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On the Web
- Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior - Annotated links to resources on animal behavior and instincts.
- Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Rikkyo University - Current research includes the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, avian behavioral ecology, and what behaviors help an animal to adapt to its environment.
- Animal Behavior Society - Includes Applied Animal Behavior Certification information and selected animal behavior web resources.
- Pet Behavior Problems - Animal behavior problems are common and one of the biggest reasons that people give up their animals or treat them harshly. By treating behavior problems it is possible to enhance the relationship between and person and their companion animal and prevent further damage.
- Animal Behavior/Sensory Biology - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks - Article from Wikibooks explaining that, by learning how the senses gather information, a better understanding of behavior is gained.
- Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior - Information from Indiana University's program on animal behavior.
- Animal Behavior and Sociobiology - Lecture on sociobiological behavior based on experimental animal observation from McMaster University, Canada.
- Animal School Behavior Services - Animal behavior services for dogs and cats including behavior modification and training. Description of their training methods, staff biographies, and information on their service dog training program.
- Animal Behavior - A free online textbook from Wikibooks.
- Bucknell University Animal Behavior Program - The animal behavior program requires coursework in basic science while encouraging the student to study the humanities, relevant social science, languages, and cultures.
Wikipedia Articles
- Animal Behavior Society - The Animal Behavior Society is an international non-profit scientific society that encourages and promotes the professional study of animal behavior. It has open membership, and also provides a certification and directory for animal behaviorists.
- Behavioral ecology - Behavioral ecology is the study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behavior, and the roles of behavior in enabling an animal to adapt to its environment (both intrinsic and extrinsic). Behavioral ecology emerged from ethology after Niko Tinbergen (a seminal figure in the study of animal behavior), outlined the four causes of behavior.
- Human animal roleplay - Human animal roleplay (also called petplay, ponyplay, ponyism or pup-play) is a form of erotic sexual role-play where one or more of the participants takes on the role of a real or imaginary animal in character, including appropriate mannerisms and behavior, and sometimes a partner will act as another animal, or in a sexual context may take the role of rider, trainer or caretaker (or sometimes breeding partner). The principal theme of human-animal roleplay is usually the voluntary or involuntary ...
- San Diego Zoo Animal Explorer - San Diego Zoo Animal Explorer is a documentary-style DVD that includes a virtual interactive tour through the world famous San Diego Zoo. The program allows the viewer to choose which animal they would like to visit and navigate directly to that animal's enclosure and learn about the creature's behavior, feeding, offspring and vocalizations.
- Punishment (psychology) - In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. As with reinforcement, it is the behavior, not the animal, that is punished.