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Proceedings of the Section of Animal Behavior and Sociobiology (Ecological Society of America and The American Society of Zoologists)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTION OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY (ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS) The following papers were read in New York in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . The symposium on Teaciing Animal Behaviour was co-sponsored with the National Association of Biology Teachers and Section F of the AAAS . Abstracts of the papers are available in the Anatomical Record, 138(3), 1960.
Wednesday Morning, December 28th, 1960 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, I . EARLY EXPERIENCE HELEN BLAUVELT presiding EARLY PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN PRAYING MANTIDS. By SOL KRAMER, State University of New York . THE IMPRINTING OBJECT AS A REINFORCING STIMULUS . By B. A. CAMPBELL and J. R. PICKLEMAN, Princetown University. DEVELOPMENTAL AGE AS A BASELINE FOR DETERMINING THE CRITICAL PERIOD IN IMPRINTING . By GILBERT GOTTLIEB, Duke University. INFANTILE EXPERIENCE WITH SPECIFIC VISUAL STIMULI AS RELATED TO LATER DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH RESPONSES IN RATS . By ETHEL TOBACH, L . VROMAN, G. TURKEWITZ & T. C . SCHNEIRLA, American Museum of Natural History . EFFECTS OF EARLY SOCIAL EXPERIENCE ON AGGRESSIVE PLAY IN YOUNG GOATS . By HELEN BLAUVELT & A. ULRICH MOORE, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse and Cornell University . ANIMAL HYPNOSIS (TONIC IMMOBILITY) CONSIDERED AS A PARAMETER OF BEHAVIOR IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN A GROUP OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL (EXPERIMENTAL) LAMBS AND KIDS. By A . ULRIC MOORE & MARVIN AMSTEY, Cornell University . EFFECTS OF GRADED AND DELAYED EXPERIENCE ON BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUPPIES . By JOHN L. FULLER, Jackson Memorial Laboratory . RESPONSE TO NESTING MATERIALS BY WILD-BORN AND CAPTIVE-BORN CHIMPANZEES . By IRWIN S . BERNSTEIN, Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida .
Wednesday Afternoon, December 28th ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, II C . R. CARPENTER presiding PERSISTENCE OF A CONDITIONED RESPONSE IN THE CICHLID FISH, Tilapia macrocephala, AFTER FOREBRAIN AND CEREBELLAR ABLATIONS . By LESTER D . ARONSON & RONALD HERBERMAN, American Museum of Natural History . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF PREWEANING MANIPULATION IN TWO STRAINS OF RATS . By LEO VROMAN, E. TOBACH, G. TURKEWITZ & T. C. SCHNEIRLA, American Museum of Natural History . AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GOATS AND SHEEP . By HELEN BLAUVELT & A. ULRIC MOORE, State University of New York and Cornell University . FLIGHT AND SWIMMING REFLEXES IN GIANT WATER BUGS . By HUGH DINGLE, University of Michigan. ECOLOGICAL SIMILARITY AND CANNIBALISTIC INTERACTION IN THE MONARCH AND QUEEN BUTTERFLIES, Danaus plexippus and D . bereuke . By LINCOLN P . BROWER, Amherst College. 118
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A STUDY OF HOMING IN THE COTTON MOUSE, Peromycus gossypinus . By JAMES V . GRIFFO, Jr ., Fairleigh Dickinson University .
POPULATION ANALYSIS, GROUP COMPOSITION AND BEHAVIOR OF HOWLER MONKEYS
(Alouatta
palliata) OF BARRO COLORADO ISLAND IN 1959 . By C . R . CARPENTER, Pennsylvania State University .
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR : INNER-ORIENTATION OF POPULATION IN A FUNCTIONAL AREA . By ERNEST M . KUHINKA, Dickinson College .
. Thursday Morning, December 29th, 1960 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, III . SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR EVELYN SHAW presiding.
A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR IN THE QUEEN BUTTERFLY, Danaas berenice (Cramer) . By LINCOLN P. BROWER & FLORENCE P . CRANSTON, Amherst College and Harvard Medical School . SEX DISCRIMINATION IN SPECIES OF Colisa and Trichogaster. By ANTHONY R . PICCIOLO, University of Maryland.
COLOR CHANGES CORRELATED WITH PARENTAL BEHAVIOR IN CICHLID FISH . By SOL KRAMER, State University of New York .
SPAWNING AND PARENTAL BEHAVIOR IN FEMALE PAIRS OF THE JEWEL FISH, Hemichromls bimaculatus Gill. By BERNARD GREENBERG, Roosevelt University. EFFECT OF TESTOSTERONE ON OCCURRENCE OF SOME DUCK DISPLAYS . By RICHARD E. PHILLIPS & D . FRANK McKINNEY, Cornell University and Delta Waterfowl Research Station . A MOTIVATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF THE GREETING DISPLAY IN GEESE . By ROBERT B . KLOPMAN, Cornell University.
ROLE OF HEAD HEIGHT IN RELEASING SEXUAL VERSUS FIGHTING BEHAVIOR IN TURKEYS . By E . B. HALE, Pennsylvania State University . SOME ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORAL EVOLUTION . By ROBERT W . FICKEN, Cornell University . THE EVOLUTION OF AGONISTIC, PRE-COPULATORY AND NEST-BUILDING BEHAVIOR IN THE AFRICAN PARROT GENUS Agapornis. By WILLIAM C. DILGER, Cornell University .
Thursday Afternoon, December 29th ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, IV . SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AND COMMUNICATION J . L . FULLER presiding SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN INBRED STRAINS OF MICE . By THOMAS E . McGILL, Williams College . CHANGES IN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN SPAYED FEMALE GUINEA PIGS FOLLOWING HYPOTHALAMIC LESIONS . By LARRY L . MORGENSTERN, University of Kansas. ACOUSTICAL BEHAVIOR AND COURTSHIP OF CONENOSE BUGS (Himiptera, Reduviidae, Triatondnae) . By THOMAS E . MOORE, University of Michigan . AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE SINGING BEHAVIOR OF THE TRUE KATYDID (Pterophylla : Tettigoniicae). By KENNETH C . SHAW, University of Michigan . THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUND PRODUCTION DURING THE REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF Notropis analostanus . By JOHN F. STOUT, University of Maryland. SOUND PRODUCTION OF SQUIRREL FISHES . By HOWARD E. WINN & JOSEPH MARSHALL, University
of Maryland.
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SOUND SPECTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF A CONTINUOUS SINGER, THE MOCKING BIRD. By D. K' HUNTER & ROBERT SELANDER, University of Texas and American Museum of Natural History. THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EASTERN BLUEBIRD'S VOCAL REPERTOIRE . By JAMES M . HARTSHORNE, Cornell University .
Friday Morning, December 30th, 1960 Symposium : TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 1 . ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR IN BIOLOGY TEACHING E . B . HALE presiding INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM. E . B. HALE, Pennsylvania State University . ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AS A BIOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE. By J. P . SCOTT, Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IN COLLEGE BIOLOGY. By B . E . GINSBURG, University of Chicago . ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IN SECONDARY-SCHOOL BIOLOGY . By A. J . BAKER, Crystal Lake High School, Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Friday Afternoon, December 30th Symposium : TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, II. TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR ARTHUR J . BAKER presiding FILM INSTRUCTION. By C. R. CARPENTER,
Pennsylvania
State University .
VERTEBRATE MATERIALS . By W . C . DILGER, Cornell University . INVERTEBRATE MATERIALS . By THOMAS SMYTH, Jr ., Pennsylvania State University . SPECIAL PROJECTS . By WALTER GOHMAN, Iowa State Teachers College Laboratory School, OPEN DISCUSSION.
Wednesday Morning, December 28th, 1960 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, I . EARLY EXPERIENCE HELEN BLAUVELT presiding EARLY PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN PRAYING MANTIDS. By SOL KRAMER, State University of New York . THE IMPRINTING OBJECT AS A REINFORCING STIMULUS . By B. A. CAMPBELL and J. R. PICKLEMAN, Princetown University. DEVELOPMENTAL AGE AS A BASELINE FOR DETERMINING THE CRITICAL PERIOD IN IMPRINTING . By GILBERT GOTTLIEB, Duke University. INFANTILE EXPERIENCE WITH SPECIFIC VISUAL STIMULI AS RELATED TO LATER DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH RESPONSES IN RATS . By ETHEL TOBACH, L . VROMAN, G. TURKEWITZ & T. C . SCHNEIRLA, American Museum of Natural History . EFFECTS OF EARLY SOCIAL EXPERIENCE ON AGGRESSIVE PLAY IN YOUNG GOATS . By HELEN BLAUVELT & A. ULRICH MOORE, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse and Cornell University . ANIMAL HYPNOSIS (TONIC IMMOBILITY) CONSIDERED AS A PARAMETER OF BEHAVIOR IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN A GROUP OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL (EXPERIMENTAL) LAMBS AND KIDS. By A . ULRIC MOORE & MARVIN AMSTEY, Cornell University . EFFECTS OF GRADED AND DELAYED EXPERIENCE ON BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUPPIES . By JOHN L. FULLER, Jackson Memorial Laboratory . RESPONSE TO NESTING MATERIALS BY WILD-BORN AND CAPTIVE-BORN CHIMPANZEES . By IRWIN S . BERNSTEIN, Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida .
Wednesday Afternoon, December 28th ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, II C . R. CARPENTER presiding PERSISTENCE OF A CONDITIONED RESPONSE IN THE CICHLID FISH, Tilapia macrocephala, AFTER FOREBRAIN AND CEREBELLAR ABLATIONS . By LESTER D . ARONSON & RONALD HERBERMAN, American Museum of Natural History . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF PREWEANING MANIPULATION IN TWO STRAINS OF RATS . By LEO VROMAN, E. TOBACH, G. TURKEWITZ & T. C. SCHNEIRLA, American Museum of Natural History . AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GOATS AND SHEEP . By HELEN BLAUVELT & A. ULRIC MOORE, State University of New York and Cornell University . FLIGHT AND SWIMMING REFLEXES IN GIANT WATER BUGS . By HUGH DINGLE, University of Michigan. ECOLOGICAL SIMILARITY AND CANNIBALISTIC INTERACTION IN THE MONARCH AND QUEEN BUTTERFLIES, Danaus plexippus and D . bereuke . By LINCOLN P . BROWER, Amherst College. 118
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTION OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
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A STUDY OF HOMING IN THE COTTON MOUSE, Peromycus gossypinus . By JAMES V . GRIFFO, Jr ., Fairleigh Dickinson University .
POPULATION ANALYSIS, GROUP COMPOSITION AND BEHAVIOR OF HOWLER MONKEYS
(Alouatta
palliata) OF BARRO COLORADO ISLAND IN 1959 . By C . R . CARPENTER, Pennsylvania State University .
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR : INNER-ORIENTATION OF POPULATION IN A FUNCTIONAL AREA . By ERNEST M . KUHINKA, Dickinson College .
. Thursday Morning, December 29th, 1960 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, III . SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR EVELYN SHAW presiding.
A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR IN THE QUEEN BUTTERFLY, Danaas berenice (Cramer) . By LINCOLN P. BROWER & FLORENCE P . CRANSTON, Amherst College and Harvard Medical School . SEX DISCRIMINATION IN SPECIES OF Colisa and Trichogaster. By ANTHONY R . PICCIOLO, University of Maryland.
COLOR CHANGES CORRELATED WITH PARENTAL BEHAVIOR IN CICHLID FISH . By SOL KRAMER, State University of New York .
SPAWNING AND PARENTAL BEHAVIOR IN FEMALE PAIRS OF THE JEWEL FISH, Hemichromls bimaculatus Gill. By BERNARD GREENBERG, Roosevelt University. EFFECT OF TESTOSTERONE ON OCCURRENCE OF SOME DUCK DISPLAYS . By RICHARD E. PHILLIPS & D . FRANK McKINNEY, Cornell University and Delta Waterfowl Research Station . A MOTIVATIONAL INTERPRETATION OF THE GREETING DISPLAY IN GEESE . By ROBERT B . KLOPMAN, Cornell University.
ROLE OF HEAD HEIGHT IN RELEASING SEXUAL VERSUS FIGHTING BEHAVIOR IN TURKEYS . By E . B. HALE, Pennsylvania State University . SOME ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORAL EVOLUTION . By ROBERT W . FICKEN, Cornell University . THE EVOLUTION OF AGONISTIC, PRE-COPULATORY AND NEST-BUILDING BEHAVIOR IN THE AFRICAN PARROT GENUS Agapornis. By WILLIAM C. DILGER, Cornell University .
Thursday Afternoon, December 29th ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, IV . SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AND COMMUNICATION J . L . FULLER presiding SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN INBRED STRAINS OF MICE . By THOMAS E . McGILL, Williams College . CHANGES IN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN SPAYED FEMALE GUINEA PIGS FOLLOWING HYPOTHALAMIC LESIONS . By LARRY L . MORGENSTERN, University of Kansas. ACOUSTICAL BEHAVIOR AND COURTSHIP OF CONENOSE BUGS (Himiptera, Reduviidae, Triatondnae) . By THOMAS E . MOORE, University of Michigan . AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE SINGING BEHAVIOR OF THE TRUE KATYDID (Pterophylla : Tettigoniicae). By KENNETH C . SHAW, University of Michigan . THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUND PRODUCTION DURING THE REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR OF Notropis analostanus . By JOHN F. STOUT, University of Maryland. SOUND PRODUCTION OF SQUIRREL FISHES . By HOWARD E. WINN & JOSEPH MARSHALL, University
of Maryland.
120
ANIMAL
BEHAVIOUR, IX, 1 .2
SOUND SPECTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF A CONTINUOUS SINGER, THE MOCKING BIRD. By D. K' HUNTER & ROBERT SELANDER, University of Texas and American Museum of Natural History. THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EASTERN BLUEBIRD'S VOCAL REPERTOIRE . By JAMES M . HARTSHORNE, Cornell University .
Friday Morning, December 30th, 1960 Symposium : TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 1 . ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR IN BIOLOGY TEACHING E . B . HALE presiding INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM. E . B. HALE, Pennsylvania State University . ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AS A BIOLOGICAL DISCIPLINE. By J. P . SCOTT, Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IN COLLEGE BIOLOGY. By B . E . GINSBURG, University of Chicago . ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IN SECONDARY-SCHOOL BIOLOGY . By A. J . BAKER, Crystal Lake High School, Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Friday Afternoon, December 30th Symposium : TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, II. TECHNIQUES IN TEACHING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR ARTHUR J . BAKER presiding FILM INSTRUCTION. By C. R. CARPENTER,
Pennsylvania
State University .
VERTEBRATE MATERIALS . By W . C . DILGER, Cornell University . INVERTEBRATE MATERIALS . By THOMAS SMYTH, Jr ., Pennsylvania State University . SPECIAL PROJECTS . By WALTER GOHMAN, Iowa State Teachers College Laboratory School, OPEN DISCUSSION.