 
Goodall, Jane: Wild Chimpanzees
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/goodall/story.html
 
Parental Care I
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/birdsite/text/essays/Parental_Care.html
 
Parental Care II
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~blohr/parent.htm
 
Signaling Theory
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/signalling/main_sig.html
 
Taxis and Kinesis — Orientation and navigation
http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/animalbehavior/orientationandnavigation/section1.html
Behavior by Organism
Ant Behavior
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/RealAnts.html
 
Ant Studies: Myrmecology
http://www.myrmecology.org/
 
Bee Communication — Karl von Frisch
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
 
Bee Dance language and Orientation — Karl von Frisch
Inhttp://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/inf8.html
 
Bees: Dancing under a Polarized Sky — Honeybee navigation
http://www.polarization.com/bees/bees.html

Bees: the Individual and the Colony
http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~vista/html_pubs/BEEKEEP/CHAPT1/chap1.html
 
Bird Behavior
http://biology.about.com/education/biology/msubanbehavbird.html
 
Bowerbird Courtship
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/bowerbird/html/body_amorous.html
 
Bowerbird: Interactive Signaling
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Stars/Allee/Allee2002/Allee_2002.html
 
Cicada Killer Wasp and Other Digger Wasps
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/bdigwas.html
 
Chimpanzee Hunting Habits — Clues about human ancestry
http://www.usc.edu/ext-relations/news_service/chronicle_html/1995.02.06.html/chimp.html
 
Crickets — Info, brief notes on behavior
http://www.gpnc.org/field1.htm
 
Dickcissel and Red-Winged Blackbird Territoriality
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/dickhab/dickhab.htm
 
Firefly Courtship
http://www.post1.com/home/naturesingapore/firefly2.htm
 
Firefly: Fatal Attraction
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/97/9.4.97/firefly.html
 
Firefly Flash Communication
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/papers_1999/matthies.htm
 
Firefly Flash Signaling: Effect of Predation on Evolution
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/papers_1997/stous.html
 
Firefly Mimicry and Murder
http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/Aug97/luredandliquidated.hrs.html
 
Goslings I — Imprinting, brief description
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/family/howardsh/imprint.htm
 
Goslings II — Imprinting, brief description; Konrad Lorenz
http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/psy/ch06/imprint.mhtml
 
Herring Gull
http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Environment/Advocates/Anim/gull.html
 
Herring Gull Master List — 4 nice linked topics
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/mlist/h0510.html
 
Honey Bee Communication
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/B/BeeDances.html
 
Howler Monkey Behavior
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/slidesets/behavior/Behavior38.html
 
Hyena Females with Male Hormones
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA06/hyena.html
 
Parrot, Hookbill Behavior Basics
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/hookbills.htm
 
Poison Arrow Frog I
http://www.nashvillezoo.org/blfrog.htm
 
Predator and Prey Interactions
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/catoft/EVE101/Lec7pred.htm
 
Primates — Anatomy, behavior, ecology, evolution
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/aboutp.html
 
Rat Behavior: Observations
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/squirrels.htm
 
Salmon, Young
http://www.cyberlearn.com/terred.htm
 
Squirrel Behavior: Observations
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/squirrels.htm
 
Stickleback Behavior — Learning and Instinct
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/archive/ABB/1996_1(1).html
Labs and Field Activities
Animal Behavior Lab Exercises
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/
 
Animal Behavior Lab Exercises — Introduction
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_intro.html
 
Animal Behavior Observations
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1994/peebles_behavior.html
 
Ant Lion Behavior
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/NSTA-share/Williamson.html
 
Birds: Interspecific Flocking
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_flocking.html
 
Birds: Interspecific Flocking Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_flocking.html
 
Community Ordination: Utilizing Winter Stoneflies — Winter field observations.
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able/volumes/vol-9/3-lawre/3-lawre.htm
 
Crickets and Territorial Defense
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_territory.html
 
Crickets and Territorial Defense Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_territory.html
 
Fireflies: Activity for Kids
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/allyr/yf807.htm
 
Fish: Schooling Behavior
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_schooling.html
 
Fish: Schooling Behavior Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_schooling.html
 
Flocking Behavior Simulation
http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/floys/simulation.htm
 
Humans: Weight Lifting — Sexual selection
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_sexual_selection.html
 
Humans: Weight Lifting Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_sexual_selection.html
 
Inbreeding Depression and the Evolutionary Advantage of Outbreeding — Lab exercise
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able/volumes/vol-15/12-ecker/12-ecker.htm
 
Mice Ethograms — Lab exercise
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_etho.html
 
Mice Ethograms Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_etho.html
 
Monarch Migration
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/AEF/1996/elliott_internet.html
 
Orientation Behavior Investigation — Lab exercise
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able/volumes/vol-6/1-glase/1-glase.htm
 
Shrimp: Color Control — Environmental factors on pigment dispersion. Lab exercise
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/able/volumes/vol-11/2-ohall/2-ohall.htm
 
Squirrels: Food Selection
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/lab_food_selection.html
 
Squirrels: Food Selection Lab Worksheet
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/wrk_food_selection.html
Unit Photos, Illustrations, GIF's
Goodall, Jane
http://www.visiontv.ca/Media/photogallery/photos/Jane%20Goodall.jpg
 
Pavlov, Ivan
http://www.sonoma.edu/psychology/images/pavlov.jpg

Tinbergen, Nicolass
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973/tinbergen-autobio.html

von Frisch, Karl
http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1973/frisch-autobio.html

Lorenz, Konrad
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.data.image.l/l863333a.jpg

Skinner, B. F.
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/wasserman/Glossary/skinner.jpg