Date

Topic

Reading in Alcock

Other Materials: Streaming video and sound files

Tue, Jan 20

Introduction: Evolution and Behavior

Ch. 1 - 2, Ch.3 pp. 55- 80

Introduction, Trap Jaw Bouncer, Trap Jaw Take Off, Trap Jaw Up Close, Wheel Running Mice

Thur, Jan 22

Adaptation

Ch. 6, then Ch. 3 pp.80 - 95, then Ch. 9 pp. 275 - 282.

Hermit thrush, Carolina Wren, Marsh Wren, White-crowned sparrow, Brewer’s Sparrow, zcalder, zctrans, zcgrass, zcpuno, Great Tit UK, Great Tit Denmark

Tue, Jan 27

Avoiding being eaten

Ch. 7, Ch. 6 pp. 187- 205

octopus

Thur, Jan 29

Avoiding being eaten, communication

Ch. 9 pp. 304- 307

Stotting, Skylark Singing

Tue, Feb 3 (last day to drop-no grade is Feb 2)

Finding food-economics

Ch. 7

Thur, Feb 5

Honeybees

Ch. 3, pp. 55-80

Honeybee Life Cycle, Waggle Dance, Decoding the Dance,

Tue, Feb 10

Behavior of food finding, communication and recruitment

Ch. 9, pp. 297-299.

Harris Hawk Hunting

Thur, Feb 12

Sensing the world, navigation

Ch. 4

Elephant Infrasound, Oilbird echolocation clicks, Platypus foraging

Tue, Feb 17

Where to live - migration and habitat selection

Ch. 8, Ch. 4 pp. 130 - 139

shark biting electrode, Cataglyphis foraging

Thur, Feb 19

First Exam

Tue, Feb 24

Dunnocks

Dunnocks, Davies dunnocks

Thur, Feb 26

Sexual Selection

Ch. 10, pp. 317 - 333

Elephant Seals, Wolves mating-locking, Heliconius pupal guarding-marking, Hanging flies, Red Backed spiders

Tue, March 3

Mate choice

Ch. 11, Ch. 9 pp. 288 - 296, pp. 307 - 313

Wart-biter crickets mating, Helicopter damselflies, Peacock1, Temminck’s Tragopan, Bulwer’s Pheasant, Argus Pheasant, Rifle bird display, House finch plumage, Widowbird display

Thur, March 5

Mating Systems

Ch. 11

Superb Fairy Wren, elk, Sea louse polygyny, great tailed grackle, red-winged blackbird, Cock of the rock, Manakin displays, Topi lek, Satin Bowerbird, Vogelkop Bower bird, Jacana polyandry infanticide, infanticide lions

Tue, March 10

Alternative Mating/Reproductive Systems

Ch. 10 pp. 334 - 340

Blue gill alternative male strategies, blue-headed wrasse sex change

Thur, March 12

Raising young

Ch. 12, Ch. 10 pp. 324 - 327

Rhea-mating nesting, Begging, Linnet gapes

Tue, March 17

Spring Break

Thur, March 19

Spring Break

Tue, March 24

Raising young

Ch. 12

Coot brood reduction, Pelican siblicide,

Thur, March 26

Sex ratios and sexual investment

Ch. 13

Tue, March 31

Second Exam

Thur, April 2

Lions

Infanticide Lions (again), Female Infanticide defense, twinkle

Tue, April 7  (April 7 is last day to drop)

Social Evolution Cooperation and Conflict

Ch. 13

Belding’s alarm calls, blue manakin teams, long-tailed manakin, Hyaena general

Thur, April 9

See last lecture

Tue, April 14

Cooperative breeding

Ch. 13

Arabian Babblers

Thur, April 16

Cooperative breeding, Highly social behavior, Eusociality

Ch. 13

Meerkat General Pogo nest

Tue, April 21

Highly social behavior, Eusociality

Ch. 13

anemone battles, Termites, Mole rats, Damaraland mole rats

Thur, April 23

Primate Societies

Vervet Monkey calls

Tue, April 28

Chimpanzees and other apes

Chimps hunting Colobus

Thur, April 30

Human behavior

Ch. 14

May 12 11 am-2 pm

Third Exam