New Field Course on Animal Behavior

Announcing a new course! ANIMAL SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Location: Shoals Marine Lab, Cornell University/UNH, Appledore Island, ME

Instructors: Tom Seeley, Paul Sherman, Janet Shellman (CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior)

Dates: June 2-9, 2008

Credits: 2

Website for more information: http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_cc_hegworld.html

Course description:

The emphasis of this course is steering you toward a theoretical framework for understanding animal social behavior. We will focus on how natural selection shapes behavioral traits that enhance reproductive success. How and why natural selection fashions animal social behavior is best understood by observing organisms in the ecological setting in which they live and reproduce. Thus, for this summer, we will all become behavioral ecologists as we attempt to explore the fascinating social behaviors of the Herring Gull. The Herring Gull's World, a classic book by Nobel Laureate, Niko Tinbergen, will be read and discussed while exploring the topics of natural selection and behavior, levels of analysis, communication, levels of selection, territoriality, mating systems, animal cognition, kinship and infanticide. Methods of measuring behavior and designing experiments will be taught, and students will conduct individual research projects.

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