Animal Behavior
Biology 345
Dr. Kari Benson
This web page is your resource for class
information including reading lists, assignment instructions, up-to-date
changes in laboratory plans (weather dependent), and general information.
Class information: You can access the course
syllabus from this link.
Animal
Laboratory meets in 221
Questions? email Dr. B.
The texts for this class
are:
Dugatkin, L. A. 2004. Principles
of Animal Behavior. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Karban, R. and M. Huntzinger,
2006. How to
Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook.
We will be using
Calibrated Peer Review. Access the web site here.
As
you prepare your experiments, I recommend that you examine:
Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching.
Animal Behaviour 65:249-255. pdf
Laboratory and
assignment information:
Field Trip Rules and Regulations
Having
a difficult time finding appropriate citations? Please
search for journal information at the search engines that are linked from our
library.
Data:
Additional links:
International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Suggestions for Organizing
Group Projects
North Carolina Zoological Park
You can look at
some of the more unusual results of artificial selection in dogs. See the
results of this year's Westminster Dog
Show or look at the National
Geographic write-up on Westminster.
You can explore
some web sites that discuss dog training in more detail. You can explore more
on your own for training other species.
Clicker training
sites: Click and treat, clicker train.
Obedience sites: Dog Obedience Links
Dog Obedience Page
What dog is right
for you? Select-a-pet
can help. There are other, similar, sites for different types of pets, such as
cats.
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