Animal Behavior

Week Date Lecture Topic Reading Lab Activity 1 23-Jan Principles of Animal Behavior Ch 1 25-Jan Paper Discussion: Testing Alternative Hypotheses primary literature 2 28-Jan Evolution & Heritability of Behavior Ch 2 30-Jan Evolution & Heritability of Behavior Ch 2 1-Feb Paper Discussion: Heritability of behavior primary literature 3 4-Feb Proximate Factors Ch 3 + Ch 4 6-Feb Behavioral Endocrinology Ch 3 & Vandenberg (2003) 8-Feb Paper Discussion: Hormones and Behavior primary literature 4 11-Feb Learning Ch 5 + Ch 6 (can omit p133-141) 13-Feb Learning Bird Song Catchpole & Slater Ch 3 (focus on 3.2 & 3.3) 15-Feb Neurobiology of Bird Song Catchpole & Slater Ch 2 (focus on 2.4) 5 18-Feb Animal Communication Ch 13 20-Feb EXAM REVIEW --22-Feb Sexual Selection Ch 7 6 25-Feb Sexual Selection Ch 7 27-Feb Sexual Selection Ch 7 + page 422 1-Mar Paper Discussion: Mate Choice Models primary literature 7 4-Mar Sexual Selection Ch 7 6-Mar Sexual Selection Ch 7 8-Mar Paper Discussion: Signal Honesty primary literature 8 11-Mar Sexual Selection Ch 7 13-Mar Mating Systems Ch 8 15-Mar Paper Discussion: Mating Systems primary literature 9 18-22 Mar 10 25-Mar Mating Systems Ch 8 27-Mar EXAM REVIEW --29-Mar Aggression Ch 15 11 1-Apr Aggression Ch 15 3-Apr Aggression Ch 15 5-Apr Paper Discussion: Aggression Models primary literature 12 8-Apr Cooperation Ch 10 10-Apr Cooperation Ch 10 12-Apr Paper Discussion: Cooperation primary literature 13 15-Apr Game Theory practice --17-Apr --Individual Conferences---19-Apr --Poster Prep Session---14 22-Apr Applied Animal Behavior guest lecture --24-Apr Kinship Ch 9 26-Apr Paper Discussion: Kinship primary literature 15 29-Apr Kinship Ch 9 1-May EXAM REVIEW --3-May Behavioral Syndromes Ch 17 + Sih et al. (2004) 16 6-May Monday Lab's Practice Zoo Talk --8-May Wednesday Lab's Practice Zoo Talk ---