• Defining behavior
• Approaches to studying animal behavior
• Sociobiology--what is it and how does it relate to animal behavior
• Career options in animal behavior

Strategies and tactics for survival

Game theory and behavior

• Game theory
• Evolutionarily stable strategies
• Hawk versus dove game
• Prediction games
• Prisoner's dilemma
• Strategies.
• Solutions.

Classical ethology

• Nature versus nurture
• Niko Tinbergen
• Causation
• Survival value
• Ontogeny
• Evolution
• Konrad Lorenz
• Karl von Frisch