Animal Behaviour

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Evolutionary and comparative analyses of animal behaviour. Topics include foraging behaviours, evolution of sex, mate choice, sociality, empathy, conflict and play, nature/nurture controversies, sensory modalities, communication and the evolution of language, hemispheric dominance and laterality, taxonomic diversity of nervous systems, proximate and ultimate mechanisms for interpreting behaviour. Laboratory includes observational and experimental approaches to behaviour of representative invertebrate and vertebrate taxa and a field research project.