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Brood Parasitism This essay describes the behavior of birds that lay their eggs in the nest of another species, with links to other essays covering similar topics. http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Cophylogeny between Pocket Gophers and Chewing Lice Article discussing the symbiotic association between gophers and chewing lice, creatures whose life histories are conducive to parallel speciation. http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rdmp1c/book/draft/hafner.pdf Gla.ac.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Dwarf Mongoose: Social Cooperation Article discussing the benefit for dwarf mongooses of living in a cohesive group. Also describes their symbiotic cooperation with hornbills in Kenya. http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/vecase/behavior/Spring2003/Rizi/SC.htm Davidson.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne Affiliated with the University of Basel, Switzerland. Focuses on the behavioral ecology of passerines. http://www.camargue.unibas.ch Unibas.ch  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Processing Towards Life L Charles Birch discusses self-organisation as exampled by termites, ants and slime moulds, where patterns of behavior are determined, not by some centralised authority, but by local interactions about decentralised components http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2861 Religion-online.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Braun Lab of Hydroacoustic Research and Discovery Current research at Hunter College, New York, concentrates on the multiple sensory systems that fish use to detect moving and sound-producing objects, including the gymnotiform fishes that use electricity to communicate. http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~cbraun/braunwebsite/Research.htm Cuny.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Play Signals as Punctuation: The Structure of Social Play in Canids Paper by Marc Bekoff discussing the use by animals of specific signals primarily to initiate or maintain social play. http://cogprints.org/158/00/199709003.html Cogprints.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   A Century of Generalization This article aims to organise existing data to test the theory that, when a behavior has been established in response to a certain stimulus, novel stimuli resembling the first will usually elicit the same response. http://cogprints.org/5279/01/ghirlanda_enquist2003.pdf Cogprints.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Deep-sea Octocorals as Homes for Other Species Researchers at the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, examine the commensal relationships of octocorals with brittle stars and marine scale worms. http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04mountains/background/commensals/commensals.html Noaa.gov  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Figs and Fig Wasps An example of mutualism, fig wasps only live for a few days but manage to perform their amazing task of finding and pollinating the flowers that are hidden deep inside the fig. http://www.figweb.org/ Figweb.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check