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Introduction to behaviour
Animal behaviour definition,
Behaviour relates to,
Modern animal behaviour research
18
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Habitat selection 1
Definition of habitat,
How to measure habitat use,
Recording and analysing 1
13
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Habitat selection 2
Leaf preference in poplar aphids ...,
Why do poplar aphids show leaf pr...,
Since a female poplar aphid encou...
15
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Territories 1
Social relationships may lead to ...,
General definition of territoriality,
Definition of home range
16
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Territories 2
E,
But how to apply numbers to these...
13
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Migration and navigation 1
Why do animals need to navigate,
Key definitions,
Simple orientation cues
21
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Migration and navigation 2/3
Definitions of migration,
Extreme migration or just wide ra...,
Mass migration of ungulates in ea...
28
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Utilising resources: optimality (foraging focus)
Natural selection,
Optimisation by selection,
Optimality and behaviours objections
29
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How to study behaviour: observation and measurement protocols
Why quantify behaviour,
Preliminary observations,
Hypotheses
14
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Animal behaviour: behavioural plasicity
Phenotype and behavioral plasticity,
See pigliucci m 2001 phenotypic p...,
The mapping function problem
25
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Individual variation: Personality 1
Concept that natural selection dr...,
Optimality can natural selection ...,
So there is natural variation aro...
18
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Individual variation: Personality 2
Examples of laboratory studies on...,
Field studies of personality,
Field study wild grey seals male ...
16
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Stress coping styles (focus on maternal grey seal)
Stress the good and the bad,
Conservation management policies ...,
Example what stressors do breedin...
13
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Instinct and learning 1
Instinct behaviours,
Instinctive behaviour fap example...,
Instinctive behaviour example 2 h...
31
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Instinct and learning 2
Insight learning,
Imitation learning,
Play
23
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Avian intelligence and social cognition
Definition intelligence,
Definition social cognition,
Why are intelligent birds interes...
19
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Social behaviour: costs and benefits
group living 1
38
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Game theory and behaviour evolution
group living 2
12
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Cooperation
group living 3
13
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Dominance, conflict and association
Group living 4
27
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Emotions in non-human animals
Questions to ask,
Why should we bother about emotio...,
Some emotional questions
19
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