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Animal Behavior

Subject: Science

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Instructor: Prof. Gerald E. Schneider
Term: Fall 2013
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 25 videos · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 105 other files · 3 web pages
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Gerald E. Schneider, 9.20 Animal Behavior, Fall 2013.

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Animal Behavior

Before you start

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Materials by section

Readings and Viewings

Lecture Notes

Final Projects

Other materials from this course

Lec1: Introduction to animal behavior and how it is studied

Lec2: Introduction to ethology

Lec4: Ethology and Konrad Lorenz' Jackdaws

Lec6: Fixed action patterns and central nervous system

Lec8: Innate behaviors, motivation and fundamentals of ethology

Lec9: Lorenz on fundamental ethology, part 1

Lec10: Lorenz on fundamental ethology, part 2

Lec11: Lorenz on fundamentals of ethology, part 3

Lec12: Evolution and the development and plasticity of behavior, part 1

Lec13: Evolution and the development and plasticity of behavior, part 2

Lec14: Communication and Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert, part 1

Lec15: Communication and Meerkats of the Kalahari Desert, part 2

Lec16: Foraging behaviors

Lec17: Anti-predator behavior

Lec18: Mating and reproduction

Lec20: Sociobiology

Lec21: Genetic influences on social behavior

Lec23: Sociobiology, mating behaviors and scientific method

Lec24: Discoveries of sociobiology

Lec25: Cultural determinism and sociobiology

Lec26: Critique of cultural determinism

Lec27: Sociobiology and culture

Lec28: Triumph of sociobiology and learning

Lec29: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 2

Lec30: Konrad Lorenz on learning, part 3