Animal Behavior

Lecture Notes

There are no lecture notes for the midterm review, Lecture 22 or Lectures 31-35.

LEC #	TOPICS
1	Lecture 1 Notes: Introduction: class requirements, various approaches to animal behavior and its study (PDF)
2	Lecture 2 Notes: Introduction to ethology; three–spined stickleback fish (PDF)
3	Lecture 3 Notes: Introduction to ethology (cont.); field studies of birds; Niko Tinbergen’s questions (PDF - 1.6MB)
4	Lecture 4 Notes: Ethology (cont.); Konrad Lorenz’ Jackdaws (PDF)
5	Lecture 5 Notes: Ethology of geese; fixed action patterns and the CNS (PDF)
6	Lecture 6 Notes: Fixed action patterns and the CNS (cont.) (PDF)
7	Lecture 7 Notes: Input and output sides of innate behavior; motivation (PDF)
8	Lecture 8 Notes: Innate behavior and motivation (cont.); Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology: The “fixed action pattern” (PDF)
9–11	Lecture 9 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology (PDF) Lecture 10 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology (PDF) Lecture 11 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology (PDF)
12–13	Lecture 12 Notes: Evolution; development & plasticity of behavior (PDF) Lecture 13 Notes: Evolution; development & plasticity of behavior (PDF)
14–15	Lecture 14 Notes: Communication; Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert (PDF - 1.1MB) Lecture 15 Notes: Communication; Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert (PDF - 1.1MB)
16	Lecture 16 Notes: Foraging; anti-predation behavior (PDF - 2.2MB)
17	Lecture 17 Notes: Anti-predation behavior (PDF - 1.2MB)
	Midterm Review
18	Lecture 18 Notes: Mating & reproduction (PDF - 1.4MB)
19	Lecture 19 Notes: Introduction to sociobiology (PDF)
20	Lecture 20 Notes: Sociobiology subject matter (PDF) Lecture 20 Supplement: Wilson path analysis (PDF)
21	Lecture 21 Notes: Genetic influences on social behavior (PDF)
22	Video: Domestic cat
23	Lecture 23 Notes: Domestic cat; scientific method in sociobiology (PDF - 1.4MB)
24	Lecture 24 Notes: Discoveries of sociobiology (PDF - 1.1MB)
25	Lecture 25 Notes: Discoveries of sociobiology (cont.) (PDF) Lecture 25 Supplement: E. O. Wilson’s Sociobiology (PDF)
26	Lecture 26 Notes: Critique of cultural determinism (PDF)
27	Lecture 27 Notes: Sociobiology and culture; Practical issues and sociobiology (PDF - 1.1MB)
28	Lecture 28 Notes: “The triumph of sociobiology”; Konrad Lorenz on learning (PDF)
29	Lecture 29 Notes: Konrad Lorenz on learning (cont.) (PDF)
30	Lecture 30 Notes: Konrad Lorenz on learning (cont.); Video: The Great Apes (PDF)
31	Video: The Great Apes (cont.)
32–35	Student report presentations