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Agricola
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although AGRICOLA does not contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to online full-text documents, with new links being added every day.

AGRIS International
http://www.fao.org/agris/Centre.asp?Content=DB&Menu_1ID=DB&Menu_2ID=DB1&Language=EN
Covers general agriculture, extension, administration and legislation, economics, development, and rural sociology, plant production, forestry, animal production, aquatic sciences and fisheries, machinery and buildings, natural resources, food science, home economics, human nutrition, and pollution. International coverage.

AgZines
http://usain.org/agzines.html
Free online journals and newsletters in agriculture, including Animal Science

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/chla/
Full-text literature of agriculture, animal science, food science, forestry, soil science, etc., dating from the mid-eighteenth century on. From Cornell University.

The Electronic Zoo
http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm
Very accessible site leading to information on beterinary medicine and animal sciences, publications, organizations, and newsgroups. Maintained through Washington University's Division of Comparative Medicine.

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Veterinary Medicine
http://netvet.wustl.edu/vetmed.htm
Huge directory featuring publications, organizations, government resources, academic resources and image library.

General Sites

Academic Resources and Genome Labs
http://www.asrc.agri.missouri.edu/other/genome_research_links.htm
List of university departments and laboratories.

Agriculture Network Information Center
http://www.agnic.org/
AgNIC is a guide and search engine providing quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.

Breeds of Livestocks
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/
Presented by the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University, this site is intended as an educational and informational resource on breeds of livestock throughout the world.

Gene Mapping Information
http://www.marc.usda.gov/genome/genome.html
Genome maps of cattle, swine, and sheep, from the USDA Meat Animal Research Center. See also Other Gene Maps from Iowa State University

NetVet
http://netvet.wustl.edu/vetmed.htm
Extensive listing of resources related to veternary studies created and maintained by of Dr. Ken Boschert, a Veterinarian at Washington University's Division of Comparative Medicine. Very user friendly.

Poultry Science - Virtual Library
http://posc.tamu.edu/library/dother.html
Commercial and academic sites dealing with poultry.

Sheep at Cornell
http://www.sheep.cornell.edu/sheep/index.html
Website for Cornell University's sheep Program. The Cornell Sheep Program evaluates and disseminates information on management, nutrition, health, selection, and marketing strategies for highly productive sheep systems.

Swine at KSU
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_ansi/swine/swine.htm
Articles in PDF format about swine nutrition and profitability from the Kansas State University.

University of Massachusetts - Veternary and Animal Sciencesl
http://www.umass.edu/vasci/
UMASS offers Undergraduate study with options in Animal Sciences, Pre-veterinary, Biotechnology, Animal Industries. Find out about these programs and more at this site.

USDA
http://www.reeusda.gov/
Web site for the United States Department of Agriculture.

Alternative Medicine

The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy
http://www.theavh.org/
Membership information.

Animal Acupuncture Academy
http://www.animal-acupuncture.com/
Official web site of this organization. Course information is provided.

Google Web Directory - Animal Alternative Medicine
http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/Animal/Alternative_Medicine/
Directory of sites describing many types of alternative medicine. Becareful here. While these sites may provide some useful information about organizations, and general overviews of practices, most sites here are NOT scholarly at all.

Homeopathic Treatment of Animals
http://www.homeopathy-ecch.org/veterinary.html
Report includes information on homeopathic treatment of animals in 15 european countries, as well as information on regulations for homeopathic medicinal products intended for veterinary use.

Integrative Treatment of Dogs with Intervertebral Disc Disease
http://neuro.vetmed.ufl.edu/neuro/AltMed/WienerDog/IVD_AltMed.htm
Article on various approaches to alternative medical treatment by R.M. Clemmons, DVM, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences

International Veterinary Acupuncture Society
http://www.ivas.org/main.cfm
Information about this organization, directoryof acupuncture professionals and related links.

Medicinal Plants for Livestock
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/medicinal/
Cornell University website on benefits and toxicities of medicinal plants for livestock.

Natural Holistic Health Care
http://www.naturalholistic.com/nhpc/index.html
This site provides details on holistic care for animals including Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Nutrition, Phone Consultations, Referrals and related information. Site created by Dr Larry Bernstein., a holistic veterinarian.

Physical Rehabilitation Center
http://www.solcompanion.com/html/question.html

Taskforce for Veterinary Science
http://www.vet-task-force.com/
Advisory page with links to some articles.

The Veterinary Acupuncture Page
http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/veter.htm
The "Veterinary Acupuncture Page" , aims to provide educational material on Acupuncture to Veterinarians , who want to learn this therapeutic method.

Animal Behavior

Animal Behavior Interactive
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/fun.html
Learning tool created by Center for integrative study of Animal Behavior at the University of Indiana for teaching young people.

Animal Behavior Lab- Dr. Chris Evans
http://galliform.bhs.mq.edu.au/
Overview of current research on communication and cognitive processes in a wide range of organisms, including birds, lizards, fish and macropod marsupials at Macquarie University, Australia, with detailed material on each project, including sound recordings, video clips, and PDF files. Opportunities for graduate students and postdocs are also listed

Animal Behavior Society
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/index.phtml
News and resources available through this organization are featured here as well as newsletter and grant information.

Animal Behavior Welfare Sites
http://users.erols.com/mandtj/
The mission of this page is provide WWW users with an index of animal behavior and animal welfare & rights sites to make surfing faster and easier.

Animal Cognition and Behavior
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/people.htm
List and contact information to scientists interested in animal cognition.

Zoological Record-Biosis resource list
http://www.biosis.org.uk/zrdocs/zoolinfo/behav.htm
Huge index of sites on animal biology.

Archives of ETHOLOGY
http://segate.sunet.se/archives/ethology.html
Archives of active internet discussion group on animal behavior.

Bird Behavior
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~millerd/bbframes.html
Bird Behavior is an international and interdisciplinary journal that publishes high-quality research on descriptive and experimental analyses of species-typical avian behavior, including the areas of ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, and behavioral neuroscience. A major aim of the journal is to improve communication among all researchers of bird behavior.

Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/
The web site for this University of Indiana's Center which conducts integrative studies across the fields of Biology, Psychology, Neural Science, Anthropology and other disciplines. Included here are links for teaching.

Chimpanzee Cultures
http://chimp.st-and.ac.uk/cultures/database.htm
A database of chimpanzee cultural behaviours.

Dolphin Institute
http://www.dolphin-institute.org/
Dedicated to conservation of and education about dolphins and whales. Research projects include dolphin echolocation, language capabilities, and memory and humpback whale socialization and migration.

Encyclopedia of Psychology - Animal Behavior and Instinct Links
http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Animal_Behavior-Instincts/
Numerous links.

Fauna Communications Institute
http://animalvoice.com/
Institute researches bioacoustics and animal communication, especially of endangered species.

Feral Cats
http://members.aol.com/catsferal/
Information on a study of feral cats in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard (UK), conducted as part of study for PhD by Jane Dards in the 1970s. The study covered population ecology and social behaviour.

First European Conference on Behavioural Biology
http://www.behaviour2002.de/
The European Societies for Behavioural Biology present a joint conference in Muenster in 2002

Honey Bee Research at the University of Illinois
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/
Research in Gene E. Robinson's lab studying the mechanisms of social behavior in honey bees.

Humans and Animals
http://www.swabe.org/
Humans and Other Animals is a web site designed for all those interested in the human-animal relationship. This site provides academic researchers, students and people who deal with animals in their everyday lives, both professionally or as owners, with information on and links to a wide range of anthrozoological resource.

ICEB Lab
http://boyden215.ucr.edu/default.htm
Research interests of Ring T. Cardé's Insect Chemical Ecology and Behavior Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, including evolution of insect mating signals, mating disruption, insect orientation to chemical signals, and computer simulations

Ontologies for Ethology
http://www.mesquiteproject.org/ontology/
Peter E. Midford's research in coding animal behavior descriptions, particularly ethograms using ontology and knowledge represention techniques.

Organzation of Biological Field Stations
http://www.obfs.org/
This organization is concerned with field facilities for biological research and education, primarily in North America and Central America. This site provides links to OBFS member stations. Individual stations include descriptions of courses offered, summer internships, teacher education, etc.

Primate Behavior
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/behavior.html
Excellent resource with many links maintained by the University of Wisconsin Primate Resource Center. Scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects including social behavior, feeding, predation and learning.

Works of Charles Darwin
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/
Complete works online of Darwin.