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Songs
of Love and Betrayal
Elephant Rumbles
Echoes in the Night
Bee Lines
A New Way to Hear
Songs
of Love and Betrayal
Songbird
Shows How Evolution Works
January 18, 2001 Scientists may be witnessing one of
the fundamental forces of evolution: the divergence
of one species into two. The greenish warbler may provide
the evidence Darwin lacked. By BBC News Online science
editor Dr David Whitehouse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1123973.stm
Animal
Diversity Web from the University of
Michigan's Museum of Zoology- Dendroica pensylvanica
(Chestnut-Sided Warbler)
Everything about the bird from its Physical Characteristics
to its economic importance to humans. Includes reference
links and sound clips.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts
/dendroica/d._pensylvanica$media.html
Virtual
Birder's Photo/Sound Gallery (Warblers)
Photos by Arthur Morris and sound captured by Lang Elliot
of the Chestnut-sided warbler and its closest relatives.
http://www.virtualbirder.com/vbirder/onLoc/
onLocDirs/BOSSPR/gallery/Warblers3.html
Male
Birds' Ability To Learn Song Affects Female Mating Response
Duke University researchers find that how well a male
songbird learns his song affects the female's mating
response. 2002-09-11
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2002/09/020911072517.htm
Birdnet
A useful resource from the Ornithological Council, an
organization of ten North American professional ornithological
societies. Links to information for everyone from students
to professional biologists.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/
Elephant Rumbles
Biologist
Makes Monkeys Her Business
A Cincinnati Enquirer profile of Anne Savage from August
25, 1998. By Jim Knippenberg.
http://enquirer.com/editions/1998/08/25
/loc_monkey25.html
Stomp!
Elephants' Early Warning System
An article on O'Connell's research from the Stanford
Report, March 14, 2001 By Mark Shwartz.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/
news/march14/elephants-37.html
African
Elephants
A rich source of information from The Oakland Zoo's
Web site. Includes sound and movie files.
http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/azeleph.html
Elephant
listening project
An acoustic monitoring system for forest elephants,
the Elephant Listening Project (ELP) is a new way to
monitor African forest elephants for conservation purposes.
http://birds.cornell.edu/BRP/EleLP.html
Gateway
to Information on Elephants
The School of Veterinary Medicine at the University
of California, Davis provides links to professional
elephant research, as well as news and hobbyist sites.
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/elepha~1.htm
Echoes in the Night
Bats
(Chiroptera)
Great facts, pictures and links from the National Parks
Conservation Association. Includes information on echolocation
and how to build a bat house
http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_protection/
wildlife_facts/bats/default.asp
Batty
about Bats
This kids' page from the Connecticut Department of Environmental
Protection includes bat anatomy and a quiz, as well
as facts and links to other sources.
http://dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/wildlife/
kids/kpbats.htm
Bat
Ecology and Biocoustics Lab at the University of Bristol,
England
Have you ever wondered what the echolocation calls of
bats sound like? This site provides links to files containing
the echolocation calls of British bats, -slowed down
so that you can hear them with your own ears.
http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/calls/
Elisabeth
Kalko
The scientist's page at the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute. Includes her areas of interest and selected
bibliography.
http://www.stri.org/Scientific_Staff/kalkoe.html
Bee Lines
Science
Matters: Explore and Discover Communication in Bees
The discovery of a stingless bee that can symbolically
communicate distance and height provides an opportunity
to explore sophisticated symbolic communication.
http://www.ucsd.tv/sciencematters/
lesson2-bees.shtml
Look
Who's Dancing
Discoveries of both bumblebees and stingless bees doing
something like dancing provide hints about the origins
of bee communication. From SCIENCE NEWS ONLINE,The Weekly
Newsmagazine of Science Volume 155, Number 14
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/
4_3_99/bob1.htm
What
the Buzz is All About
Austrian zoologist named Karl von Frisch embarked upon
what became a lifelong passion for spying on bees. He
went on to win a Nobel Prize for his discovery and description
of the honeybee's food dance, perhaps the most celebrated
example of animal communication in the wild. By Alex
Hawes, Zoogoer Magazine from Friends of the National
Zoo.
http://www.fonz.org/zoogoer/zg1995/buzz.htm
The
Waggle Dance
Dubbed the Schwanzelanz in German and tail-wagging dance
in some scientific papers is possibly one the most studied
and famous of all the forms of animal communication.
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ma_marsz/waggle.html
James
Nieh's homepage
As Assistant Professor of Biology at UCSD, Nieh approaches
the question of how animal language has evolved by focusing
on the most sophisticated form of animal language -
symbolic communication.
http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/nieh.html
A New Way to Hear
The
Super Fly Lends an Ear to Bio-inspired Hearing Aids
and Robotic Listening Devices.
The report announcing Hoy and Miles' research breakthrough.
From Cornell News, April 2001.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/
March01/fly_ear.hrs.html
Ronald
R. Hoy's Laboratory
More about the Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of sensory
systems research at Cornell University's Department
of Neurobiology & Behavior.
http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/hoy/
webpage/hoyhome.html
Ron
Miles' Laboratory
Learn more about what goes on at the Vibration Research
Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
http://www.me.binghamton.edu/vib3.html
Eaten
Alive for Love The Cost of Attracting a Mate.
Why evolution favors the cricket song, even though it
attracts more than mates. August 29, 2002
http://staffweb.uleth.ca/news/display.asp?ID=4059
The
Better to Hear You With
How Ron Miles research on flies' ears may offer hope
of better hearing aids. By Susan E. Barker
http://inside.binghamton.edu/January-February/
18FEB99/fly.html
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