Current Projects

1. The physiology or fattening during migration in passerine birds.
2. The use of hypothermia in migrating passerines and in birds journal.
3. Energy and water balance in migratory birds.
4. The role of ethanol in the nutritional and sensory physiology of frugivores.
5. Cuticle abrasion in desert beetles.

Recent Publications

Palgi, N. H. Taleisnik and B. Pinshow. Elimination of oxalate by fat sand rats (Psammomys obesus): wild and laboratory-bred animals compared. 26-11-07 Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. In press.

Mazeh, S. C. Korine, B. Pinshow and R. Dudley. The influence of ethanol on feeding in the frugivorous Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus xanthopygos). Behavioural Processes. In press.

St. Juliana, J. R., B. M. Fenton, C. Korine, B.Pinshow, M Wojciechowski and V. Kravchenko. A field assessment of the defensive responses of moths to an auditory stimulus. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. In press.

Hambly, C., S. Markman, L. Roxburgh and B. Pinshow. (2007) Seasonal sex–specific energy expenditure in breeding and non-breeding Palestine sunbirds (Nectarinia osea). Journal of Avian Biology. 38: 190-197.

Tracy, C.R, T. J. McWhorter, C. Korine, M. S. Wojciechowski, B. Pinshow and W. H. Karasov. (2007) Absorption of sugars in the Egyptian fruit bat (I): A paradox explained. Journal of Experimental Biology 210:1726-1734.

Ph.D. Duke University, 1976