PWS
554
Wildlife Behavioral Ecology
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Integrating principles of ethology, sociobiology, and behavioral ecology using examples from wildlife resources; behavioral sampling methods.
Basic Principles
Students will become familiar with the basic principles of animal behavior including:
- An introduction to the basic principles of animal behavior
- A review of natural selection and its role in shaping animal behavior
- A study of proximate factors which influence behavior
- The role of learning
- Cooperation
- Foraging
- Antipredator behavior
- Communication
- Habitat selection, territoriality, and migration
- Aggression
- Play
- Aging and disease
- Animal personalities