This seems to be a recurrent theme. Could this be a WOS presentation?

Barry Levine
Seattle
levineb at belnet.bellevue.k12.wa.us

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, R. Robinette wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 10:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
> From: James Ha <jcha at u.washington.edu>
> To: R. Robinette <robinet at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Northwestern Crow question (fwd)
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> To all Tweeters,
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> We've mentioned some of this work before, but there are always new folks
> jumping on board...
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> We (my grad student, Renee Robinette, and I) are in the midst of a large
> study of the "Northwestern Crow," including:
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> 1) behavioral ecology and social interactions ("producing and
> scrounging") during beach foraging,
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> 2) development of DNA markers for this population (to be used both for
> establishment of kinship relationships in our marked population at
> Meadowdale Park in Snohomish Co. and for quantification of geographic
> differences, tho' this is not our top priority right now),
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> 3) study of the geographic differences in vocalizations (in collaboration
> with my dad, Dr. Samuel Ha, a retired researcher and college faculty
> member from back East)
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> We are making active progress in all three areas (see my WWW page at
> weber.u.washington.edu/~jcha for papers and scientific presentations): to
> respond to the immediate question about vocalizations, we presented data
> at a recent Animal Behavior Society meeting that showed very distinct
> differences in vocalization characteristics between populations on the UW
> campus and in Nanaimo, BC, with intermediate vocalizations recorded at S.
> Sequim State Park on the Olympic Peninsula and on San Juan I. We are
> currently preparing this work for publication.
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> If anyone would like more info, or has specific questions, please feel
> free to contact me at: jcha at u.washington.edu, or contact my grad student,
> Renee at: robinet at u.washington.edu. Also, I'd be happy to present some of
> our work (much of it is still in progress!) in an appropriate forum, if
> there's interest.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> James C. Ha
> Research Assistant Professor
> Psychology / Regional Primate Center
> University of Washington
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> On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, R. Robinette wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Darrel K. Whipple <dwhipple at columbia-center.org>
> > To: hunnhome at accessone.com
> > Cc: tweeters at u..washington.edu
> > Subject: Re: Northwestern Crow question
> >
> > Dear Tweeters,
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> > I'm in over my head here, but does analysis of DNA samples from purported
> > populations of Northwestern and of American crows show enough similarity to
> > warrant lumping, or enough difference to warrant splitting? Or does this
> > just move the same debate to another level? Like, who's to say how much is
> > enough difference to qualify a population as a separate species?
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> > Darrel Whipple
> > Rainier, Oregon
> > dwhipple at columbia-center.org
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