INTRODUCTION:
IS LIFE A GAME?
- Animal behavior
- Strategies and Tactics
for Survival
- Game Theory and Behavior
- Classical Ethology
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REGULATION OF
BEHAVIOR: NEURAL, SENSORY AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS
- Neurons and functional
control of behavior
- Nervous systems
- Endocrine systems
- Neural and endocrine integration
in the development of behavior
- Sensing the environment
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DRIVE, HOMEOSTASIS
AND TIME BUDGETS
- The ethological concept
of drive
- Modern concepts of homeostatic
regulation
- Balancing demands: how
animals budget their time
- Developmental and seasonal
changes
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COMMUNICATION
- Modes of communication
- Evolution of communication
- Game theory and communication
- Communication in social
groups
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EVOLUTION
AND BEHAVIORAL GENETICS
- Simple genetic models of
behavior
- Behavior as a quantitative
trait
- Artificial selection and
behavior
- Natural selection and behavior
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LEARNING
- Habituation and simple
conditioning
- Short and longterm storage
of information
- Animal intelligence
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NAVIGATION AND
DISPERSAL
- Local navigation
- Homing
- Migration
- Dispersal
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FORAGING
- Foraging strategies
- Optimal foraging theory
- Social foraging
- Intelligence and foraging
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SELF-DEFENSE
- Vigilance
- Crypsis
- Active defense
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NESTING AND
TERRITORIALITY
- Nesting
- Agonism and territorial
possession
- Territories for feeding
and mating
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MATING SYSTEMS
- How many males, how many
females?
- Female mate choice
- Male mate choice
- Extrapair copulations
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PARENTAL BEHAVIOR
- Which parent cares for
the young?
- Conflicts of interest
- Nurturing and helping
- The ugly side of animal
behavior: infanticide and siblicide
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KINSHIP AND
COOPERATION
- The prisoner's dilemma
revisited
- Cooperation among non-kin
- Cooperation among kin,
kin selection and kin recognition
- Extreme cooperation: eusocial
animals
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COGNITION AND
EMOTION
- The evolutionary roots
of emotion
- "Knowing" in
animals
- Do cognition and emotion
establish a boundary between humans and other animals?
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BEHAVIOR AND
CONSERVATION
- Applying behavior in conservation
contexts
- Welfare and breeding in
captive populations
- Minimum population size,
home range, and fluctuations in wild populations
- The role of behaivor in
reintroduction programs
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