| 1 |
Introduction. Organization, Readings, Projects. Approaches to the Study of Animals and Their Behavior. |
| 2 |
Classics; Key Concepts in Ethology. |
| 3 |
Key Concepts in Sociobiology. |
| 4 |
Key Concepts in Learning. |
| 5 |
Habitat Selection. Nest Site Selection; Territoriality; Dispersal; Migration. |
| 6 |
Feeding. Foraging or Stalking; Prey Capture; Storage/Hoarding; Consummation. Tool Use. Cooperation among Conspecifics. |
| 7 |
Antipredator Behavior. Detection; Tricking the Predator; Defenses -- Individual, Social; Other Adaptations. |
| 8 |
Sexuality. Dimorphisms in Body and Behavior; Social Organization, Dominance Structures; Evolution of Sexual Signals, Emancipation from Original Uses. |
| 9 |
Mating and Reproduction. Pair Bonding Varieties and Advantages; Brood Tending and Its Evolution; Similarities of Emancipated Actions Across Widely Different Species. |
| 10 |
Maintenance Functions (Other than Feeding and Predator Avoidance). Elimination; Temperature Regulation; Grooming, Cleaning of Body and Nest, and Evolution/Emancipation of these Actions for Social Uses; Reactions to Illness and Injury; Sleeping and Activity Cycles; Nesting re Other Functions, Adaptations. |
| 11 |
Flies and Other Insects. |
| 12 |
Rodents and Lagomorphs. Social vs. Solitary; Specialized vs. Generalized/Non-specialized. |
| 13 |
Cats and Other Large Predators; Ferrets. |
| 14 |
Vegetarian Foragers: Ungulates; Most Cetaceans. |
| 15 |
Primates: Monkeys. |
| 16 |
Primates: Apes. |
| 17 |
Human Ethology. |
| 18 |
Cognitive Ethology/Comparative Cognition. |
| 19 |
Wild Animals in Captivity. Animals in Cages re Natural Adaptations, cf. Humans in Crowded Conditions. Animal Rights. Religious Views of Animals. Conservation Efforts that Succeed or Go Awry. |
| 20 |
Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology. Behavioral Pathologies in Laboratory and in the Wild. |
| 21 |
Project Reports. |
