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Anim . Behav., 1970, 18, 600-604 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY Proceedings of a Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts from 26 December to 31 December 19...

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Anim . Behav., 1970, 18, 600-604

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY Proceedings of a Conference held in Boston, Massachusetts from 26 December to 31 December 1969, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Contributed Papers Saturday, 27 December Chairman : Douglas K . Candland, Bucknell University, Louisberg, Pennsylvania AIR-LICKING IN DESALIVATE RATS . By Dana Chillig & Joseph Mendelson, Rutgers, The State University. PHYSIOLOGIC, PATHOLOGIC AND BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION IN RATS . By Michael A . Sloan, Marvin Woolf & Jules H. Masserman, North-western University Medical School, Chicago. THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHEDULE ON INDIVIDUAL AND JOINT ESCAPE, RESPONSE RATE, AND FIGHTING BEHAVIOR . By Anton P . Colasacco & Roger E. Ulrich, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo . TROPISMS, ELECTROMOTIVE FORCES, AND CAPACITANCE . By Steve Anderson Platt & Jerry Hirsch, University of Illinois, Urbana. THRESHOLD ELEVATION DUE TO PRANDIAL DRINKING IN MICE . By Richard C. Lewis & Roslyn P . Warren, Alverno College, Milwaukee. TESTS OF CONTROL THEORY OF SUCROSE PREFERENCE IN P .M. BAIRDL By Ralph L. Levine, Michigan State University . Introduced by J. A . King. NON-REGULATORY ATTENUATION OF NaCl APPETITE IN THE ADRENALECTOMIZED RAT CONSEQUENT TO EXTENSIVE LiCl POISONING . By Joseph W . Cullen, VA Hospital, Perry Point, Maryland. Introduced by W . P . Pare . OPERANT RESPONSES OF A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW TO FIXED RATIO REINFORCEMENT FOR FOOD AND WATER BEFORE AND AFTER LESION OF THE VENTROMEDIAL AREA OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS . By Carl W . Helms & Wayne J. Kuenzel, University of Georgia.

Chairman : Lincoln P . Brower, Amherst College DEFENSES OF THE FLORIDA APPLE SNAIL . By Noel F . R. Snyder, University of South Florida, Tampa . DIFFERENCES IN WEB-PATTERNS BETWEEN TUBE- AND CAGE-RAISED SPIDERS (ARANEUS DIADEMATUS CL .) . By Peter N . Witt & Mobel B . Scarboro, North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Raleigh ; Charles F . Reed, Temple University, Philadelphia . LEARNING IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER? By Frank R . Yeatman & Jerry Hirsch, University of Illinois, Urbana. EXPERIMENTS ON THE ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF THE SENSE OF TASTE . By Lincoln P . Brower & John McDowell, Amherst College . DEMONSTRATION OF THE MIMETIC ADVANTAGE OF EDIBLE BUTTERFLIES PRESENTED TO CAGED AVIAN PREDATORS . By Austin P . Platt, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Raymond P. Coppinger & Lincoln P . Brower, Amherst College . THE EFFECT OF EXPERIENCE AND NOVELTY ON AVIAN FEEDING BEHAVIOR . By Raymond P. Coppinger, Amherst College . IS PREDATORY `DRIVE' UNITARY AND INDEPENDENT OF HUNGER? By Helmut C . Mueller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . 600



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INFLUENCE OF FOOD SCENT ON BEHAVIOR OF FORAGING HONEY BEES . By Patrick H. Wells & Adrian M . Wenner, Occidental College, Los Angeles ; and University of California, Santa Barbara. OBSERVATIONS ON THE ONTOGENY OF ECHOLOCATION IN BATS : MYOTIS AND EPTESICUS. By Edwin Gould, John Hopkins University, Baltimore .

Sunday 28 December Chairman : James A . Mulligan, St Louis University VOCALIZATIONS IN NORTH AMERICAN GOLDFINCHES . By Ellen L . Coutlee, University of California, Los Angeles. CAWS AND EFFECT IN THE COMMUNICATION OF COMMON CROWS . By Nicholas S. Thompson, Swarthmore College . PROLONGED INCUBATION BEHAVIOR OF RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS INCUBATING SEVERAL EGG SIZES. By Larry C. Holcomb, Creighton University, Omaha . ROLE OF THE EPAULET IN RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD TERRITORIAL MAINTENANCE . By Douglas G . Smith, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Introduced by Charles Walcott . SOME OBSERVATIONS ON BEHAVIORAL ENERGETICS OF TWO RELATED SUB-SPECIES OF BIRDS. By Nicholas E . Collias & Elsie C . Collias, University of California, Los Angeles, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History . LONG-TERM CYCLIC PREFERENCE FOR PHOTOPERIODS OF DIFFERING DURATIONS BY THE WHITECROWNED SPARROW, ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHYRS GAMBELII . By Frank H. Heppner, University of Rhode Island. STELLAR ORIENTATION OF MIGRATORY RESTLESSNESS IN THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS. By Sidney A . Gauthreaux, Jr, University of Georgia . Introduced by C . W . Helms . A PROPOSED NEURAL MODEL EXPLAINING THE INITIATION OF SPRING HYPERPHAGIA IN A MIGRATORY BIRD, ZONOTRICHIA ALBICOLLIS . By Wayne J . Kuenzel, University of Georgia .

Monday, 29 December Chairman : Ronald J. Barfield, Rutgers, The State University COPULATORY BEHAVIOR OF PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS. By Donald A. Dewsbury, University of Florida . ONTOGENY OF COITUS-RELATED RESPONSES IN YOUNG GUINEA-PIGS . By Lawrence V . Harper, University of California, Davis . INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS OF RESPONSE . By Donald W . Pfaff, Rockefeller University . ESTROUS VARIATIONS IN THE TOTAL BEHAVIOR OUTPUT OF THE FEMALE RAT . By Wilmar A. Jennings, Howard University. THE INFLUENCE OF ANDROGEN ON THE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF MALE RATS . By Ronald J . Barfield, Rutgers, The State University . MATERNAL CARE AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN GOATS . By Richard B . Hemmes, Duke University, Introduced by P. H. Klopfer. THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN COMMUNAL NURSING IN MICE . By Anne Sayler, University of Illinois, Urban . Introduced by Michael Salmon . BEHAVIOR OF MATERNAL RATS IN THE PERINATAL PERIOD . By Benjamin D . Sachs, University of Connecticut.



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THE DISSOCIATION OF NURSING BEHAVIOR AND THE CONDITION OF THE MAMMARY GLAND IN THE RABBIT . By Alan L. R. Findlay & Lorraine L . Roth, University of Cambridge, England, and Temple University, Phildelphia. MATERNAL BEHAVIOR DEFICITS FOLLOWING FOREBRAIN LESIONS IN THE RAT. By Burton W. Slotnick, Columbia University . HORMONE REGULATION OF VENTRAL MARKING AND CHINNING OF TERRITORIES IN THE MONGOLIAN GERBIL. By D. D. Thiessen & P. Yahr, University of Texas, Austin .

Chairman : Gilbert W . Meier, George Peabody College, Nashville Tennessee EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL UPON SEXUAL AND AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR IN CHIMPANZEES . By F . L. FitzGerald & V. Fox, Tarpon Springs, Florida, and Georgian Clinic, Atlanta . OPERANT CYCLES AND IMITATIONAL LEARNING IN A SOCIAL SETTING . By Gilbert W . Meier . SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF CAPTIVE GELADAS (THEREOPITHECUS GELADA). By Irwin S . Bernstein, Emory University, Atlanta. FREE-RANGING RHESUS MONKEYS : BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF REMOVAL AND REINTRODUCTION OF GROUP MEMBERS . By Stephen H. Vessey, Bowling Green State University. CEBUS CAPUCINUS : PLAY AND ALLOGROOMING IN A MONKEY GROUP . By John R . Oppenheimer, John Hopkins University, Baltimore. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF LEADERSHIP IN A GROUP OF YOUNG CHIMPANZEES . By Emil W . Menzel, Jr, Delta Regional Primate Center, Tulane University. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS OF SPACE UTILIZATION IN TWO SPECIES OF PEROMYSCUS. By James L . Hill, Michigan State University . Introduced by John A . King . AGGRESSION-REDUCTION IN TERRITORIAL STELLAR SEA LIONS . By Roger L . Gentry, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California . POSTURAL ASPECTS OF THREAT AND SUBMISSION SIGNALLING IN MATURE, MALE AMERICAN BISON. By Dale F. Lott, University of California, Davis. SCENT-MARKING IN MAXWELL'S DUIKER, CEPHALOPHUS MAXWELL!. By Katherine Rails, Rockefeller University.

Tuesday, 30 December Chairman : Ronald W . Oppenheim, North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Raleigh GENETIC AND ONTOGENETIC FACTORS IN SQUEALING OF THE HOUSE MOUSE . By Glayde D . Whitmey, University of Colorado . AGGRESSION AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN COCKROACHES . By David Simon, University of Texas, Austin . Introduced by Robert H . Barth, Jr . BEHAVIORAL DIFFERENTIATION OF WILDNESS IN TWO STRAINS OF RED JUNGLE FOWL . By I . Lehr Brisbin, Jr, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina. AN AUTOMATED LABORATORY FOR IMPRINTING RESEARCH . By L. James Shapiro, Bowling Green State University. IMPRINTING TRAINING EFFECTS ON HYPERSTRIATAL EEG AND ON HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN YOUNG CHICKS AND TURKEYS . By A. H . Schulman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg. OLFACTORY IMPRINTING AND AGE VARIABLES IN THE GUINEA-PIG . By Sue Carter & John N . Mart, Michigan State University, and University of Arkansas.

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EFFECTS OF AGE AND EXPERIENCE ON IMPRINTING IN TURKEYS AND CHICKENS . By Steven B . C Christopher, Eastern Washington State College, Cheney, Introduced by E . B. Hale . FACTORS AFFECTING THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PAIR BOND IN THE RING DOVE (STREPTOPELIA RISORIA) . By Robert L . Morris & C . J . Erickson, Duke University . EFFECTS OF PREHATCHING STIMULATION ON GROWTH AND BEHAVIOR IN A DOMESTIC CHICK . By Peter S . Gold, American Museum of Natural History, New York . Introduced by Ethel Tobach . DOES TACTILE OR PROPRIOCEPTIVE STIMULATION PLAY A ROLE IN THE EMBRYONIC MOTILITY OF THE CHICK? By Ronald W. Oppenheim, John Hopkins University, Baltimore .

Chairman : Rudolph J. Miller, Oklahoma State University T. SPARRMANI AND THE EVOLUTION OF ORAL INCUBATION IN TILAPIA (CICHLIDAE) . By Sol Kramer, University of Florida. OLFACTION IN PARENT STREAM SELECTION BY THE ALEWIFE, ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS . By Bruce E . Thunberg, University of Rhode Island. Introduced by Howard E. Winn . INTER-CLONAL AGGRESSION OF THE SEA ANEMONE, ANTHOPLEURA ELEGANTISSIMA . By Lisbeth Childress, University of California, Santa Barbara. Introduced by Demorest Davenport . DAILY MIGRATIONS OF TROPICAL SEA URCHINS . By Daniel P . Smith, University of Wisconsin . Introduced by L . M . Passano . SEASONAL MIGRATIONS OF THE HERMIT CRAB, PAGURUS LONGICARPUS . By Steven Rebach, University of Rhode Island. SHELTER SELECTION AND BURROWING BEHAVIOR IN THE LOBSTER, HOMARUS AMERICANUS. By J . Stanley Cobb, University of Rhode Island . THE EFFECTS OF VISION ON SOME ASPECTS OF LOCOMOTOR BEHAVIOR IN NAIVE GOLDFISH . By A . N . Timms & H. Kleerekoper, Texas A&M University. THE EFFECTS OF TIME AND DISTANCE BETWEEN TURNS ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THEIR ANGLES IN FREE-SWIMMING, NAIVE GOLDFISH . By G. F . Westlake & H. Kleerekopfer, Texas A&M University . MODIFICATION OF THE DISCHARGE OF A WEAKLY ELECTRIC MORMYRID FISH BY DRUGS . By Lawrence A . Minkoff, Louis P. Granath, Howard G. Sachs & Warren L . Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, and Clark University. THE ROLE OF ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES IN THE AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR OF A WEAKLY ELECTRICAL FISH. By Patricia B . Cleworth, University of California, Los Angeles . FEEDING, AGGRESSIVE AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR EVOKED BY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF THE BRAIN IN FREE-SWIMMING BLUEGILLS (LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS). By Leo S . Demski, University of Rochester. Introduced by Jerram L . Brown . THE ROLE OF TASTE IN THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CATFISH (ICTALURUS NATALIS) . By Jelle Atema, University of Michigan.

Educational Films Saturday, 27 December Arranged by Richard Boolotian DOLFIN LEARNING STUDIES . By Karen Pryor, Oceanic Institute, Makapun, Hawaii . MATING BEHAVIOR OF HONEY BEES . By Normal E . Gary, University of California, Davis .



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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION IN MAMMALS . By Katherine Ralls, Rockefeller University . SENSORY MECHANISMS IN COMMUNICATION . By Mark Konishi, Biology Department, Princeton, University. AUDITORY COMMUNICATION : RESPONSE TO PLAYBACK OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SIGNALS . By Steven Emlen, Cornell University. SOCIAL COMMUNICATION IN WILD CHIMPANZEES . By Peter Marler .

Open Discussion on Animal Communication Sunday, December 28 Chairman : Steven Emlen