Advanced Animal Behavior, Spring 2000

Abstract:

Reviews selected issues including learning, cognition, perception, foraging and feeding, migration and navigation, defense, and social activities including conflict, collaboration, courtship and reproduction, and communication. The interacting contributions of environment and heredity are examined and the approaches of psychology, ethology, and ecology to this area of study are treated. The relation of human behavior patterns to those of nonhuman animals is explored. Additional readings and a paper are required for graduate credit.

Subject:

Science and Technology

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

SubTopics:

Animals and Insects

Collection:

MIT OpenCourseWare