Audio Lectures

Lec1: Introduction to animal behavior and how it is studied

Lec2: Introduction to ethology

Lec4: Ethology and Konrad Lorenz' Jackdaws

Lec6: Fixed action patterns and central nervous system

Lec8: Innate behaviors, motivation and fundamentals of ethology

Lec9: Lorenz on fundamental ethology, part 1

Lec10: Lorenz on fundamental ethology, part 2

Lec11: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology, part 3

Lec12: Evolution and the development and plasticity of behavior, part 1

Lec13: Evolution and the development and plasticity of behavior, part 2

Lec14: Communication and Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert, part 1

Lec15: Communication and Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert, part 2

Lec16: Foraging behaviors

Lec17: Anti-predator behavior

Lec18: Mating and reproduction

Lec20: Sociobiology

Lec21: Genetic influences on social behavior

Lec23: Sociobiology, mating behaviors and scientific method

Lec24: Discoveries of sociobiology

Lec25: Discoveries of sociobiology (cont.)

Lec26: Critique of cultural determinism

Lec27: Sociobiology and culture; Practical issues and sociobiology

Lec28: Triumph of sociobiology and learning

Lec29: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 2

Lec30: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 3