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Exercises from previous issues of the ASAB Education Newsletter, FEEDBACK.

Issue
Title
1 Adaptive behaviour in peppered moths
The speckled and melanic forms of the peppered moth Biston betularia
2 Foraging behaviour in oystercatchers
Foraging in oystercatchers
3 Aggressive behaviour in sticklebacks
Stickleback mating strategies
5 Courtship behaviour of peacocks
One of the most striking features of a peacock's tail is that some of the feathers end in an apparent eye-spot.
6 Parental behaviour of greater flamingoes
In the wild, greater flamingoes breed in very large numbers on salt or soda lakes. Often there are thousands of birds.
8 Orange-tufted sunbird
Parental care in the orange-tufted sunbird
9 Adoption in the emperor penguin
Emperor penguins breed in the Antarctic, under the harshest conditions for any species of bird.
10 Infant capuchin monkeys
The behaviour of infant capuchin monkeys when presented with novel, unfamiliar foods.
11 Vigilance in harbour seals
How much time do seals spend looking for predators, and in which direction do they face when they haul out of the water?
12 Effect of mobbing on the behaviour of an owl
When birds mob a predator they gather near it, call loudly, fly close to it and occasionally even strike it.
14 Allosuckling in fallow deer
Females usually feed only their own fawns, but a recent study has shown that they sometimes allow other fawns to take milk from them.
16 Case-building in caddis fly larvae
Caddis flies spend the larval stage of their development in a case on the bed of a stream.
16 Does handling produce less timid lambs?
Can early experience with humans make lambs less timid and stressed?
19 Gunnison's prairie dogs
Why do female prairie dogs often have more than one mate?
26 Starling learning
Can starlings learn from one another?