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A. Amazing Animal Abilities |
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3. Dancing Maps 5. Mouse Opera 6. Magpie Choir |
10. 12. Strong as an Ant 14. Animal Builders |
1. Boys Who Decorate
Story Sources:
Attenborough, David. "Animal behaviour of the Australian bowerbird." BBC Wildlife (video).
Web: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbWJPsBPdA
"Bowerbird." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 1 December 2008.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bowerbird&oldid=255168981
"Bowerbirds." New South Wales Government, Department of Environment and Climate Change. September 2002.
Web: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/plantsanimals/Bowerbirds.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQttSUXH
Friend, Tim. Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language. New York: Free Press, 2005.
Wyckoff, Betsy and Barbara Goodman. Talking Apes & Dancing Bees: Intelligence, Emotions, and Other Marvels of the Animal Kingdom. Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1999.
2. Butterfly Journeys
Story and Background Sources:
Butterfly Conservation
Web: http://www.butterfly-conservation.org
Monarch Watch
Web: http://www.monarchwatch.org/class/studproj/vector.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5cs38mDPI
Papalotzin
Web: http://www.aireimagen.com.mx/english/papalotzin/travesia.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5cp8Ld6Vb
Garcia-Navarro, Lourdes. "Studies Reveal Mechanisms of Monarch Migration." NPR. 4 February 2005 (with audio clip)
Web: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18024428
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQtXCxhn
Gibo, T. "Tactics and Vectors." University of Toronto. 1998.
Web: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3gibo/index.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5cs3PKqsF
McKinley, James C., Jr. "To Save Endangered Butterfly, Become a Butterfly." New York Times. 8 November 2005.
Web: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/science/earth/08monarch.html?_r=1
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQuKuuy3
McNeil, Donald G. "Fly Away Home." New York Times. 3 October 2006.
Web: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/science/03butter.html?scp=1&sq=fly+away+home+monarch&st=nyt
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQuidQlU
McNeil, Donald G. "Ask Science: Fly Away Home Q&A." New York Times. 6 October 2006.
Web: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/science/06askscience.html?scp=6&sq=monarch butterflies&st=cse
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQuzqHrk
"Mexico Targets Loggers to Protect Butterflies." NPR. 7 December 2007 (with audio clip)
Web: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16996756
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQxnKwv1
Nielsen, John. "Following the Monarchs in an Ultralight Airplane." NPR. 22 September 2005 (with audio clip)
Web: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4858381
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQy073rW
3. Dancing Maps
Story and Background Information Sources:
Daniels-Zeller, Debra. "Colony Collapse Disorder." PCC Natural Markets. October 2007.
Web: http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/0710/sc0710-bees.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYaYNyb
"Declining honeybees a 'threat' to food supply: U.S. dependent on insects to pollinate about one-third of crops." MSNBC. 2 May 2007.
Web: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18442426/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYcSKuB
Giurfa, Martin et al., "The concepts of 'sameness' and 'difference' in an insect." Nature, Vol. 410(6831), pp 930-933. 19 April 2001.
Web: http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/spackled/2010readings/Giurfa.Honeybees.pdf
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vzLYy7Ay
Gutierrez, David. "Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Finally Explained: Too Many Chemicals." Natural News Network. 24 March 2010.
Web: http://www.naturalnews.com/028429_colony_collapse_disorder_chemicals.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYeWO9U
Mayles, Rick. "Do bees buzz to communicate with each other." WebWorldArticles.com. 15 August 2010
Web: http://www.webworldarticles.com/e/a/title/Do-bees-buzz-to-communicate-with-each-other/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYgoI8o
Mayles, Rick. "How do bees hear and feel different tastes." WebWorldArticles.com. 15 August 2010
Web: http://www.webworldarticles.com/e/a/title/How-do-bees-hear-and-feel-different-tastes/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYlUmXN
Narby, Jeremy. Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge. New York, NY: The Penguin Group, 2006.
"Professor Helps Develop Techniques To Reduce Threat Against Honeybees." TerraDaily. 23 May 2007.
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYqmPNt
"Robobees: Insect-like robots are creating a buzz." RT. 7 December 2009.
Web: http://rt.com/usa/news/robobees-insect-like-robots/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5vgYsXWGw
Wyckoff, Betsy and Barbara Goodman. Talking Apes & Dancing Bees: Intelligence, Emotions, and Other Marvels of the Animal Kingdom. Barrytown: Station Hill Press, 1999.
4. Greatest Hits
Background
Krause, Bernie. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the Worlds Wild Places. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Walker, Matt. "Chimps born to appreciate music." BBC: Earth News. 30 July 2009.
Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8174000/8174534.stm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6DCZqpE2G
Story Sources:
Story One
Carey, Bjorn. "Ship Noise Drowns Out Whale Talk, a Threat to Mating." LiveScience. 20 February 2005
Web: http://www.livescience.com/164-ship-noise-drowns-whale-talk-threat-mating.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/67MzSY17r
"Home Humpback FAQ." The Whalesong Project
Web: http://www.whalesong.net/index.php/humpback-faq
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/67F3ZvD1i
Laist, David W. et al. "Collisions Between Ships and Whales." Marine Mammal Science, 17(1):3575 (January 2001), Society for Marine Mammalogy.
Web: http://mmc.gov/articles/pdf/shipstrike.pdf
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/67N0cgSCa
"Using Cold-War Technology to Study Distribution and Behavior of Large Whales." Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University.
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/67N1HpMWg
Story Two
Qiu, Jane. "Fish Sing, Fish Hear." Journal of Experimental Biology 208, ii (2005). 4 August 2005.
Web: http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/208/16/ii
Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01798
"The cocktail party effect: Fish and human brains perform 'auditory scene analysis' when looking for love in all the loud places." Cornell News. 25 June 1998.
Web: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June98/hummingfish.hrs.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csIxPtHH
Story Three
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff and Susan McCarthy. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Delta, 1996.
Mennill, Daniel. "Female chickadees love the lead singer." University of Windsor. USA Today. 2 May 2002.
Web: http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/biology/dmennill/USAtoday.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csJH7Bsl
Story Four
"Crested gibbon (Hylobates concolor) At home in the top of the trees." Natur Spot Animal magazine.
Web: http://magazine.naturspot.de/text/crested-gibbon.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQyOfXA5
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff and Susan McCarthy. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Delta, 1996.
Activity Source:
Part Four
"Human Noises Cause Fish Stress and Tissue Damage." The Fish Site. 1 April 2009.
Web: http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/9519/human-noises-cause-fish-stress-and-tissue-damage
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5fwJcuzzk
5. Mouse Opera
Story Sources:
Story One
Holy, TE and Guo Z (2005) "Ultrasonic Songs of Male Mice." PLoS Biol 3(12): e386
Web: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0030386
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csTsPzg3
Sample, Ian. "Why male mice feel urge to break out into song." guardian.co.uk. 1 November 2005.
Web: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/nov/01/research.highereducation
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csUFBZbz
Story Two
Sikora, Rae. Personal account.
6. Magpie Choir
7. Homeward Bound
Story Sources:
Campbell, H. A., Watts, M. E., Sullivan, S., Read, M. A., Choukroun, S., Irwin, S. R. and Franklin, C. E. "Estuarine crocodiles ride surface currents to facilitate long-distance travel." Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 955964. British Ecological Society, 2010.
Web: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01709.x/full
Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01709.x
Read, Mark A., Grigg, G. C., Irwin, S. R., Shanahan, D., and Franklin, C. E. "Satellite Tracking Reveals Long Distance Coastal Travel and Homing by Translocated Estuarine Crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus." PLoS ONE 2(9): e949. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000949. 26 September 2007.
Web: http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000949
Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000949
Robbins, John. The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. San Francisco: Conari Press, 2011 (Blackie story quoted from World Farming newsletter).
"Saltwater crocodiles can find their way home." AAAS: EurekAlert. 25 September 2007.
Web: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/plos-scc092407.php
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQyfEoU5
Sheldrake, Rupert. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000.
Steiger, Sherry Hansen and Brad Steiger. The Mysteries of Animal Intelligence: True Stories of Animals with Amazing Abilities. New York: Tor Books, 2007.
Activity Four, Reference:
Minard, Anne. "'Weird Beastie' Shrimp Have Super-Vision." National Geographic News. 19 May 2008
Web: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080519-shrimp-colors.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5iZ1YKSap
"New type of vision found in shrimp." University of Queensland: UK News Online. 20 March 2008.
Web: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=14283
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5xQyrX30g
8. Led by a Tail
Story Source
Sikora, Rae. Personal account.
Activity Two
"Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds." The Guardian. 24 October 2010.
Web: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/bees-route-finding-problems
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6EkmcPunn
9. Psychic Dogs A special knowing
Background and Stories
Kenneally, Christine. Surviving the Tsunami: What Sri Lanka's animals knew that humans didn't. Slate. 30 December 2004.
Web: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2004/12/surviving_the_tsunami.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlN0XmI7
Mott, Maryann. "Did Animals Sense Tsunami Was Coming?" National Geographic News. 4 January 2005.
Web: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_tsunami_animals.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlN3H7tB
Sheldrake, Rupert. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000.
Activity One (plants and sound)
Telewski, Frank W. "A unified hypothesis of mechanoperception in plants: External mechanical forces" American Journal of Botany. 16 August 2006.
Web: http://www.amjbot.org/content/93/10/1466.full
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlN4oLB0
Activity Two: Background
Gleick, James. "New Appreciation Of the Complexity In a Flock of Birds." The New York Times. 24 November 1987
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlN67AAa
Owen, James. "Unlocking How Flocks Stop, Turn, and Swirl in Unison." National Geographic News. 4 March 2005.
Web: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0304_050304_flocking.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlN8GIWj
"Researchers Unravel the Magic of Flocks of Starlings." ScienceDaily. 16 August 2011.
Web: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110808083655.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6BlNE8PGg
Activity Two: Tests
Caduto, Michael J. and Bruchac, Joseph. Keepers of the Animals: Native American Stories and Wildlife Activities for Children. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1991.
10. Love Lights light language
Angier, Natalie. Smithsonian magazine. JulyAugust 2010.
Web: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Listening-to-Bacteria.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3HZvbkZ
"Bioluminescence." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 31 October 2012.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence
Permanent Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bioluminescence&oldid=520683847
Branham, Marc. "The Firefly Files." Ohio State University: Museum of Biological Diversity. 1998.
Web: http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projects/FFiles/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3HfQYJ4
Brinckloe, Julie, Fireflies!! New York: Aladdin (Simon & Schuster), 1986. (Note: This is a children's book.)
Colwell, Kitran. "Bioluminescence." The Quantum Immortal.
Web: http://www.quantum-immortal.net/physics/biolum.php
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3HhXx1Y
{This page is very nicely done and informative, but you should be aware that the whole site is essentially an advertisement for this one guy. I don't know if you care.}}
"Firefly or Lightning Bug." Enchanted Learning.
Web: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/beetles/Fireflyprintout.shtml
Archived by WebCiteŽ: {site refuses to be archivedit's a subscription site}
Friend, Tim. Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language. New York: Free Press, 2005.
Hadhazy, Adam. "Shining Examples: 10 Bioluminescent Creatures that Glow in Surprising Ways [Slide Show]." Scientific American. 18 December 2009.
Web: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bioluminescent-avatar
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3IHt6Of
"Pennsylvania Firefly." Fairfax County Public Schools: Island Creek Elementary School, Virginia.
Web: http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/pennsylvania_firefly.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3HolXrt
Udasin, Sharon. "Glow-in-the-dark marine bacteria lure predators." Jerusalem Postt. 26 February 2012.
Web: http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=259515
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Wilson, Tracy V. "How Bioluminescence Works." howstuffworks.
Web: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/all-about-animals/bioluminescence.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6C3Ht4pEI
11. Loving the Nightlifee
Story Source:
Sikora, Rae. Personal account.
Background Information about Bats:
"All About Bats/Intro to Bats." Bat Conservation International.
Web: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/all-about-bats/intro-to-bats.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5oQqqtf3c
12. Strong as an Ant
13. Animal Cartographers
Story Sources:
Stories One and Two
"Baboons And Pigeons Are Capable Of Higher-Level Cognition,
Behavioral Studies Show." ScienceDaily. 16 February 2009.
Web:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141143.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/61zGgszhe
Page, George. The Singing Gorilla: Understanding Animal Intelligence. London: Headline Book Publishing Ltd, 2000.
Story Three
Briggs, Helen. "Chimps beat humans in memory test." BBC News. 3 December 2007.
Web:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7124156.stm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csXURDzw
Ritter, Malcolm. "Young Chimp Outscores College Students in Memory Test." National Geographic News. 3 December 2007
Web: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071203-AP-chimp-memory.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/5csXmbeiS
14. Animal Builders
Background Sources:
Background about Animal Builders
Hancocks, David. Master Builders of the Animal World. NY, NY: Harper & Row, 1973.
Background about Beavers and Termites
Gould, James. R. and Carol Grant Gould. Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, 2007.
Hansell, Mike. Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture. NY, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2009.
Background about Beavers
"Beaver." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 26 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beaver&oldid=452494115
"Keystone species." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 22 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keystone_species&oldid=451932830
Mills, Enos A. In Beaver World. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Richards, Dorothy and Hope Sawyer Buyukmihci. Beaversprite: My Years Building an Animal Sanctuary. Interlacken, NY: Heart of the Lakes Publishing, 1983.
Background about Termites
Soos, Andy. "Termite Mounds." ENN (Environmental News Network). 8 September 2010.
Web: http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/41751
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/621V9kxGk
"Termite." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 26 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Termite&oldid=452526410
Story Sources:
Story One
Buyukmihci, Hope S., Hans Fantel, and John Pimlott. Unexpected Treasure. NY, NY: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1968.
Ryden, Hope. Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers. Scranton, PA: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1989.
Ryden, Hope. The Beaver. NY, NY: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1986.
Story Two
"Biomimicry." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 20 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimicry
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biomimicry&oldid=451442201
Doan, Abigail. "Green Building in Zimbabwe Modeled After Termite Mounds." Inhabitat.com.10 December 2007.
Web: http://inhabitat.com/building-modelled-on-termites-eastgate-centre-in-zimbabwe/
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/621VFMVJc
Activity Sources:
Activity One
"Ant colony." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 9 August 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ant_colony&oldid=443882004
"Artificial reef." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 15 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_reef
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Artificial_reef&oldid=450705379
Dombrowski, Christopher. "Self-assembling rafts: how fire ants survive floods." Ars Technica. May 2011.
Web: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/self-assembling-rafts-how-fire-ants-survive-floods.ars
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/621VQNZlJ
Khan, Amina. "Mystery of floating fire ants solved." The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 May 2011.
Web: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mystery-of-floating-fire-ants-solved-20110502-1e3r1.html
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"Orb-weaver spider." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 21 September 2011.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orb-weaver_spider&oldid=451701693
"Small Mammals of North Dakota: Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus." Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, USGS (U.S. Geological Survey), 3 August 2006.
Web: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/mammals/prairie.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/621VZbtPd
Walker, Matt. "Ant mega-colony takes over world." BBC: Earth News. 1 July 2009.
Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8127000/8127519.stm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/621VdZ0DN
Activity Two
"Ecological succession." 13 October 2011
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecological_succession&oldid=455393705
"Ecological Succession: Transformation of Communities Over Time." Morning Earth
Web: http://www.morning-earth.org/graphic-e/Transf-Success.htm
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/62wlfqJ83
Kimball, John W. "Plant Succession." Kimball's Biology Pages 6 May 2011
Web: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/Succession.html
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15. Amazing Animals Extraordinary Ordinary
Websites:
Barriaux, Marianne. "Dogs trained to warn of an imminent epileptic fit." The Guardian. 15 October 2006.
Web: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/oct/16/lifeandhealth.medicineandhealth
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6IHntdfbI
"Cetaceans: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises." Save the Whales.
Web: http://www.savethewhales.org/about_whales.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6IJDIme5s
Chudler, Eric H. "Neuroscience for Kids: Amazing Animal Senses." University of Washington.
Web: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html
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Correa, Julio E. "The Dog's Sense of Smell." Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M University and Auburn University). June, 2011.
Web: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/U/UNP-0066/UNP-0066.pdf
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"Dogs Smell Diabetic Attacks Coming." National Geographic News. 28 October 2010.
Web: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090630-diabetes-dogs-video-ap.html
Archived by WebCiteŽ: http://www.webcitation.org/6IHnpaDAP
"Infrasound." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 7 May 2013.
Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
Permanent Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infrasound&oldid=554037379
Klappenbach, Laura. "The wild side of animal senses: Beyond the five human senses." All-Creatures.org. Animals in Print: The On-Line Newsletter. 11 August 2004.
Web: http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-20040811-wild.html
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Maugh II, Thomas H. "Tip them over and they still point north: Images show cows tend to orient themselves like a compass needle." Los Angeles Times. 26 August 2008.
Web: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/26/science/sci-cows26
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Nguyen, ThienVinh. "Animals with Superpowers (PHOTOS, VIDEO)." Huffington Post Green. 25 May11.
Web: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/28/animals-with-superpowers_n_368130.html
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Reyes, Mary. "25 Amazing Facts You Didnt Know About Animals." List25. 19 November 2012.
Web: http://list25.com/25-amazing-facts-you-didnt-know-about-animals/
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