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Rethinking the Value of Pets
The New York Times: Think an elderly family member is better off with a pet? You may want to think again. Sure, there have been hundreds of articles claiming dogs and cats can lower blood
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A Zoo Where the Animals Come First
On the occasion of my 65th birthday, in the City of Atlanta, where I spent 17 years working at a zoo once denigrated as one of America’s worst zoos, I announced my retirement as president
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Retrospective Evaluations in Capuchin Monkeys
I’m Venkat Lakshminarayanan from Yale University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
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49th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
The 49th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society will be held June 10 – 14, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information visit: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org/absmeetings/
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Optogenetics: Stranger Than Fiction
It sounds like a science fiction movie: Scientists integrate the photoreceptive properties of light-sensitive algae into rat neurons. The result? A rat whose brain can be controlled by light. As crazy as it seems, this
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Do The Funky…Pigeon
You could read Emma Ware’s PhD thesis to find out how social dynamics influence the behavior of pigeons…or, you could watch her dance. Ware was the Social Science winner of the 2011 Dance Your PhD