Reviews six books that deal with dinosaurs, sea creatures, physiology, cacti, and cotton. (FL)

Several investigations can be undertaken with live sea anemones. A sea anemone's feeding response, fighting power, color, and symbiotic relationships to other invertebrates (such as a marine hermit crab) can be investigated in the high school classroom. Background information and laboratory procedures are provided. (Author/JN)

Examined student attitudes after a humane education program which included "guest presentations." Results indicate that there was no advantage in having speakers and that programs using the guest speaker model to foster positive attitudes toward animals may tend to be ineffective. (JN)

Reviewed are subjective and objective means of determining how to teach children to think and act humanely. The methodology and findings of a study about empathy resulting from students' role-playing animals is reported. (DC)

Reviews six children's books on animals (kangaroo birds, whales, snails and slugs, rabbits, and spiders) and one on science in general. (MKM)

A test is described in which three psychotropic drugs were evaluated for their effects on pregnant rats. Behavioral changes are given. (SA)

Experiments related to studying innate responsiveness to auditory stimuli in various infant organisms establish that animals have innate perceptual knowledge. (SA)

Three experiments, employing conditioned suppression in rats, examined the extent to which pretraining on one element of a compound stimulus blocked conditioning to the other element when some feature of the reinforcer was changed on compound trials. (Editor)

The research reported here was directed at evaluating whether or not the effectiveness of a Pavlovian unconditioned stimulus (US) in promoting associative learning is reduced if the US is shortly preceded by another occurrence of the same US. (Author)

Stimulus analyzer theory as proposed by Sutherland and Mackintosh (1971) makes the unique prediction that the first-experienced reinforcement schedule will influence resistance to extinction more than subsequent schedules. Results presently reported of runaway acquisition and extinction indicate the opposite: C-P consistently produce substantially…

Recent data indicate that the form of the conditioned response (CR) may often be substantially influenced by the characteristics of the conditioned stimulus (CS) as well as by those of the unconditioned stimulus (US). Here five experiments examine the influence of CS characteristics on the form of the Pavlovian CR anticipatory to a food US in…

Suggests some ideas for introducing students to zoos--their learning advantages, the backgrounds of their animals, and their maintenance--including five learning activities. (RK)

Examines the effects of cage size on stereotyped and normal locomotion and on other abnormal behaviors in singly caged animals, whether observed abnormal behaviors tend to co-occur, and if the development of an abnormal behavior repertoire leads to reduction in the number of normal behavior categories. (Author/RK)

Describes five courses involved in the intensive training that dogs and their handlers go through in the Military Dog Studies Branch at Lackland Air Force Base (San Antonio, Texas) in preparation for duties in law enforcement. (HD)

Presents three experiments that explore whether inescapable shock of long duration and moderate intensity (LoShk) produces an avoidance-escape deficit (called an interference effect) by causing animals to learn to respond less actively or by causing them to learn to be "helpless". (Editor)