Behavioral Ecology Blog

I’ve been all over the central Californian coast, looking for a nice place to trap mice. I’ve seen some pretty nice places, and see some cool things.. Here are some photos from:
 
Coyote at the Marino Reserve
 

Peromyscus californicus at the Marino Reserve. Check out all those ticks

This is the researcher housing at the Marino Reserve.. Pretty [...]

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Welcome to the 88th edition of the Tangled Bank, the best and longest running science blog-carnival out there. For the newbies, we blog about science, casting a wide net over the physical, social, and life sciences. Anybody is welcome to submit, so long as it is about science. This weeks posts come from as [...]

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There is a pretty cool paper in a recent issue of PRSOL by Hutchings, et.al.
Genetically resistant sheep avoid parasites to a greater extent than do susceptible sheep

ABSTRACT:Livestock breeding programmes have created resistant (R) and susceptible (S) sheep that differ in their ability to control parasites through their immune function but potentially also their grazing behaviour [...]

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Did you know that rats have an innate aversion to cat urine?? Well, I certainly did not. Seems reasonable though, that this represents an adaptation- i.e. where there is cat urine- there are cats- rats are in danger of being eaten by cats…. Something that might block this aversion in rats might [...]

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I’m quite sure many of my readers are familiar with Mike Ryan’s work on the Tungara frogs and their communication. Whines, chucks, and all that cool stuff. Yes? Amongst other things, he (and his collaborators) have shown that females prefer complex mating calls. If you are a male Tungara frog, you [...]

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