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BIOL 321

Animal Behaviour

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Chapter 1 and 2: Introduction and the integrative study of animal behaviour
  • Chapter 12: Principles of social evolution
  • Perception
  • Learning
  • Genetics
  • Neurobiology

Readings

  • Required: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
Winter 2023

Readings

  • Required: Animal Behavior 12th Edition, 2022 by Dustin Rubenstein. Oxford University Press. This newest edition is different from earlier editions, so students are advised to use this version.
2018-2019

Topics

  • The scientific method and integrative approaches to the study of animal behaviour
  • Movement

Readings

  • Required: Animal Behavior 11th Edition, 2019. Oxford University Press. This new edition is quite different from earlier editions, so students are strongly advised to use this version.
2017-2018

Topics

  • Studying animal behaviour: hypotheses, approaches and ethical considerations
  • Selection and behavioural adaptation
  • Behavioural variation: hormones and neurons
  • Learning and cultural transmission
  • Sexual selection and mating behaviour
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Conservation
  • Critical thinking
  • Development

Readings

  • Required: Principles of Animal Behavior 3rd Edition, 2013. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
  • Required: See 321 OnQ site for Reserve material, other readings.
2016-2017

Topics

  • Studying animal behaviour: hypotheses, approaches and ethical considerations
  • Selection and behavioural adaptation
  • Behavioural variation: hormones and neurons
  • Learning and cultural transmission
  • Sexual selection and mating behaviour
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Conservation
  • Critical thinking
  • Development

Readings

  • Required: Nordell, S.E. and T. J. Valone. 2014. Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications. Oxford University Press.
2015-2016

Topics

  • adaptation
  • neurons
  • Learning
  • Sexual
  • Animal behaviour
  • Perception
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Conservation
  • Critical thinking
2014-2015

Topics

  • Natural Selection and Evolution
  • Learning and Cultural Transmission
  • Sexual Selection
  • Animal behaviour
  • Perception
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Conservation
  • Development
2013-2014

Topics

  • Natural Selection and Evolution
  • Learning and Cultural Transmission
  • Sexual Selection
  • Animal behaviour
  • Perception
  • Ecology
  • Physiology
  • Genetics
  • Conservation
  • Development
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