Comparative and Physiological Psychology (course outline)

Updated: 2005-11-17

General Readings

• Tree of Life (phylogenetic relationships)
• Embryology and microorganisms (Nova Odyssey)
• Allen & Bekoff's Species of Mind (book on classical ethology and cognitive ethology)
• Famous Ethological Experiments (Plymouth University)
• Gray's Reef Marine Sanctuary

Useful Articles and Diagrams

• The eye
• The ear
• Vestibular system
  • Aviation/Aerospace Medicine Articles
    • http://members.ozemail.com.au/~dxw/avmed.html

Lecture Outlines

• Homing and Migration (Ridley, Chapter 5)
• Eating and Not Being Eaten (Ridley, Chapter 6)
  • Livestock Guarding Dogs
    • http://www.canismajor.com/dog/livestck.html
  • Dogs with Jobs
    • http://dogswithjobs.com/about_dogs/dog_jobs/herding_dogs.html
  • Dogs of War
    • http://community-2.webtv.net/Hahn-50thAP-K9/K9History/
  • Drug Detecting Dogs
    • http://www.detection-dogs.com/drugs.html
  • Huskies/Jackals as Sniffer Dogs
    • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1977094.stm
  • Beagles in Airports
    • http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/pubs/detdog2.html
  • Auburn Detection Canine Program
    • http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/ibds/doglab.htm
  • Dog Carts
    • http://hometown.aol.com/vixensmistress/myhomepage/profile.html
  • Sled Dogs
    • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/sleddogs/
  • Iditarod
    • http://www.iditarod.com/index.shtml
• Signals (Ridley, Chapter 7)
  • Predation
    • Predation--TAMU page for ranchers to evaluate possible predation of livestock
      • http://texnat.tamu.edu/ranchref/predator/pred.htm
    • Red Fox Predation on Breeding Ducks--Wildlife monograph on effects of fox predation on wild duck populations in North America
      • http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/othrdata/redfox/redfox.htm
    • On the Prowl--effects of cat predation in the rural Wisconsin environment
      • http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1996/dec96/cats.htm
  • Foraging
    • See the World Through the Eyes of a Honey Bee-page on how honey bee's vision appears to them (and to us).
      • http://cvs.anu.edu.au./andy/beye/beyehome.html
    • It's Naturally Delicious!!--Text account of mockingbird diet and discussion of Galapagos mockingbird, picture of same
      • http://www.bergen.org/Smithsonian/Mockingbirds/forage.html
    • Paper Dinosaurs--catalog of exhibition of dinosaur drawings, includes one of foraging
      • http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/maincont.htm
    • Killer Whale Foraging Behavior--map of resident and transient killer whale pods, their foraging behavior, and the items foraged
      • http://marine.alaskapacific.edu/kw/kwfeed.html
  • Filter Feeding
    • Baleen Whales: Diet and Eating Habits--information from Busch Gardens on how baleen whales eat, includes discussion of filter feeding
      • http://www.seaworld.org/whalesk3/baleen_whales.htm
  • Mimicry
    • Immunity, Mimicry, and Protection--marine examples of immunity, mimicry, and protection from Smithsonian's Ocean Planet exhibition
      • http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ps_immunity.html
    • Aggressive Mimicry--short text on bolas spider with reference to Science article
      • http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf052/index.htm