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Novel Applications Of Multivariate Methods For Exploring Personality In African Elephants, Shilo Kimberly Felton Dec 2013

Novel Applications Of Multivariate Methods For Exploring Personality In African Elephants, Shilo Kimberly Felton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Investigators have shown that elephants exhibit consistent individual differences in behavior by rating elephants using personality adjectives. These adjectives, however, are not based on pre-defined measurements of the behaviors performed. Instead, they are based on the observers’ interpretations of an animal’s behavioral patterns, therefore making them subject to observer bias. Furthermore, elephants have a capacity for learning; thus, they may alter their behavioral patterns over time. This behavioral plasticity in itself might be a way of measuring consistent behavioral differences among individuals. With this in mind, I approached elephant personality as a multivariate problem. I used behavioral observations collected from …


Landscape Genetics Of The Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma Opacum) At Mammoth Cave National Park, James Kyle Martin Dec 2013

Landscape Genetics Of The Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma Opacum) At Mammoth Cave National Park, James Kyle Martin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Habitat connectivity is important to maintain in order to prevent loss of genetic diversity, reduce inbreeding depression, and decrease extinction risk in threatened or endangered species. Here I present a landscape genetics study on marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) in highly connected forested habitat at Mammoth Cave National Park. This investigation of gene flow among ponds within a mostly continuous landscape provides data that can be compared with patterns observed in more fragmented landscapes. These comparisons can provide a means of investigating the separate effects of structural and functional habitat connectivity on amphibian genetic population structure. Structural connectivity refers to the …


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections Nov 2013

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections Aug 2013

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 3), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.


Holder, Earl, 1909-2005 (Sc 1026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2013

Holder, Earl, 1909-2005 (Sc 1026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1026. Transcription of a 1985 interview by Ray Buckberry with Earl Holder regarding the development of the dairy business in Warren County, Kentucky from 1926 to 1973.


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections May 2013

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 2), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections Feb 2013

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 89, No. 1), Kentucky Library Research Collections

Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.


Department Of Agriculture 2013 Newsletter, Department Of Agriculture And Food Science Jan 2013

Department Of Agriculture 2013 Newsletter, Department Of Agriculture And Food Science

Agriculture Department Publications

No abstract provided.