In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play...

The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field...

Covers how research concerns different in zoos and aquariums, ethical considerations for conservation research, trends...

Iguanas are large, primeval-appearing animals that have always attracted considerable attention and scientific study. The...

Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa are...

Striped crayfish snakes (Regina alleni) undergo a dietary shift from dragonfly larvae to crayfish during...

Rhabdophis tigrinus is an Asian natricine snake that possesses unusual defensive glands on the dorsal...

Of the various chemical defensive adaptations of vertebrates, nuchal glands are among the most unusual....

Chemical defenses are widespread among animals, and the compounds involved may be either synthesized from...

Long-lived species are expected to have long-term memory capabilities. In this study we tested nine...

Distinguishing between hybrid zones formed by secondary contact versus parapatric divergence-with-gene-flow is an important challenge...

Since the 1970s, texts on research methods in animal behavior advocate that researchers minimize potential...

Some comments are appended to Patrick Bateson’s reflections on the future of behavioral biology that...

In the socially polymorphic spider Anelosimus studiosus, males mature early in the reproductive season and...

In recent years genotyping analysis using mini- and microsatellite markers has provided robust DNA-based support...

Until recently, facultative automictic parthenogenesis within the squamate reptiles exhibiting ZZ:ZW genetic sex determination has...

We investigated whether turtles (Pseudemys nelsoni) could learn about a visual object cue to obtain...

The ability to detect and respond to potential predators is key for the survival of...

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the study of play behavior, marked...

Testing the cognitive abilities of cartilaginous fishes is important in understanding the evolutionary origins of...

Testing the cognitive abilities of cartilaginous fishes is important in understanding the evolutionary origins of...

We used microsatellite DNA markers to identify the extent to which multiple paternity within litters...

Knowledge of the various cues that elicit natural behavior is important to our understanding of...

Scholars interested in play in humans should take note of the growing literature on play...

Charles Darwin made numerous seminal contributions to the study of animal behavior over his long...

The treatment of nonhuman animals has been marked by extremes of beneficence and cruelty. The...

It is widely accepted that providing stimulus enrichment is an important part of the development...

Nuchal glands are unique organs known in only twelve Old World natricine species (three genera)...

Nuchal glands are unique organs known in only twelve Old World natricine species (three genera)...

Contextual flexibility in prey restraint behaviour has been documented in advanced snakes (Colubroidea), but the...

Patterns of divergence and polymorphism across hybrid zones can provide important clues as to their...

It is widely accepted that providing stimulus enrichment is an important part of the development...

Penn et al. do not demonstrate Darwin made a mistake, because they largely ignore the...

The study of communication in all its forms has come a long way conceptually and...

Incomplete knowledge of pedigrees sometimes limits the methods of estimating quantitative genetic parameters (heritability, genetic...

The Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus possesses specialized defensive glands on its neck that contain steroidal...

Pleistocene events played an important role in the differentiation of North American vertebrate populations. Michigan,...

Morphological and behavioral differences between sexes are commonplace throughout the animal kingdom. Body size is...

We developed a shaping procedure for training Florida red-bellied cooters, Pseudemys nelsoni, to dislodge clear...

Both continuity and change typically mark the changing of editors at a long-established journal with...

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.020

This study investigated the effects of environmentally enriched and standard laboratory housing conditions on behavioral...

Variations at both the genetic and phenotypic levels play an important role in responses to...

The metaphor drug model of money slights the possibility that money may literally tap into...

Sexual selection and mating systems profoundly influence the behavior and psychology of animals. Using their...

DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01117.x

Studies of appetite in mammals emphasize that meal size is learned, but lactation and parental...

Tail loss, urotomy, in reptiles and amphibians has been the emphasis of many ecological and...

Tail loss, urotomy, in reptiles and amphibians has been the emphasis of many ecological and...

Precocial offspring are often required to recognize and acquire food without assistance. In addition, they...

heuristics provide insight into the inconsistencies that characterize thinking related to the use of nonhuman...

Clive Wynne misrepresented my published views in his Concepts essay "The perils of anthropomorphism" (Nature...

Obituary for experimental psychologist and mentor William Samuel Verplanck, Jr. (1916-2002)

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For snakes, prey size and sex are two possible determinants of head and body size....

The common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, is the most widely distributed reptile species in North...

Many contextual factors affect the anti-predator behaviour of animals. In ectotherms, in which most physiological...

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This report documents the application of high field magnetic resonance imaging to viewing the central...

In experiments on responses to chemical food stimuli by previously unfed hatchlings from widely separated...

Rhabdophis tigrinus, which typically forages on toads, has unusual nuchal glands on its dorsal neck...

The sources of individual differences in human and non-human animals remain controversial. We demonstrate that...

If there is to be a natural theory of consciousness that would satisfy both philosophers...

The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia promotes the understanding and improvement of animal...

The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia promotes the understanding and improvement of animal...

The most up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible reference resource for learning about animal behavior.

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In what is certain to be the key reference on iguanas for years to come,...

The book addresses many issues in the study of evolution where important advances have recently...