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. 2012 May 3;13(1):86-8.
doi: 10.1128/jmbe.v13i1.382. Print 2012.

Teaching with the macaulay library: an online archive of animal behavior recordings

Ileana Betancourt  1 , Colleen M McLinn
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Teaching with the macaulay library: an online archive of animal behavior recordings

Ileana Betancourt et al. J Microbiol Biol Educ. .
No abstract available

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
The front page of the Macaulay Library after pressing the “+” button for advanced search options. As well as facilitating searches by location, age, sex, or behavior, advanced search allows the user to find three specific types of recordings: 1) Environmental (ambient soundscapes or scenic vistas); 2) Effects (e.g., feet crunching snow, thunder); and 3) People (including a large number of archived scientist interviews from the joint NPR and National Geographic program Radio Expeditions).
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Ithaca College students use the Macaulay Library to design their own investigations on variation in animal sounds as part of an Animal Behavior lab section. The “at-a-glance” guide to Raven Viewer pictured can be found on the Online Research in Biology website (http://birds.cornell.edu/orb). Instructors may wish to ask the students to bring headphones or earbuds, and may want to provide alcohol wipes or splitters for sharing headphones.
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