Animal Behavior

Audio Lectures

The recording quality of this audio is the best available given the source.  Please note that audio is not available for lectures 3, 5, 7, and 22.

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: Cultural determinism and sociobiology

Lec26: Critique of cultural determinism

Lec27: Sociobiology and culture

Lec28: Triumph of sociobiology and learning

Lec29: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 2

Lec30: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 3