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• BBC: Attenborough - Elephant Seals, featuring the Beach Master!

  Click to see the BBC Video: Read More... Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 11:05 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: groups, lecture07, harem

• The Black-tailed Godwit - maintaining pair bonds across seasons

  Photo by Marek Szczepanek Gunnarsson, T. G., J. A. Gill, T. Sigurbjörnsson & W. J. Sutherland, 2004. Pair bonds: Arrival synchrony in migratory birds. Nature, 431(646), doi:10.1038/431646a. Abstract - Synchronous arrival of pairs of migratory birds at Read More... Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:51 PM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: groups, lecture07, pair

• Essay on Cooperative breeding

  Paul Ehrlich, David Dobkin & Darryl Wheye, 1988. “Cooperative Breeding” in The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds Including All Species That Regularly Breed North of Mexico. Simon and Schuster, New York. The Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:12 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: groups, lecture07, family

• Oriental Pied Hornbill - breeding in Pulau Ubin

  "There are slightly more than a dozen Oriental Pied Hornbills ( Anthracoceros albirostris ) in Singapore’s offshore island of Pulau Ubin. There they breed regularly, nesting in cavities found high up along the trunks of old trees." See "Oriental Pied Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:37 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: groups, lecture07, pair

• Elephant predation by lions

  Joubert, D., 2006. Hunting behaviour of lions ( Panthera leo ) on elephants ( Loxodonta africana ) in the Chobe National Park, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology, 44(2): 279–281 . Introduction - Megaherbivores like elephants and rhinos have been regarded Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:33 AM by N. Sivasothi | 0 Comments Filed under: groups, lecture07