As Dan pointed out somewhere, being scientific is to question. Apparently what he may be missing is, what to question. This section of my reply may explain why this type of material is not in peer review, at this time.

Its common sense, if you are going to study something, you should consider what is the best method to reveal what your interested in learning. In the case of behavior, and lets say that behavior is very important in the understanding of any animal species(just for the sake of discussion). Behavior is included in the area of biology called ethology. Ethology[color=red)Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behavior, and is a sub-topic of zoology. The focus of ethology is on animal behavior under natural ...please look this up

The problem is, current and past methods of study accepted in peer review, REQUIRE interference. That is, they require the researcher to penetrate, to breach, to alter behavior in order to study it. Which is totally foreign to the rules of study required in ethology. Peer review requires the violation of the rules to study ethology. look this stuff up folks, basically, ethology outlines three simple approaches of study(to use all three, not one) 1. observation 2. naturalistic observation(isolated tests to reveal areas of behavior) 3. participant observation, that is, the observer becoming part of and not interfering with. The Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey methods. They both completely changed the understanding of animal behavior, and were outcasts at the time. They did was science dictates, QUESTION THE METHODS, and make new methods until the results are accurate. For folks like Dan, who was asking someone to check out a capture relocation study. Its so very odd that people even entertain those type of reports as valid. To relocate an animal, is dismissing that the animal has behavior. Its dimissing that living within a small area(its home range) has influenced the animal in any way. Research this

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