Interspecific Communicative and Coordinated Hunting between Groupers and Giant Moray Eels in the Red Sea

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"This is a new answer for now - I'll update it as I look through my old links for more. Please feel free to suggest edits. But I do want this to be scientific (e.g. I'm going to avoid unverifiable claims like John Lilly's, Victor the Budgie, Arielle the macaw, etc) Note: I'm primarily interested in convergent evolution, so there will be surprisingly few resources for the great apes here - someone else here can feel free to cash in Professor/Research Webpages With intelligence-based focus http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/lefebvre/ http://www.biosci.unl.edu/avcog/ http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/dev/index.php http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/index.html - Behavioral Ecology Research Group With behavior-based focus http://www.whalesharkproject.org/ http://www.topp.org/ http://www.tagagiant.org/ http://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2010/10/n010p021.pdf http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/skh/pubs/Hooker_etal_2007_DSR_Biologging.pdf http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/03/10/rsbl.2009.0089 Amazing Tutorial on Insect Intelligence http://bioteaching.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/insect-brains-and-animal-intelligence/ Mirror test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test (note: Marzluff says there are flaws with the Magpie experiment, and that ravens don't pass. Irene Pepperberg reports ambiguous results for African Gray Parrots; though the owner of Cosma says that Cosma passes) This could be huge (in the future): http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,356427,00.html Professors who have done a lot, but whose webpages don't show much: http://faculty.washington.edu/dpbarash/ http://www.cfr.washington.edu/SFRPublic/People/facultyProfile.aspx?PID=10 Somewhat reductionistic textbooks (but still interesting - one must always keep reductionism in mind): E.O Wilson's Sociobiology: http://www.amazon.com/Sociobiology-New-Synthesis-Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary/dp/0674002350 Also see Selfish Gene and Extended Phenotype (both by Dawkins) Webpages featuring animals famous for intelligence case studies http://www.greatapetrust.org/ http://www.alexfoundation.org/index2.html Book Lists http://books.google.com/books?uid=109982067040770166048&as_coll=1015&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list http://www.amazon.com/lm/RYDB8UNL8FQ7K/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view?ie=UTF8&lm_bb= http://books.google.com/books?id=JzdmQgAACAAJ Pages with detailed information on more specific animals http://www.exoticcatz.com/ Books http://books.google.com/books?id=JzdmQgAACAAJ There are several animal behavior textbooks, but many are unnecessarily expensive and outdated (and few of them have adopted to the revolution in understanding we obtained in the last 10 years) Humor (for animal behavior in particular, "funny/crazy" things that animals do actually *can* form the basis for the formulation and testing of hypotheses) http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Acracked.com+animals - (lots of articles on cracked.com about the most unusual of animal behaviors - it actually does its research quite well) http://www.cracked.com/article_18766_5-creepy-ways-animal-societies-are-organizing_p2.html http://www.cracked.com/article_17453_5-diabolical-animals-that-out-witted-humans.html http://www.cracked.com/article_19042_6-terrifying-ways-crows-are-way-smarter-than-you-think.html http://www.cracked.com/article_19263_the-6-most-disturbingly-evil-birds.html - in birds Youtube Videos - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DE906F607CB50BEB Animals Unusually Intelligent for their clade (useful for convergent evolution hypotheses) Cephalopods (particularly octopuses), crows/parrots, manta rays, hammerhead sharks, monitor lizards, elephants, cetaceans, mantis shrimp polychaete annelid worms (errantia in a newly constructed phylogenetic tree), velvet worms (similar to basal arthropods) Possibly Portia spiders (but there is skepticism about this). I thought Harris Hawks might be an unusual case too, though Marzluff disagrees Various Hypotheses > ""Hi Alex: I am not an expert on orcas but: Do you know if food taboos (based off of orca culture) are probably the reason why orcas separate into fish-eating and mammal-eating pods? Yes, we think that might be behind it. I know that we can't conclusively prove that or anything, but if a transient orca was raised by humans from birth, would it actually eat fish? Yes, there have, as I understand it, been some transients in captivity which end up eating fish, so it is possible. Hal"" Animal Communication Prairie dog "language" - the most complex decoded so far: http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8493000/8493089.stm Dolphins: 2011 Attempt to decode dolphin "language": http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028115.400-talk-with-a-dolphin-via-underwater-translation-machine.html Information theory/entropy (I will get the PDFs of the papers later): http://www.seti.org/meet-our-scientists/laurance-doyle http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/seti-dolphins/ Crows (lots recently: google marzluff + crows. also try googling new calendonian, betty, etc) Amazing 2010 video: http://video.pbs.org/video/1621910826/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/06/30/grudge-holding-crows-pass-on-their-anger-to-family-and-friends/ In the company of crows and ravens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptx1rBE1IL8 http://www.amazon.com/Company-Crows-Ravens-John-Marzluff/dp/0300122551 crazy hypotheses (note: I usually use "crazy" in a positive way): http://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html http://www.wireless.is/projects/crows/ http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2011/05/us_military_spy_crows_binladen.php Crow vs Kea http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article2126527.ece http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/uov-ctu061011.php Paper here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0020231 Keas BBC documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twg4Yg4gFoo Also see Judy Diamond's webpage (http://www.biosci.unl.edu/avcog/) and book on Amazon (google judy diamond + kea) African Gray Parrots http://anguishedrepose.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/are-african-grey-parrots-bird-brains-or-brainiacs-science-isnt-for-sure/ google alex parrot + irene pepperberg. also google alex foundation Owls http://www.wesleytheowl.com/ Monitor Lizards http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/lizard-kings.html Stingrays http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8452000/8452008.stm Groupers and Moray eels: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0040431 http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/a-fishy-alliance-cooperative-hunting-in-grouper-fish-moray-eels/ Others Facebook Group - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43506898972 CiteULike – Journal Articles I’ve collected - http://www.citeulike.org/user/InquilineKea/tag/animal_cognition delicious (pre-2008) - http://www.delicious.com/inquilinekea/animalbehavior http://simfishthoughts.wordpress.com/animal-intelligence/ - my thoughts - though this needs some revising after I talked with Marzluff Unusual (gruesome) behavior http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028154.700-californian-dolphin-gang-caught-killing-porpoises.html"