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Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Consider the following words: The evidence supporting evolution is overwhelming and comes from diverse disciplines, such as molecular biology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, ethology, and biochemistry. There is no controversy among biologists about whether evolution occurs, nor are there science-based alternative theories. Evolution is a unifying theme in biology; teaching it as such is the best...
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Neurophilosophy (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Nearly 70 years ago, Karl von Frisch described a peculiar behaviour in a species of small freshwater fish called the European minnow ( Phoxinus phoxinus ). Frisch, who was one of the founders ethology - the scientific study of animal behaviour - demonstrated that a minnow was eaten by a predator, a chemical released from its damaged skin elicited an alarm response in other minnows that were close...
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Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
tags: Alex And Me: A 30-Year Adventure , ethology , cognition , learning , parrots , Irene Pepperberg , book review As a scientist, parrot researcher, aviculturist and parrot owner, I have met Irene Pepperberg several times, at both scientific meetings and also at avicultural meetings, and I have followed her research closely (but quietly) for most of my life. So, when Seed Media, which hosts all...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
BROWSING the Journal of Ethology, the Anorak happens upon the case of the Antarctic fur seal attempting coitus with a king penguin. This might have been going on for years, but that it should come to light now is not without scientific interest. “At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin,” says Nico de [...]
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Dogster For The Love of Dog Blog (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
Csaba Monar barked in to tell us about what looks to be a truly ground-breaking scientific conference in Budapest, Huangary this July. If I could, I’d be there for this! If You know of anyone working in any area of canine sciences, please pass this on to them. The Department of Ethology, [...]
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ZDNet (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
Scientists find that computers can interpret emotions based on a dog's bark, but people do a decent job of it, too. Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar...
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Ephemeral Ruminations (Free subscription) | 14/10/2007
Always having been interested in Ethology, I often get totally absorbed in watching animals', birds’ and other creatures’ behavioural patterns. And so this morning, whilst feeding the chickens some left-over crumbs of bread, I noticed a leech on Buster’s nose, removed it and bunged it in towards the hens that were waiting for more handouts. The [...]
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Genetic Archaeology News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2007
In the September issue of The American Naturalist, Juan Carranza (Biology and Ethology Unit, University of Extremadura, Spain) and Javier P?rez-Barber?a (Macaulay Institute, United Kingdom) offer a new explanation for why males of ungulate species subjected to intense competition are born with lower survival expectancies than females.
