Behavioral Ecology Blog

So instead of camping in the mountains of San Diego- we decided to go to the Zoo. Nighttime lows were into the low 30’s- which is just too cold for us- and for the mice in traps, too.
The Giant Panda exhibit was awesome.. There were 2 adults, and cubs (??) coming soon.
This animal was my [...]

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Partly motivated by my desire to get out of the city, part interested in seeing what it all looks like after the devastating Southern California wild fires, and partly wanting to see how Peromyscus populations are doing after this years record drought- we decided to spend a few days in the desert! Our plan [...]

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The quote:
A study of former high-school American Football players has found that morethan a third said they had had sexual relations with other men.
In his study of homosexuality among sportsmen in the US, sociologist DrEric Anderson found that 19 in a sample of 47 had taken part in acts intended tosexually arouse other men, ranging [...]

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’tis the season you know.. so if anybody is so inclined to donate either the $$$, or the actual goods, please contact me asap. Just imagine the nice mousey photos I could post…
Nikon D300

AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR
AF VR Zoom Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8D G-AFS ED-IF
AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4D ED-IF
I currently have [...]

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So Bora blogged a few days ago about open access science, commenting that th day may come when grant proposals may become available to formal reviewers and other interested parties much like accepted manuscripts are today..
This struck me 1st off as wrong- the ideas in grant proposals translate into $$, and novel ideas are [...]

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I’d been wondering about these crazy ants I was dealing with in Southern California this past summer. Finally, with the help of a Ant expert- I (she) identified them as Liometopum occidentale, the Velvety Tree Ant.
These guys were really interesting. They were really aggressive, in that they would be crawling up your legs by the [...]

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I just finished reading this paper from a recent issue of Science.. The Title: Disentangling Genetic Variation for Resistance and Tolerance to Infectious Diseases in Animals, which can be found (by subscribers) here. It’s a very nice paper, and brings up an interesting issue, one that I have not previously considered. Here it is… [...]

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So there has been a lot of publicity as of recent over a study conducted by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
Basically, they compile a bunch of data on criminal activities, weighting it toward violent crime, then publish a list of the “top-10″ most dangerous cities. See the story here
Interestingly, and a [...]

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