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	WHOI : Media Relations: Obituary : Donald R. Griffin
		Donald Redfield Griffin was elected a Member of the Corporation in 1964 and an Honorary Member of the Corporation in 1986.
		Griffin spent his final years in Lexington, MA working at Harvard University's Concord Field Station, where he was using microphones to study the noises beavers made in their lodges.
		Donald Griffin was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Animal Behavior Society and the American Physiological Society.
	www.whoi.edu /mr/obit.do?id=734 (515 words)

	chaptersix
		Griffin notes that a variety of experiments have shown "that laboratory animals can learn relatively abstract rules, such as oddity or the difference between a regular and an irregular pattern." He notes further that pigeons don't do very well at these odd-one-out problems, but they nevertheless do better than cats and raccoons.
		Griffin thinks that this result "suggests recognition of a variety of pigeons as something equivalent to "one of us," although it has not been demonstrated that pigeons can learn more easily to recognize pictures of pigeons than other animals such as dogs or hawks.
		Griffin notes that Capaldi and Miller, along with Davis, Mackenzie and Morrison, have recently "demonstrated that rats are capable of a simple form of discriminating what is sometimes called "numerosity" to distinguish it from the sort of counting by mentally assigning successive numbers as we usually do.
	www.pitt.edu /~gmas/1800/chaptersix.htm (2387 words)

	Donald R. Griffin, August 3, 1915–November 7, 2003 \| By Charles G. Gross \| Biographical Memoirs
		Donald R. (Redfield) Griffin was born in Southampton, New York, but spent his early childhood in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in a rural area near Scarsdale, New York.
		Griffin’s discovery of a “new sense” in bats probably influenced, at least in part, the discovery of other “new animal senses” such as infrared vision in snakes, infrasonic signals in elephants, and orientation and discrimination in electric fish.
		Among Griffin’s collaborators and students at the institute were Roger Payne, discoverer of acoustic hunting by owls and of whale songs and now the leading advocate of whale conservation; Jim Gould, who extended von Frisch’s bee studies; and Carol Ristau, pioneer in the study of intentionality in the piping plover.
	www.nap.edu /html/biomems/dgriffin.html (3998 words)

	© The American Physiological Society - Alan C. Burton
		Griffin provides examples of foraging behavior, predatory tactics, artifact construction, tool use, and concludes that it is simply impossible to explain what animals do without assuming that they are conscious of their own thoughts.
		Griffin suspected that the many experiments in which birds were taken from nests and then released, had a fallacy in the design.
		Griffin believed that the fallacy here was that during this linear transportation the birds might plan or remember a map of the direction in which they were taken.
	www.the-aps.org /membership/obituaries/donald_griffin.htm (1822 words)

	kitsapsun.com: Local (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Donald Griffin is led into the Kitsap County courtroom by an officer for his arraignment.
		Donald J. Griffin entered a plea of innocent to the charge, Olsen declined his attorney's request for a reduction of the $500,000 bail, and it was over for the day.
		Griffin's wife is at another home they own in Mexico, and her daughter said she'd been unable to reach her to tell her about the step-grandfather's arrest.
	www.thesunlink.com /bsun/local/article/0,2403,BSUN_19088_3865290,00.html (479 words)

	Symposium in honor of Donald Griffin: Organized by: Marc Bekoff with Colin Allen, Gordon Burghardt, and Jim Gould ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Griffin believed that there is abundant behavioral evidence suggesting animal consciousness, but critics have not agreed that the evidence he presented meets the requirements of a scientific demonstration.
		Griffin’s view of animal behavior will be examined in this paper with regard to chimpanzee sign language research generated over the past 40 years and the Cartesian reactions to its empirical results.
		Abstract: Donald Griffin's research in cognitive ethology has generated a great deal of interest by those who support this sort of research and by those who think it's essentially a waste of time to ponder questions about animal thinking and animal consciousness.
	www.animalbehavior.org /Conference/Snowbird05/SciProg/griffin_contributers.html (1677 words)

	Donald Griffin Tribute - Animal Sentience
		Donald Griffin, who was considered the founder of the modern field involving the study of animal thinking and consciousness died on November 14th in Lexington, Mass.
		In 1978 Dr. Griffin broke a scientific taboo by suggesting that animals might have the capacity to think and reason, and that scientists should study these mental processes.
		Griffin was born in Southampton, N.Y., in 1915.
	www.animalsentience.com /features/donald_griffin.htm (692 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Donald Griffin; zoologist argued animals have thinking abilities
		Donald R. Griffin, who determined how bats navigate in the dark and who became a leading proponent of the controversial notion that some animals share humans' ability to reason, died Nov. 7 at his home in Lexington.
		Griffin called the process "echolocation," a term now commonly used by scientists, and his discovery was considered a major breakthrough not only in zoology but also in the development of radar and sonar systems.
		Although Dr. Griffin began his research at Harvard and returned to the university's Concord Field Station toward the end of his career, much of his research was done at Rockefeller University.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/11/17/donald_griffin_zoologist_argued_animals_have_thinking_abilities (789 words)

	92074 -- Griffin v. Gilchrist -- Bukaty -- Kansas Court of Appeals
		The court found that Griffin had not established that the respondents were the proper parties to this habeas corpus action because the respondents were not his custodians.
		Griffin urges that the body of his petition clearly reveals that he is in the custody of the Kansas Secretary of Corrections (SOC) at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
		Had the situation here been such that it was unclear from the petition who had custody of Griffin and it was clear the persons or agencies named in the petition did not, summary dismissal may have been appropriate.
	www.kscourts.org /kscases/ctapp/2004/20041029/92074.htm (1198 words)

	Griffin, Donald Redfield -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The griffin was a favourite decorative motif in the ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lands.
		U.S. physicist Donald Arthur Glaser was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
		He won the 1960 Nobel prize in physics for his invention of the bubble chamber (in 1952), which traced the movement of high-energy atomic particles and was used to observe the behavior of subatomic particles.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9397989?tocId=9397989 (596 words)

	Dr. Donald Griffin Plastic Surgeon Nashville Tennessee
		Griffin continues to stay abreast of the latest developments by actively pursuing continuing medical education in cosmetic surgery.
		Griffin has been working with patients who have had massive weight loss (50 to 230 pounds) to improve their appearance.
		Griffin is board certified by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery.
	www.sleepingswan.com /articles/Donald_Griffin.htm (962 words)

	Insurance adjusters head to hurricane areas - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Donald Griffin, a vice president with the insurance association, said safety was a concern because of reports of looting and armed robberies in some of the Gulf Coast cities hit by the hurricane earlier this week.
		Griffin also said it was too early to give updated estimates of the cost of the storm for insurers.
		Griffin said there likely will be "significant uninsured losses," too, but did not give an estimate.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/09/01/insurance_adjusters_head_to_hurricane_areas (649 words)

	Donald W. Griffin Assumes Post of Olin Corporation Chairman
		Griffin succeeds John W. Johnstone, Jr., who retired as chairman and remains a member of Olin's board and chairman of its Executive and Finance Committee.
		Griffin served in a variety of Brass Division marketing positions early in his career at Olin, including director of international business development and vice president, marketing.
		Griffin is a director of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the Wildlife Management Institute and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute.
	www.shareholder.com /olin/news/042596g.htm (421 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Leading canon lawyers had pastoral focus - obituaries of Bertram F. Griffin, - Donald ...
		Bertram Griffin, Donald Heintschel and James Provost occurred in a cluster was probably coincidence.
		Donald Heintschel died in Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 22 at the age of 75 after a prolonged cardiac illness.
		Griffin was in Rome during much of the Vatican Council while working on his doctorate at the Lateran University.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_41_36/ai_65862961 (975 words)

	Blog of Death: Donald R. Griffin
		Donald Redfield Griffin, the zoologist who discovered how bats navigate in the dark, died on Nov. 7.
		Griffin received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from Harvard University, and became a full-time college professor.
		Griffin earned the nickname "Batman," after he and his lab partner, Robert Galambos, placed a special microphone in a dark room to prove that bats could "see" in the dark by emitting ultrasonic sounds and then navigating through the air using the echoes as an internal guidance system.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000577.html (499 words)

	Animal Minds:0226308634:Griffin, Donald R.:eCampus.com
		In this riveting book, Donald Griffin, a pioneer in the study of animal behavior, investigates the mystery of the animal mind.
		As in earlier works, Griffin explores the curious taboo among ethologists that has caused scientists for half a century to ignore the possibility that animals have conscious experience.
		Indeed, Griffin argues, animals may one day be able to communicatetheir thoughts directly and explicitly, once we are prepared to listen.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0226308634 (274 words)

	Why We Get Sick three
		The aim is "to reopen the basic question of what life is like, subjectively, to nonhuman animals, and to outline how we can begin to answer this challenging question by analyzing the versatility of animal behavior, especially the communicative signals by which animals sometimes appear to express their thoughts and feelings."
		What significance does Griffin attach to the fact that -- so far as we know -- the basic structure and functioning of neurons and synapses are similar [to the basic structure and functioning of neurons and synapses in humans] in all animals with organized central nervous systems?
		Ruth Millikan occupies an intermediate position with respect to animal thoughts, viz., animals have them but their thoughts are quite different from ours, e.g., unlike us, animals can't combine beliefs to get new beliefs, and they don't distinguish indicative from imperatival illocutionary force in their communications.
	www.pitt.edu /~gmas/1800/whysickthree.htm (1051 words)

	komo news \| Kitsap County Man Accused of Raping His Granddaughter
		Donald Griffin tried to hide his face as he walked into court in Kitsap County on Thursday, but the 63-year-old grandfather cannot hide from the accusations he now faces.
		In official court papers, Griffin tried to claim his granddaughter was the one who barricaded the door at his Kitsap County home with her toy box, and that she locked the door as well.
		Griffin's daughter, the little girl's mother, fell apart as she left the courtroom.
	www.komotv.com /stories/37465.htm (546 words)

	Princeton - News - Donald Worner Griffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Griffin, a member of the Class of 1923, transferred to Princeton in 1920 after spending his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Griffin was born in Lock Haven, Pa., on January 17, 1901.
		Griffin said he was born in the horse and buggy era,'' and often drove across campus in horse-drawn vehicles, which he collected and stored on campus for many years.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/news/96/q1/0205grif.html (797 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chairman Griffin announced Donald Bier would be a voting member for the September 20, 2000 meeting.
		Chairman Griffin said he feels the only way it could be approved is if the school was there first.
		Chairman Griffin suggested the Board send a letter to the City Commission recommending all variances and special exceptions fees are lowered to $100 flat fee.
	www.ci.cocoa-beach.fl.us /government/minutes/baj092000.html (798 words)

	Animal Minds - From Monitor-Data.com Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Griffin, one of the founding fathers of cognitive ethology, summarizes the best scientific evidence that animals have a rich mental life that involves thought, intentionality, and consciousness.
		To his credit, Griffin is not dogmatic; he admits that much scientific work remains before any of the evidence can be considered significant, and he is willing to consider interpretations of the data that reject his own views on animal minds.
		Although Griffin champions an interdisciplinary approach to solving problems of mind, he pays little heed to the many philospohical problems with understanding crucial mental concepts.
	www.monitor-data.com /books/0226308642.html (469 words)

	Billy Griffin - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Born William Griffin on August 15, 1950 in Baltimore, MD, Griffin sang with such groups as Last Dynasty, grooming his flexible tenor before eventually getting his big break.
		Griffin, who bared a slight resemblance to Robinson, was chosen to sing lead with the group.
		Griffin's brother, guitarist Donald Griffin, was added to the group's lineup.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,438582,00.html (359 words)

	Kenan Malik's review of 'Animal Minds' by Donald Griffin and 'The Ape and the Sushi Master' by Frans de Waal
		When 25 years ago Donald Griffin first argued in his Question of Animal Awareness that animals were conscious, thinking beasts he was treated with derision.
		Many animal behaviours, Griffin points out, are difficult to explain unless we assume that the animals are acting with conscious intent.
		Griffin, I fear, is conflating the method we use to understand animal behaviour with the explanation for that behaviour.
	www.kenanmalik.com /reviews/de_waal_ape.html (925 words)

	Olin: Letter from CEO
		A congratulatory letter from Olin CEO Don Griffin to all Olin Charleston (Tenn.) employees regarding their latest Goal is Zero triumph -- one year without a lost workday case.
		I was very proud to learn that on August 13, 1999 you achieved one year without a lost workday case due to an injury or illness.
		A congratulatory letter from Olin CEO Don Griffin to the remediation team at Olin's former Blockson Works phosphates plant in Joliet, Illinois, for achieving some remarkable safety milestones under The Goal is Zero.
	www.olin.com /environment/ceoletter.asp (1923 words)

	Donald Griffin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Donald Griffin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Donald Redfield Griffin (August 3, 1915 - November 7, 2003) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American professor of (The branch of biology that studies animals) zoology at various universities who did seminal research in (additional info and facts about animal behavior) animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory biophysics.
		In 1938 he began studying the navigational method of bats, which he named (Determining the location of something by measuring the time it takes for an echo to return from it) echolocation in 1944.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Do/Donald_Griffin.htm (147 words)

	Nashville, Tennessee, TN - Plastic Surgeons for Liposuction - Donald W. Griffin, M.D.
		Griffin entered private practice in Nashville in 1997, and is the sole owner of the Nashville Cosmetic Surgery Center.
		Griffin is board certified in both Plastic Surgery and General Surgery.
		Griffin lives in Forest Hills with his lovely wife Susan, and his two children, Conner and Carly Morgan.
	liposite.com /surgeons/griffindonald (612 words)

	ObesityHelp Professional Profile
		Griffin is the most compasionate, committed surgeon I have ever worked with.
		Griffin gave me a life that is actually worth living.
		From the moment I met Dr. Griffin and his nurse, Linda Barry, I felt at ease and was always given information that I needed to make appropriate choices for my surgery.
	www.obesityhelp.com /morbidobesity/professionals/proProfile.php?N=9246 (657 words)

	Sarabande In Education
		(15:18) [Brian Griffin] If you mean do I think of one of the characters as myself, the answer is no. Instead, I \"identify\" with all of my characters (or try to) in the sense of somehow trying to understand them as approximations of real human beings.
		(15:38) [Donald] Being a Christian myself, I noticed that your Baptist upbringing was noted in the back of the book and that you made some reference to the church in the Sanctuary.
		(15:44) [Brian Griffin] Tammy: The story \"Sanctuary\" is based on something that actually happened to me. I never set out to write \"the grotesque.\" I simply tried to capture some of the craziness of those people in that time.
	www.sarabandebooks.org /sie/chatarchive/1002050761698 (1883 words)

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