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Animal behavior research is getting better at keeping observer bias from sneaking in – but there’s still room to improve

Animal behavior research relies on careful observation of animals. Researchers might spend months in a jungle habitat watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They might track the rates of ...
Newsweek

Homosexual Behavior More Common in Animals Than Thought

Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of ...
Nature

How ‘animal methods bias’ is affecting research careers

While Catharine Krebs was working in a human-genetics laboratory during her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, there was a line that she got used to seeing at the end of papers: “These ...
The Conversation

Animal behavior research is getting better at keeping observer bias from sneaking in – but there’s still room to improve

Todd M. Freeberg does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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Animal behavior research is getting better at keeping observer bias from sneaking in – but there’s still room to improve

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Todd M. Freeberg, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) Animal behavior research ...