Syllabus (pdf)
Assignments (pdf)
Powerpoint lectures:
Jan 25 -- Natural selection
Jan 28 -- Proximate causes
Feb 4 -- Learning
Feb 11 -- Social learning
Feb 18 - Foraging
Feb 29 -- Antipredator behavior
March 5 -- Habitat selection
March 10 -- Territoriality
March 12 -- Migration
April 2 -- Sexual selection
April 11 -- Mating systems
April 14 -- EPCs and sperm
competition
April 16 -- Kinship
April 21 -- Conflict and
recognition
April
23 -- Cooperation
Readings for class:
Jan 23 --
Excerpt from Darwin's On
the origin of species.
Jan 25 -- Drent
et al - Realized Heritability
of Personalities in the Great Tit (Parus major)
Discussion
questions for Drent et al.
Jan
30 -- Ryan -- Sexual selection, receiver biases, etc.
- Discussion questions on Ryan
Feb 8 -- Odling-Smeef
and Braithwaite. 2003. The influence of habitat stability on landmark
use during spatial learning in the three-spined stickleback. Animal
Behaviour 65: 701-707.
Feb 13 -- Rendell,
LE andWhitehead, H. 2003. Vocal clans in sperm whales.
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 270:225-231.
Discussion
questions on Rendell and Whitehead
Feb 25 -- Julie
W. Smith, Craig W. Benkman, and Kimberly Coffey. 1999. The use and
misuse of public information by foraging red crossbills. Behav. Ecol.
10: 54 - 62.
Discussion
questions
March 7 -- Werner,
EE and DJ Hall. Ontogenetic habitat shifts in bluegill: the
foraging rate-predation risk tradeoff. Ecology 69:1352-13-66.
Discussion
questions
April 2 -- Excerpt from Descent of Man
(Darwin).
Roughgarden,
J. -- Evolution and the embodiment of gender
April 6 -- MOCZEK,
A. P. and EMLEN D. J. 2000. Male horn dimorphism in the scarab
beetle, Onthophagus taurus : do alternative reproductive tactics favour
alternative phenotypes? Animal Behaviour 59: 459-466.
April 8 -- Sirot and Brockman. 2001. Costs
of sexual interactions to females in Rambur’s forktail damselfly,
Ischnura ramburi (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) Animal Behaviour.
61:415-424. AND Cooper, I.A.
Submitted. Ecological causation of intersexual mimicry in a damselfly.
April 25 -- Wilson,
EO. and B. Holldobler. Eusociality: Origin and consequences. PNAS
102:13367-13371.
April 28 -- Discussion questions on
Heinrich Chapt. 1-5
Resources
Arkive.org -- A digital database
of movies and pictures of animals
Macauley
Library of Digital sound and video -- lots of good bird stuff from
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology