Green Chimneys, a residential center for emotionally disturbed and learning disabled children in New York, uses farm animals in the treatment program. Children learn horseback riding, animal husbandry, gardening, and farming on a working farm. The program seeks to involve the community and provide training to volunteers, interns, and learning…

This paper, third in a series of five reports on results of a national study of American attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors toward wildlife and natural habitats, focuses on the American public's attitudes, perceptions, and understanding of animals. Data were derived from questionnaires administered to 3,107 randomly selected Americans (18 years…

The present article discusses the possibility that behavioral recovery following brain damage is not dependent on the functional reorganization of neural tissue but is rather the result of the continued normal operation of spared neural mechanisms. (Editor)

Rat received conditioning based upon a food unconditioned stimulus and then received manipulations designed to reduce the value of that food. The effects of these manipulations were assessed during extinction tests of the conditioned stimuli. (Editor/RK)

Three experiments are reported in which rats first received 50 escapable or inescapable signaled-shock trials. The results of the experiments are discussed in terms of a learned active-inactive predisposition to respond. (Editor/RK)

This article demonstrated that equations derived from Herrnstein's matching law can make quantitative predictions for many of the effects David Premack has studied on the relative nature of reinforcement. (Author/RK)

Man's association with animals throughout the history of the United States is emphasized in these social studies activities. (JH)

Most science students readily understand that following fertilization, a single-celled egg must undergo multiple rounds of cell division to become a multicellular organism. This transformation is so universal among animal embryos that developmental biologists refer to the process with a single term: ''gastrulation.'' During gastrulation, many if…

Progress is now being made toward ascertaining the specific effects of rearing conditions on brain and behavior, the properties of the environment that contribute to these effects, and the developmental periods in which brain tissue is most sensitive to environmental modification. (Author/RH)

A Klamath Indian story about why the rabbit is timid. (AH)

This document provides information that a potential insecticide applicator can utilize to safely and effectively control insects and related pests of livestock. The first section of the manual discusses the general methods of preparation and application of insecticides. The second section concerns itself with the recognition of insect problems,…

This study provided added support for the generalization that the neural processes associated with the startle reflex are engaged by small changes in the auditory environment. They also pointed to a measure of separation between the processes responsible for inhibition and those responsible for latency shift. (Editor/RK)

Two experiments employing 180 rabbits and involving tone conditioned stimuli (CSs) and intraoral water unconditioned stimuli (UCSs) investigated pseudoconditioning of jaw movement. (Editor)