Apologies for the long delay; this past week was very unpleasant. See personal blog for details if interested.
Animal Signals Notes
Ch. 3 – Strategic Signals and Minimal Cost Signals
3 main reasons for signal reliability:
handicap principle: signal is too costly for signaler of low-quality
no gain to signaler by lying even if signal is cost-free [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Finally
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Plans
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Or, in my case, those plans are delayed by illness, job commitments, and a pile of homework.
Updates will return as soon as possible (or as soon as I can without completely foregoing sleep).
Useful Papers?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been very sick all weekend and still don’t have full mental capacity (I barely managed to order a sandwich for lunch without falling over), so I’m listing titles, authors, and abstracts of papers that may be useful once I’m well again and can figure out what they say:
1. Recent behavioral history [...]
Endnote
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Must be transferred from a master copy in possession of someone at OU. It is not available from IT as far as I can tell. Dr. Lawson in the microbiology department has one.
IACUC
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IACUC forms must be filed 1 week prior to scheduled meetings. There’s a meeting on August 14th, but that is in less than a week. The next meeting is listed on the website as October 26 at 11:30-12:30, Sutton Hall Rm # 312. This is both good and bad. I have [...]
Animal Signals Ch. 1-2
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Chapter 1 gives some background on previous usages of terms, then defines and explains the terms that the authors of this book use consistently through the rest of the text. I was familiar with the majority of the terms, except for the more technical aspects of signaling and a few terms that were different [...]
Animal Communication Ch. 1 and 12
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Animal Communication text chapters gave a nice review of behavior optimization and other things we learned in Behavior last semester. Unfortunately I have trouble keeping myself focused when I’m trying to read a review of things I’ve already learned. That’s the main reason it took me a couple of days to blog [...]
