Behavioral Ecology Blog

Is disgusting… Sign the petition to have it stopped.
Alaska is the only state in the nation where trophy hunters can gun down wolves from airplanes or chase wolves to exhaustion and then shoot them from the ground.
Alaskans have voted twice to end the state’s brutal aerial hunting program, but state officials continue to let [...]

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I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this very nice study by a fellow IB grad student and associate of the MVZ published this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. It represents the bulk of the dissertation research of Chris Clark, who has studied sound production in The Anna’s Hummingbird.
As [...]

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This is a test post of the Research Blogging Aggregation System… (it is a repost from a few days ago) Let’s see if it works.
For the practicing scientist readers. you know that feeling of excitement you get when you read a paper sometimes… That “Holy Shit, this is one of the nicest papers I’ve read [...]

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The Govenor of California has decided in his infinite wisdom to close 46 state parks and beaches… The ones that had the fewest visitors and generated the least amount if $$ will be closed..OK, does the governor really think that the value of a park is somehow tied to the amount of money it generates? What about [...]

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A questions:  Are there other wordpress users out there using the system successfully?  If yes- what are you doing (or not doing)OK, here is the test:

Type in visual editor
Copy and paste code in code editor
publish from code editor
do not return to visual editor
wait and see

DUBOIS, F. (2007). Mate choice copying in monogamous species: should females [...]

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So I have bee having problems with using the researchblogging.org aggregator.  Apparently wordpress manipulated to tag they are looking for- such that it is not detected, and thus not aggregated.   This test is:

Write in the visual editor
Switch to code editor
Copy and paste code from researchblogging.org
Return to visual editor
publish from visual editor
wait to see what happens

DUBOIS, F. (2007). Mate choice [...]

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For the practicing scientist readers. you know that feeling of excitement you get when you read a paper sometimes… That “Holy Shit, this is one of the nicest papers I’ve read in a long time” feeling.. Well hold on, cause if your interested in behavioral ecology, sexual selection, mate choice, birds, biology, ect, this paper [...]

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Probably not real.. but still funny.

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Very interesting… I highly suggest thinking about these correlations.. Here is the deal…

Generate a list of popular books at particular universities.

Easy via Amazon/Facebook

For the represented universities, get their average SAT scores for admitted students
Make a graph

See below for a few observations… [SOURCE]

1st- the expected. Most books are not correlated with either high or low [...]

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Roy Caldwell’s Animal Behavior class at UC Berkeley will be podcasted.. You can listen live (M-W-F 10A-11A PST) or after the fact… Click to the podcast icon to subscribe.

Here is the homepage.

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