animal behavior

Drugged spiders’ web spinning may hold keys to understanding animal behavior

“Spinning under the influence” is one way to describe recent activities in the Costa Rican laboratory of Smithsonian scientist William Eberhard. An entomologist at the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute, Eberhard recently carried out a series of experiments in which he observed the web-building behavior of dozens of spiders under the influence of drugs—specifically, a chemical injected into their bodies by parasitic wasps.

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animal behavior

Animal behavior: concepts, methods, and applications / Shawn E. Nordell, Washington University in St. Louis, Thomas J. Valone, Saint Louis University

Hayden Library - QL751.N74 2017




animal behavior

Animal behavior / Dustin R. Rubenstein, Columbia University, John Alcock, Arizona State University

Hayden Library - QL751.A58 2019