Learn how animals mate, communicate, feed and prey by attending the 12th International Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) Congress, hosted by the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Aug. 10-14, at Cornell.

Cornell students, faculty and staff can attend at a discounted rate of $50.

The congress -- which will be the largest meeting of the ISBE ever held -- features a wide variety of human and animal behavior talks, including plenary sessions on sexual selection and mating systems; the behavioral ecology of fertility decline in humans; kinship, cooperation and population structure in social birds; spider sociality; and the amazing sensory ecology of moles and shrews.

The special Cornell rate, however, will not give participants access to the poster sessions, coffee breaks or luncheons.

Register by Aug. 1 at the ISBE Web site, http://www.isbe2008cornell.org/program_talk.php.