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Introduction. Organization, Readings, Projects. Approaches to the Study of Animals and Their Behavior. |
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Classics; Key Concepts in Ethology. |
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Key Concepts in Sociobiology. |
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Key Concepts in Learning. |
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Habitat Selection. Nest Site Selection; Territoriality; Dispersal; Migration. |
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Feeding. Foraging or Stalking; Prey Capture; Storage/Hoarding; Consummation. Tool Use. Cooperation among Conspecifics. |
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Antipredator Behavior. Detection; Tricking the Predator; Defenses -- Individual, Social; Other Adaptations. |
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Sexuality. Dimorphisms in Body and Behavior; Social Organization, Dominance Structures; Evolution of Sexual Signals, Emancipation from Original Uses. |
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Mating and Reproduction. Pair Bonding Varieties and Advantages; Brood Tending and Its Evolution; Similarities of Emancipated Actions Across Widely Different Species. |
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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. |
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Flies and Other Insects. |
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Rodents and Lagomorphs. Social vs. Solitary; Specialized vs. Generalized/Non-specialized. |
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Cats and Other Large Predators; Ferrets. |
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Vegetarian Foragers: Ungulates; Most Cetaceans. |
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Primates: Monkeys. |
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Primates: Apes. |
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Human Ethology. |
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Cognitive Ethology/Comparative Cognition. |
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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. |
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Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology. Behavioral Pathologies in Laboratory and in the Wild. |
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Project Reports. |
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