Animal Behavior Labs and Class Exercises
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These labs and exercises are collected from a variety of places: Symposia of the Animal Behavior Society's Education Committee, submissions by friends and colleagues, out-of-print books, and even a few I made up on my own. I have tried to indicate the source of all lab ideas where and when I can. However, sometimes names become detached from ideas brought home from a conference or workshop. If you see your ideas reflected here without acknowledgement, please email me and let me know so that I can give you proper credit.
Labs are organized below by topic areas. To see a list of all available labs in alphabetical order, click here.
Evolution
Genetics
Umwelt
Predation/Predator-Prey
Territoriality
Learning Observational Methods
Learning And Memory
Communication
Social Behavior
Development
Play
Orientation
  

 

Rat Predation Lab

Human Ethology Lab

Robin Territoriality Lab

Robin Foraging Lab

Avian Foraging Behavior Lab

Predator-Prey In-Class Exercise

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Links to Course Syllabi:

PSY/BIO 226: Comparative Animal Behavior. By Kathleen Morgan, Dept. of Psychology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766.

Comparative Psychology. By Christopher K. Randall, Mount Holyoke College. Features syllabi, links to other info, and a special feature: Animal Website of the Week.

PSY 324 Animal Behavior Study Guide. By Christopher S. Evans, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. Includes reading lists, lists of keywords, and a dictionary of terms.

Animal Behavior. By William A. Hayes, II, Dept. of Biology, P.O.Box 3234, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS 38733

Animal Behavior/Ethology: Zoo and Conservation Biology Perspectives. By Dr. Jane M. Packard, Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2258. Syllabi for an undergraduate and graduate course, along with on-line descriptions of class exercises, etc.

Observing Primate Behavior. By Sharon Pochron, University of New Mexico. Syllabus for a behavioral primatology course.

Mike Noonan's Homepage. By Michael Noonan, Depts. of Psychology and Biology, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY 14208. Links to syllabi for animal behavior and physiological psychology courses, plus other resources (such as a "species of the week" game, with behavioral and other information on each animal posted each week.)

Links to Shareware, Software, Other Teaching Tools:

1. Exploring the Animal Mind. A set of Windows-based software modules for teaching basic principles and advanced theories in animal cognition and behavior.

2. Home Range: a spatial data analysis program developed by Jack Bradbury (UCSD) and Robert Huber (University Graz, Austria). HomeRange is at Version 2.0.1 for PPC as well as for 68K Macs. You can download a self-extracting archive with both programs and sample data files.

3. Java Grinders: a site with freeware Java applets/applications for the analysis of behavioral data.

 

 

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