INTRODUCTION: IS LIFE A GAME?
- Animal behavior
- Strategies and Tactics for Survival
- Game Theory and Behavior
- Classical Ethology
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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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TERRITORIALITY
- Agonism and territorial possession
- Territories for feeding
- Territories for 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 BEHAVIOR
- Kin-directed behavior
- Kin recognition
- Assessing the importance of kinship in behavior
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COOPERATION
- The prisoner's dilemma revisited
- Cooperation among non-kin
- Cooperation among kin
- 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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