BIOL 680 - Animal Behavior

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This course explores the general themes and important questions in animal behavior. We cover subjects that examine how and why animals interact in the way they do with each other and with their environment. Topics will include the genetics of behavior, behavioral development, learning, animal communication, habitat selection, foraging, sexual selection, and mating systems, among others. This is a quantitative course, a familiarity with basic statistics and mathematics is assumed. This course will involve 2hours of lecture per week, and 2 hours of combined seminar/discussion and class participation projects (4 credit hours per semester).
Prerequisite: Pre-requisites: BIOL 142 or equivalent, STAT 350 or equivalent