9.20 | Fall 2013 | Undergraduate

Animal Behavior

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Lecture 1 Notes: Introduction: class requirements, various approaches to animal behavior and its study
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Lecture 2 Notes: Introduction to ethology; three-spined stickleback fish
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Lecture 3 Notes: Introduction to ethology; field studies of birds; Niko Tinbergen’s questions
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Lecture 4 Notes: Ethology; Konrad Lorenz’ Jackdaws
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Lecture 5 Notes: Ethology of geese; fixed action patterns and the CNS
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Lecture 6 Notes: Fixed action patterns and the CNS
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Lecture 7 Notes: Input and output slides of innate behavior; motivation
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Lecture 8 Notes: Innate behavior and motivation; Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology: The “fixed action pattern”
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Lecture 9 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology
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Lecture 10 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology
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Lecture 11 Notes: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology
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Lecture 12 Notes: Evolution; development & plasticity of behavior
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Lecture 13 Notes: Evolution; development & plasticity of behavior
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Lecture 14 Notes: Communication; Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert
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Lecture 15 Notes: Communication; Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert
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Lecture 16 Notes: Foraging; anti-predation behavior
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Lecture 17 Notes: Anti-predation behavior
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Lecture 18 Notes: Mating & Reproduction
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Lecture 19 Notes: Introduction to Sociobiology
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Lecture 20 Notes: Sociobiology subject matter
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Lecture 20 Notes: Sociobiology subject matter
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Lecture 21 Notes: Genetic influences on social behavior
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Lecture 23 Notes: Domestic cat; scientific method in sociobiology
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Lecture 24 Notes: Discoveries of Sociobiology
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Lecture 25 Notes: Cultural Determinism & Sociobiology
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Lecture 25 Supplement: E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology
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Lecture 26 Notes: Critique of cultural determinism
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Lecture 27 Notes: Sociobiology and culture
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Lecture 28 Notes: "The triumph of sociobiology"; Konrad Lorenz on learning
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Lecture 29 Notes: Konrad Lorenz on learning
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Lecture 30 Notes: Konrad Lorenz on learning; Video: The Great Apes

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