Using a free online citizen-science project to teach observation & quantification of animal behavior

American Biology Teacher

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 437-443

  Voss, Margaret A ^a   Cooper, Caren B ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Ethograms; Observational bias; Structural descriptions of behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77956048711     PISSN: 00027685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/abt.2010.72.7.9     Document Type: Article

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