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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Sociality in Spiders
By Cameron Jones When you think of spiders, the idea of them living or working together is probably the last thing that crosses your mind. After all, aside from when an egg sac has just hatched, we rarely see spiders … Continue reading
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Tagged animal behavior, animals, cooperation, ecology, group living, kin, predation, prey, social, social spider, sociality, spider, spider colony, spider web, subsocial
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Examining Ecotourism – Does it stress out the monkeys?
By Dominique Bertrand Ecotourism is a growing industry. In 2001, United States citizens alone spent 32 billion dollars traveling overseas to view wildlife in their native habitats. This amount is expected to triple by 20201. Local populations often benefit financially … Continue reading
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Tagged animal behavior, Behavior, black crested macaque, conservation, crop raiding, ecotourism, endangered, fight or flight, immune system, Indonesia, macaque, mortality, primate, stress, Sulawesi, threat, tourism, wildlife
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A Murder of Crows: West Nile in the Winter
By Mitch Hinton It’s fall and winter is rapidly approaching. For many in Davis this brings to mind mildly cooler temperatures and wetter conditions (we hope). To me however, as a bird enthusiast, fall signals the influx of migratory American … Continue reading
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Tagged american crow, bird, communal roosts, crow, Davis, Disease transmission, group formation, infection, migration, mortality, mosquito, murder of crows, roost, social living, west nile virus, winter
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Deep Connections Might Make Us Nicer
by Curtis Atkisson That title, right?! Sounds like the most brain-dead obvious thing in the whole world. But, for those of us interested in they study of cooperation, it’s not that obvious, and the fact that deep connections might make … Continue reading
