Absdigest Digest, Vol 16, Issue 17

James Ha jcha at u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 2 18:28:33 EDT 2008 

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Editors: * James C. Ha      Internet: jcha at u.washington.edu
        ** Shan D. Duncan   Internet: sdduncan at abs.animalbehavior.org


Today's Topics:

  1. Animal Language Institute (Con Slobodchikoff)
  2. Video Playback and Color (Tory Holland)
  3. Australian PhD opportunity on sexual selection in squid (Bob Wong)
>4. ABS Annual Meeting - Snowbird08: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT
     SUBMISSIONS	*AND* REGISTRATIONS EXTENDED TO JUNE 6TH 2008
     (Shan Duncan)


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Message: 1
From: Con Slobodchikoff <Con.Slobodchikoff at nau.edu>
Subject: Animal Language Institute

You are invited to come and visit the website of the Animal Language
Institute, http://www.animallanguageinstitute.org

The Animal Language Institute is a website designed to promote interest in 
animal communication research, especially where it touches upon the 
cognitive capabilities of animals. With the Internet extending past 
barriers of geography, politics, and economics, the Animal Language 
Institute is an ideal way to bring together researchers, students, and 
curious laypeople from around the world to share ideas and information 
that will deepen our understanding about the communication systems of 
other species.

First, the Animal Language Institute website hopes to be the most 
extensive and easily accessible repository of information about research 
into the communication and cognitive abilities of various species of 
animals. Towards this end, we are amassing a core collection of 
outstanding scientific papers that will be available to any registered 
visitor.

Second, by inviting seriously dedicated individuals to participate in the 
Institute, we aim to provide a forum for dialogue and lively debate about 
such things as comparisons between species, possible development of 
integrated theories, and sharing of techniques.

As the interactive capabilities of the Internet expand, so too will the 
opportunities offered through this website.

The Institute website currently has five major sections: 1) A database of 
papers published on animal communication; 2) A listing of people who are 
doing important work in the field; 3) Equipment and software reviews; 4) 
Interactive tutorials; 5) a forum for discussions. In the future, we will 
be adding an on-line journal where original research contributions and 
theory papers can be published. At this point, the Animal Language 
Institute is a work-in-progress.

We will maintain open access to the webpages of the Animal Language 
Institute for the next month, so that anyone can access any page without 
registering. After that, we will ask people to register in order to access 
some parts of the website. Registration is free, and can be done at any 
time. We are asking people to register so that we can keep track of how 
many people are using the resources of the site. Our privacy policy shows 
that we will keep all registration information confidential, and we will 
not knowingly divulge any information to anyone.

We invite you to stop by, and bookmark the Institute’s website: 
http://www.animallanguageinstitute.org . Our mission statement is 
expressed in detail on our home page, and all doors to other sections are 
currently open. We invite your feedback, your ideas, and submittal of any 
of your writings that you may wish to contribute. It is important that the 
ideas of thinkers in this field see the light of day beyond the 
traditional journal review process.

Thank you for your attention, and welcome!

Con Slobodchikoff

Bill Briggs

Patricia Dennis

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Dr. C. N. Slobodchikoff
Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
Phone: 	928-523-7231 Office
 	928-523-7233 Laboratory
 	928-523-7500 Fax
Website: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cns3




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Message: 2
From: "Tory Holland" <tangopinguino at gmail.com>
Subject: Video Playback and Color

To Whom it May Concern:

My name is Tory Holland and I am a graduate student at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County.  I am interested in using video playback as a
technique to study the role of coloration in intraspecies communication and
preference among darters (*Etheostoma*).  I am aware that there is some
controversy as to whether it is appropriate to use video playback to study
animal coloration.  However, I feel that a well-designed experiment could
help identify and explain possible behavioral effects of vast color
diversification across darter species.  Does anyone have any thoughts
regarding the use of video playback to study the role of color patterns in
fish?

Thank you for your time,

Tory Holland


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Message: 3
From: Bob Wong <bob.wong at sci.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Australian PhD opportunity on sexual selection in squid

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student with an interest in
evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology to undertake a project
examining male sperm competition and female promiscuity in an
Australian cephlapod, the southern dumpling squid. The project will
involve field, experimental and molecular components  and will be based
in Melbourne, Australia. The project will be jointly supervised by Dr.
Devi Stuart-Fox (University of Melbourne), Dr Mark Norman (Museum
Victoria) and Dr. Bob Wong (Monash University). For further
information, please contact Devi Stuart-Fox (Email:
devis at unimelb.edu.au; Ph: + 61 3 8344 4846)

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Message: 4
From: Shan Duncan <sdduncan at abs.animalbehavior.org>
Subject: ABS Annual Meeting - Snowbird08: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT
 	SUBMISSIONS *AND* REGISTRATIONS EXTENDED TO JUNE 6TH 2008

ABS Annual Meeting - Snowbird08: DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
*AND* REGISTRATIONS EXTENDED TO JUNE 6TH 2008

Submissions for all presentations will close on the night of June 6th, 
2008, at midnight EST (24:00 military time). Submission for contributed 
talks will close when the limit is reached or the deadline, whichever 
comes first.


http://www.animalbehavior.org/Snowbird08/






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Contact Addresses:

   James Ha
   Department of Psychology and  National Primate Research Center
   University of Washington,  Seattle, WA  98195

   Shan D. Duncan
   Animal Behavior Society Central Office at Indiana University
   2611 East 10th Street #170,  Bloomington,  IN  47405
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