xyzzy-1071.gif (10839 bytes) Animal Behavior and Ethology

Introduction wpe1F9.jpg (1456 bytes)

  1. History of Animal Behavior. The entire text is here.
  2. What is Instinct? NOTE: Read this through "Can we study human behaviour?".
  3. Genes and Behavior.
  4. Genes, Environment, Development and Behavior.
  5. Natural and Sexual Selection.
  6. Levels of Selection. (Individual, Kin, etc.)
  7. Behavior and Speciation Mechanisms (Biological isolating mechanisms, allopatric vs. sympatric, etc.)
  8. Dispersal, Navigation, and Migration.
  9. Macroevolution Patterns and Phylogeny.
  10. Animal Behavior links.

Communication by Animals wpe1FA.jpg (1413 bytes)

  1. Sensory Systems and Communication.
  2. The dance language of bees (look here too!) Also, Measuring Beelines to Food
  3. Communication goes multimodal.
  4. Language use by chimpanzees.
  5. Read "About pheromones" and Mating strategies of butterflies (including pheromones).
  6. A comparison of the Vomeronasal organ in humans and other animals is found here. Read this too
  7. Listen to some interesting animal sounds at the Bioacoustics Page.
  8. Bird song recordings. Listen here. Another good site is here.
  9. Audubon's Multimedia Birds of America.
  10. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Charley Darwin). Read the whole text!
  11. Signal to Noise Ratio in Animal Communication.

Mating Behavior wpe1FB.jpg (2293 bytes)

  1. Sex Determination and Differentiation.
  2. Male Reproductive Strategies vs Female Reproductive Strategies.
  3. Mating Strategies in Butterflies.
  4. Proximate and Ultimate Origins of Female Preferences.
  5. Mating Systems and Parental Investment.
  6. How females choose their mates.
  7. How rank affects reproduction in female chimpanzees. Hear the NPR interview here (about 3.5 min).
  8. Infidelity and Cuckoldry
  9. Blank-firing Butterflies.
  10. Driving Parents Cuckoo. More detail is here.
  11. A snippit from Sex Determination, Sex Ratios, and Genetic Conflict. Download the article (needs Adobe Acrobat. Get it here).
  12. Natural and Sexual Selection.
  13. Rape Throughout the Animal Kingdom

Predation and Feeding Behavior wpe1FC.jpg (2682 bytes)

  1. Optimal Foraging Theory.
  2. Predator and Prey Strategies.
  3. The Role of Parasitism in Evolution

 

Physiological Ethology wpe2.jpg (2772 bytes)

  1. Comparative and Physiological Psychology
  2. Perceptual Symbol Systems
  3. Animal Senses
  4. Electroreception
  5. The Magnetic Sense of Animals

Social Behavior wpe1FD.jpg (2483 bytes)

  1. Social Insects web site.
  2. Evolution of Sociality.
  3. Fugus-growing ants.

Animal Consciousness and Intellegence wpe1FE.jpg (1346 bytes)

  1. Learning and Cognition.
  2. Visit the Primate Home Page: Links to language sites, primate evolution, etc.
  3. Which of Our Genes Make Us Human? Read about the genetic simularity between humans and chimpanzees.
  4. The Question of Primate Language
  5. Only Unthinking Intellegenece? The nature of animal intellegence and consciousness.
  6. Current Issues and Emerging Theories in Animal Cognition.
  7. Animal Learning and Cognition.
  8. Cognition as Compression
  9. Psyche Symposium on Animal Consciousness
  10. More animal consciousness (Colin Allen)
  11. Consciousness and Neuroscience
  12. Testing Consciousness in Pigeons
  13. A Conscious Computing System?
  14. Thinking About Thought
  15. The Brain Project

Miscellaneous wpe200.jpg (1512 bytes)

Laboratory-related resources and examples.camera.gif (38819 bytes)

See what's going on in the Spider Lab! wpe1FF.jpg (1671 bytes)

Booby_Dance_Button.gif (7469 bytes)Behavior Pix

human ethol.gif (4019 bytes)Human Ethology

human pix button.gif (6785 bytes)Human ethology picture collection.