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Tag Archives: animal behavior
BEACON Researchers at Work: Peering into the Cooperative Brain
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Chelsea Weitekamp. An unlucky vampire bat returning to roost at night with an empty belly can solicit help from a roost-mate to avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged animal behavior, BEACON Researchers at Work, brain, cognition, Cooperation, fish
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Listening to the hyenas
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Kenna Lehmann. Have you ever seen a group of hyenas take down a zebra? Or fight off a pride of lions? Ok, probably not, so you’ll have … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Same behavior, same genes?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin research associate Rebecca Young. From an early age I spent my time outside – chasing lizards, riding horses, and begging to go to a zoo. … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Going with the Flow
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas postdoc Alex Jordan (www.alexjordan.org). The Rift Lakes in Africa, one of which has been famously dubbed “Darwin’s Dreampond,” are perhaps the best places on earth to visualize … Continue reading
Evolution 101: Group Selection
This week’s Evolution 101 post is by MSU graduate student Thomas LaBar. Many organisms live and interact within groups. Beehives, wolf packs, and bird flocks are just a few of the groups that exist in the natural world. Humans also … Continue reading
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Tagged altruism, animal behavior, Evolution 101, group selection, kin selection
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