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Thanks Shawn and everybody for all the work and contributions so far. <br />
I'm getting value out of the wiki already and am looking forward to more complete content. <br />
There is some great information here so far and the wiki is looking very promising. <br />
I wasn't aware of many of the wiki standards when I started posting, so have posted a lot of non-standard content, but I'm going back and cleaning them up and now I know better when adding new content.<br />
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The wiki practice session is finished. Thanks. [[User:Jdelartigue|Jdelartigue]] 19:08, 22 February 2012 (EST)</div>Jdelartiguehttps://www.limswiki.org/index.php?title=User:Jdelartigue/sandbox&diff=7594User:Jdelartigue/sandbox2012-02-23T00:04:08Z<p>Jdelartigue: Wiki editing practice</p>
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=='''My favorite subject at university'''==<br />
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I studied Biological Sciences in my undergraduate degree at University. My favorite subject that I studied over the course of my degree was animal behavior.<br />
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===Animal behavior===<br />
Animal behavior is also known as ethology and is the scientific study of everything that animals do, from single-celled organisms to multicellular organisms such as fish, birds or mammals. It is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in the biological sciences.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kappeler |first=Peter |editor-first=Anthes |editor-last=N |title=Animal behavior: Evolution and Mechanisms |publisher=Springer |date=2010 |pages=V |chapter=Preface |isbn=9783642026232 }}</ref> It involves the investigation of the relationship of animals to their physical environment, as well as to other animals. Animal behavior researchers are interested in understanding the causes of particular animal behaviors, its purpose, how animals develop said behavior, and its [[Evolutionary_informatics|evolution]] across the natural history of the animal. They study things such as:<br />
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The most interesting part of my animal behavior classes for me was discovering the seemingly complex behaviors of animals we typically don't regard as highly intelligent. An interesting example is that of the urban-dwelling American crow (''Corvus brachrynchus''). These animals eat walnuts. In order to crack the hard shell of the walnut, they have learned to drop the nuts from a great height. Scientists have shown that the thicker the shell, the higher the height the birds choose to drop the nut from. However, if other crows are present, they then adjust the height from which they drop the nut to compensate for the possibility that these other crows may steal their nut (a phenomenon known as [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations/Kleptoparasitism '''kleptoparasitism''']). They have evolved the ability to weigh up the relative pros and cons of dropping the walnuts from various heights.<ref>{{cite journal |first=D.A |last=Cristol |title=Avian prey-dropping behavior II. American Crows and Walnuts |journal=Behavioral Ecology |volume=10 |issue=3 |year=1999 |pages=220–226 |location=Oxford, UK |publisher=Oxford Journals |url=http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/3/220.full |format=PDF |doi=10.1093/beheco/10.3.220 }}</ref><br />
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<div>==About me==<br />
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I'm a freelance science writer researching LIMS and laboratory informatics. This site is always a work in progress; if you spot any major errors, please notify me on [[User_talk:Jdelartigue|my talk page]]. [[User:Jdelartigue|Jdelartigue]] 15:14, 16 February 2012 (EST)<br />
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