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Ethology:     more books (100)

Chimpanzees in Western Africa (Studies in ethology) by Helmut Albrecht, 1971 The Quality of Life: The Peckham Approach to Human Ethology by Innes Hope Pearse, 1979-06 Contributions to the 3rd International Symposium on Physiology and Ethology of Wild and Zoo Animals, Berlin, Germany, 4-7 October 2000 (Advances in ethology) Artificial Ethology by Owen Holland, David McFarland, 2001-08-09 Ethology of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret (Advances in Ethology Series, Vol 31) Ethology: Standpoint, Method, Tentative Results (1899) by Thomas Pearce Bailey Jr., 2010-05-23 Perspectives in Ethology: Communication by Donald H. Owings, Michael D. Beecher, et all 1998-12-28 An Introduction to Ethology by P.J.B. Slater, 1989 The Behavioral significance of color (Garland series in ethology) Perspectives in Ethology: Alternatives by P.P.G. Bateson, Peter H. Klopfer, 1987-01-01 Wholeness and Holiness: A Study in Human Ethology and the Holy Trinity by J.D. Trotter, 2003-09 Perspectives in Ethology: Volume 10: Behavior and Evolution Ethology of Free-ranging Domestic Animals (Developments in Animal & Veterinary Sciences) by G.W. Arnold, M.L. Dudzinski, 1979-01 Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (Contributions in Latin American Studies) by Abel A. Alves, 1996-10-30

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81. Cognitive Ethology And The Explanation Of Nonhuman Animal Behavior
    Bekoff, Marc (1995) Cognitive ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior. Cognitiveethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior.  
    http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000157/00/199709002.html
    
    Extractions: Bekoff, Marc (1995) Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior. Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science. J.A. Meyer and H. L. Roitblat, eds 119-150. Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science. J.-A. Meyer and H. L. Roitblat, eds., Cambridge: MIT Press. Marc Bekoff Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309-0334 USA Tel: 00-1-303-443-6857 Fax: 00-1-303-443-2275 e-mail: bekoff_m@cubldr.colorado.edu In this paper I attempt to provide a convincing case for the importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing our knowledge of animal cognition. Cognitive ethology is broadly defined as the evolutionary and comparative study of nonhuman animal (hereafter animal) thought processes, consciousness, beliefs, or rationality, and is an area in which research is informed by different types of investigations and explanations. After (1) a brief discussion of the agenda of cognitive ethology, in which three different views of cognitive ethology are considered as is the relationship of cognitive ethology as a science to other branches of science, I (2) argue that folk psychological explanations and empirical data both are important to cognitive ethological research and conclude that the former are not as weak and as dispensable as some claim; (3) appeal to some case studies in recent analyses of social play behavior and antipredatory behavior (vigilance against potential predators) to make the point that folk psychology works well with empirical data and to provide examples in which the cognitive ethological perspective has proven to be a good heuristic; and (4) make some suggestions for future research. Cognitive ethology is alive, has a bright future, and has much to gain from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Comparative approaches to cognitive science are very fruitful and have much to offer.

82. Cluster For Physiology And Ethology - IBN/Biology/NSF
    Cluster for Physiology and ethology This cluster supports integrative studies ofphysiological functions at the genomic, cellular, systemic, and organismal  
    http://www.nsf.gov/bio/ibn/ibnphysio.htm
    
    Extractions: Other BIO Divisions and Programs Cluster for Physiology and Ethology This cluster supports integrative studies of physiological functions at the genomic, cellular, systemic, and organismal levels and animal behavior in both field and laboratory settings. Research areas in this cluster are arranged in the following groups. Animal Behavior Focuses on the mechanisms, development, functions, and evolution of all animal behavior, studied observationally and experimentally in laboratory and natural settings. Specific areas include behavioral ecology and evolution, nonhuman learning and cognition, behavioral genetics, development of behavior, behavioral physiology and motivation (including behavioral endocrinology), animal communication, and animal orientation. These areas are neither limiting nor mutually exclusive. Interdisciplinary collaborations and other projects that integrate diverse approaches, including functional genomics, to the study of behavior are particularly encouraged. This program also considers

83. Program Description:Physiology And Ethology
    DIRECTORATE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (BIO). INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY ANDNEUROSCIENCE (IBN). Physiology and ethology. This cluster supports  
    http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/progdesc/1998/bio/ibn/1141.htm
    
    Extractions: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (BIO) INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE (IBN) This cluster supports integrative studies of physiological functions at the cellular, systemic, and organismal levels and animal behavior in both field and laboratory settings. Research areas in this cluster are arranged in the following groups: Animal Behavior

84. E S-2003 SYLLABUS
    ethology AND SOCIOBIOLOGY EEB370 (sec tba)/Psych 370 (sec tba) Summer 2003 July10 Aug 7 Tues Thurs 500-815 Walters Life Science Bldg room M-415  
    http://www.bio.utk.edu/Neils.nsf/854ba168246c6472852563ee006f31ee/46fb81ed73088a

85. ETHOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 1998
    ethology AND SOCIOBIOLOGY EEB/Psychol 370 Spring 1998. (EEB. ethology and theEVOLUTION of BEHAVIOR resources, links. transdisciplinary connections.  
    http://www.bio.utk.edu/UniStudy.nsf/56cdb9b133ec6f548525657f0062a04a/46fb81ed730

86. Artificial Life And Synthetic Ethology
    Artificial Life and Synthetic ethology. `Synthetic ethology and the Evolution ofCooperative Communication,'' by Bruce J. MacLennan and Gordon M. Burghardt.  
    http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/alife.html
    
    Extractions: Artificial life has been defined as ``a field of study devoted to understanding life by attempting to abstract the fundamental dynamical principles underlying biological phenomena and recreating these dynamics in other physical media - such as computers - making them accessible to new kinds of experimental manipulation and testing'' (Chris Langton; for more, see Artificial Life ONLINE from Santa Fe). Synthetic ethology is an approach to the study of animal behavior in which simple, synthetic organisms are allowed to behave and evolve in a synthetic world. Because both the organisms and their worlds are synthetic, they can be constructed for specific purposes, particularly for testing specific hypotheses. The Emergence of Communication through Synthetic Evolution (compressed postscript) , Technical Report UT-CS-99-431, October 20, 1999. To appear in Advances in Evolutionary Synthesis of Neural Systems , edited by Vasant Honavar, Mukesh Patel, and Karthik Balakrishnan (MIT Press).

87. ETHOLOGY
    Parent Node(s) Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems. ethology.The newer definition URL= http//pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/ethology.html.  
    http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/ETHOLOGY.html

88. WFSC Ethology Lab Homepage
    Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to ethology@tamu.edu.Copyright © 1999 Texas A M University. All rights reserved.  
    http://canis.tamu.edu/wfscCourses/
    
    Extractions: Welcome to the website of the Ethology Lab in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences [WFSC] [TAMU] . The purpose of this website is to provide information on behavior of animals in natural settings, primarily from Conservation Biology and Zoo Biology perspectives. For an introduction, view this SLIDE SHOW You may also obtain technical support by telephone at (979)845-5300; online at CIS Help and by e-mail to cis@tamu.edu

89. NIC - Sci.bio.ethology
    Animal behavior and behavioral ecology. Gatewayed to ethology@searn.sunet.se.Readers 7600 (0.1%) {34%} Mesgs per month/day 141  
    http://metalab.unc.edu/usenet-i/groups-html/sci.bio.ethology.html

90. Konrad Lorenz Institute For Comparative Ethology
    Translate this page About us Main Info, Reasearch Research Program. The Institute, Publications. ProjectSurumoni. Seminar. Contact People, News Waldlehrpfad. (Main info), New Projects.  
    http://www.oeaw.ac.at/klivv/

91. Synthetic Ethology: An Approach To The Study Of Communication - MacLennan (Resea
    Synthetic ethology An Approach to the Study of Communication (1990) (Make Corrections)(53 citations) Bruce MacLennan Artificial Life II Home/Search Context  
    http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/maclennan90synthetic.html
    
    Extractions: Abstract: A complete understanding of communication, language, intentionality and related mental phenomena will require a theory integrating mechanistic explanations with ethological phenomena. For the foreseeable future, the complexities of natural life in its natural environment will preclude such an understanding. An approach more conducive to carefully controlled experiments and to the discovery of deep laws of great generality is to study synthetic life forms in a synthetic world to which they have... (Update)

92. Synthetic Ethology And The Evolution Of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan, B
    Synthetic ethology is proposed as a means of conducting controlled experiments investigatingthe mechanisms and evolution of communication. Synthetic ethology  
    http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/maclennan93synthetic.html
    
    Extractions: Abstract: . Synthetic ethology is proposed as a means of conducting controlled experiments investigating the mechanisms and evolution of communication. After a discussion of the goals and methods of synthetic ethology, two series of experiments are described based on at least 5000 breeding cycles. The first demonstrates the evolution of cooperative communication in a population of simple machines. The average fitness of the population and the organization of its use of signals are compared under three... (Update)

93. OUP USA: Artificial Ethology
    Science or Browse by Subject $50.00 (04) paper 0198510578 Add to My Basket 2001In Stock S H Standard Table of Contents, Artificial ethology OWEN HOLLAND  
    http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198510578.html
    
    Extractions: Modelling and computer simulations combined with empirical research are the traditional tools for the study of animal behavior. This exciting new book sets out to show how artificial ethology, or experimentation with animal-like robots, can add a new dimension to our understanding of behavioral questions. Thematic chapters scrutinizing major areas of research in animal behavior follow introductory chapters to modelling and robotics. Each thematic exploration is illustrated with case studies written by leading researchers in the field. From robotic lobsters to robotic 'monkeys', each case study brings the text to life, and gives a detailed description of a problem, approach, and robot application. This is a comprehensive introduction to the application of robotics in animal behavior and physiology.

94. Ethology - Department Of Zoology, University Of Hawaii
    ethology/Behavioral Ecology. Insects Dr. Kenneth Kaneshiro the dynamicsof sexual selection of Hawaiian Drosophilidae and the role  
    http://www.hawaii.edu/zoology/research/behavior.htm
    
    Extractions: Dr. Kim Holland - the physiological ecology of aquatic organisms and the interface between animal behavior and physiology; relating pelagic and nearshore fishes diel movements, home range sizes and swimming strategies to their foraging success and energy budgets. Dr. George Losey (Emeritus Faculty)- the behavioral control of sex change, analysis of social or symbiotic communication, the functions of UV-sensitive vision in marine fishes and invertebrates; cleaning symbiosis. Dr. Ernie Reese (Emeritus Faculty)- the relationship of food and feeding behavior to behavioral ecology and life history characteristics, coevolution of corals and reef fishes, orientation behavior of butterflyfishes, and the use of butterflyfishes as indicators of conditions on coral reefs. Dr. Timothy Tricas

95. Ethology
    ethology. Applied ethology Homepage (University of Saskatchewan) Appliedethology is a web page dedicated to the study of animal behaviour.  
    http://www.infochembio.ethz.ch/links/en/ethologie.html
    
    Extractions: 24 Stunden Riffleben (Starfish.Ch) - Text. Aggression bei Tieren - Text. Ameisen-Verhalten - Text und Abbildung. Animal Behavior Animal Behavior Resources on the Internet (Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group) - Links to information on professional societies, tables of contents for professional journals, research results, graduate programs, Usenet newsgroups, and mailing lists. Animal Behavior and Ethology - Introduction, Communication by Animals, Mating Behavior, Predation and Feeding Behavior, Physiological Ethology, Social Behavior, Animal Consciousness and Intellegence, Miscellaneous, Laboratory-related resources and examples. Animal communication - A brief discussion of animal communication as a means of information transfer. Applied Ethology Homepage (University of Saskatchewan) - Applied Ethology is a web page dedicated to the study of animal behaviour.

96. Ethology - Powered By XMB 1.8
    Ending Point. What You Say Questions, comments, chatter etc. 0, 0, Never, New Thread.Who's Online There are currently 58 Guests and 1 Member browsing ethology.  
    http://www.grass-stains.com/project/index.php

97. Cognitive Ethology
    Cognitive ethology. Cognitive ethology Hunting for Bargains or a Wild GooseChase. Daniel C. Dennett Center for Cognitive Studies Tufts University.  
    http://pp.kpnet.fi/seirioa/cdenn/cogetho.htm
    
    Extractions: in A. Montefiore and D. Noble, eds, Goals, No-Goals and own Goals: A Debate on Goal-Directed And Intentional Behaviour , London: Unwin Hyman 1989. Cognitive Ethology: Hunting for Bargains or a Wild Goose Chase I. Strategies of simplification The field of Artificial Intelligence has produced so many new conceptsor at least vivid and more structured versions of old conceptsthat it would be surprising if none of them turned out to be of value to students of animal behavior. Which will be most valuable? I will resist the temptation to engage in either prophecy or salesmanship; instead of attempting to answer the question: "How might Artificial Intelligence inform the study of animal behavior?" I will concentrate on the obverse: "How might the study of animal behavior inform research in Artificial Intelligence?" I take it we all agree that in the end we want to be able to describe and explain the design and operation of animal nervous systems at many different levels, from the neurochemical to the psychological and even the phenomenological (where appropriate!), and we want to understand how and why these designs have evolved, and how and why they are modulated in the individual organisms. AI research, like all other varieties of research on this huge topic, must make drastic oversimplifications in order to make even apparent progress. There are many strategies of simplification, of which these five, while ubiquitous in all areas of mind/brain research, are particularly popular in AI:

98. Cognitive Ethology
    Cognitive ethology. A Bibliography of Animal Cognition. Allen, C., M. Bekoff (inpress) Species of Mind, The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology.  
    http://cogweb.ucla.edu/EP/BiblioCognitiveEthology.html
    
    Extractions: *Added by Francis Steen; revised 20 March 2000. Cephlopoda ) signal their intentions to conspecifics during agonistic encounters? Anim. Behav Akins, K. A. 1993. A bat without qualities. In Consciousness , ed. M. Davies and G. Humphreys. Blackwell. Allen, C. 1992. Mental Content and Evolutionary Explanation. Biology and Philosophy Allen, C. 1992a. Mental content. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Allen, C. 1992b. Mental content and evolutionary explanation. Biology and Philosophy Nous Allen, C. 1995b. Intentionality: Natural and artificial. In Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science , ed. H. Roitblat and J.-A.Meyer. MIT Press. Allen, C. 1996. Comparative psychology not folk phylogeny. Behavioral and Brain Sciences Allen, C. 1997. Animal cognition and animal minds. In Philosophy and the Sciences of the Mind , ed. P. Machamer and M. Carrier. Pittsburgh University Press. Species of Mind, The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology

99. TheorEthol: /ethology/index.html
    This site is in the works please be patient Theoretical ethology Group.Division of ethology, Zoology Institution, Stockholm University.  
    http://www.intercult.su.se/ethology/
    
    Extractions: Other resources We are interested in general behaviour phenomena and how they can be understood with models of the nervous system (artificial neural networks). We have primarily dealt with generalisation and discrimination, and are now extending our research to the fields of learning and motivation. Stimulus control

100. ETHOLOGY@SEGATE.SUNET.SE
     LSoft, ethology@SEGATE.SUNET.SE. ethology (Discussions on animal behaviour). Listname ethology. Host name SEGATE.SUNET.SE (Sunet/KTH NOC). SUBSCRIBE ethology.  
     http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=ETHOLOGY&H=SEGATE.SUNET.SE

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