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Burghardt honored by Animal Behavior Society

August 9, 2024 by ldutton

Animal behavior captivated Gordon Burghardt as a boy, and over more than half a century at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, his interdisciplinary research advanced ethology in areas including animal play, social behavior, communication, reptile behavior, enrichment, and animal cognitive abilities.

The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) recognized his outstanding lifetime achievement by awarding Burghardt the 2024 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award during its annual meeting in late June.

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Gordon Burghardt Interviewed for Atlantic Article

June 7, 2024 by Logan Judy

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Fruit flies may enjoy taking carousels for a spin

August 23, 2023 by ldutton

EEB Alumni Distinguished Service professor Dr. Gordon Burghardt comments on the first documented example of locomotor play in an invertebrate. Read the article here:  https://www.science.org/content/article/fruit-flies-may-enjoy-taking-carousels-spin 

 

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Press for Burghardt: Snakes that recognize whether they are venomous

October 11, 2017 by armsworth

Professor Gordon Burghardt has a new article out in Journal of Comparative Psychology with Akira Mori called, “Do tiger keelback snakes (Rhabdophis tigrinus) recognize how toxic they are?” (DOI: 10.1037/com0000075)

The findings of the article have been picked up by places like New Scientist. Tiger keelback snakes do not make their own venom; they store and use toxins from the food they eat.  Individuals that have been fed a diet of toxic toads display more aggressive behavior when threatened, unlike their non-toxic brethren, who typically slither away.  This raises the question of how the snakes know whether they are toxic or not.

 

Filed Under: Burghardt, MAIN, popular media Tagged With: behavior, Burghardt, snakes, toxic, venom

Burghardt in the News

June 25, 2017 by armsworth

Professor Gordon Burghardt appears in the June 23 Knoxville News-Sentinel, in an article by Philip Kronk called, “Fear of snakes may date to evolution in Africa.”

Burghardt also appears on The Evolution Institute website, in a conversation with Kevin Laland, author of “Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind.”  They discuss adaptive trends and parallel evolution generated by niche construction.  Associate Professor Joe Bailey’s research gets mentioned, too!

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Discover Magazine Interviews Burghardt, Pruitt- UPDATE

May 8, 2017 by armsworth

The June 2017 issue of Discover Magazine has an article on play behavior in non-mammalian animals.  Called “The Play’s the Thing,” it features interviews with Professor Gordon Burghardt and alumnus Jonathan Pruit (PhD 2010, Riechert Lab, now on the faculty at UC-Santa Barbara). The article references a paper published in 2012 that was written by Burghardt, Pruitt, and Riechert.

The article is now available online. Tennessee Today also has a story about the article

Filed Under: alumni, Burghardt, MAIN, popular media, Riechert Tagged With: behavior, Burghardt, Discover, Pruitt, Riechert

Summer Undergraduate Research Internships for EEB

March 20, 2017 by armsworth

Four undergraduate students affiliated with EEB received 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Internships. The Office of Research awards these each year for undergraduates to work in a faculty mentor’s lab for pay. The award is worth $2500:

  • Chandler Brown (mentor, Williams);
  • Aaron Free (mentor, Burghardt);
  • Terrell Carter (mentor, Schweitzer);
  • Han Noh (mentor, Schweitzer).

Congratulations to you all!

Filed Under: award, Burghardt, intern, MAIN, Schweitzer, Undergrad News, undergraduate, Williams Tagged With: Brown, Burghardt, Carter, Free, internship, Noh, Research, Schweitzer, Undergraduate, Williams

Burghardt and Fefferman on NPR

March 7, 2017 by armsworth

EEB’s Gordon Burghardt and Nina Fefferman were featured on WUOT’s Dialogue program (NPR 91.9 FM) on Wednesday March 1.  You can listen to the podcast, entitled “Donald Trump And The Future Of Science” at http://wuot.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/dialogue-donald-trump-and-future-science#stream/0

NPR’s summarizes the show here:

“Donald Trump’s public comments about science and his choices to run the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency have given a lot of scientists cause for concern.  How will the President’s attitudes and opinions about science affect funding?  How will research on politically-charged issues like climate change be affected?  On this episode of Dialogue, we’ll examine the next four years from a scientists’ perspective. Panelists include Dr. Gordon Burghardt and Dr. Nina Fefferman of the University of Tennessee and Dr. Gretchen Goldman from the Union of Concerned Scientists.”

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Bush Authors Scientific American Blog Post

January 11, 2017 by armsworth

Graduate student Jordan Bush (Simberloff lab) wrote a guest blog post for “Not Bad Science” on the Scientific American blog network.  It features some of Gordon Burghardt’s studies on play behavior and some of Todd Pierson’s photography.

Read the post, titled “Looking Past the Scales: The Truth about Reptilian Behavior,” here.

Filed Under: Burghardt, graduate, MAIN, Simberloff Tagged With: behavior, blog, Jordan Bush, reptile, Scientific American, Simberloff Lab, Todd Pierson

Burghardt in Observer Cover Story

November 2, 2016 by armsworth

Prof. Gordon Burghardt’s research is highlighted in the cover story of the November 2016 issue of the Association for Psychological Science’s journal, Observer.  The title of his subsection is “Can Turtles Play?”  Read the article here.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/2016/nov-16/science-on-the-wild-side.html

 

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