Subsections
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- History Of Animal Behavior: Behaviorism and Ethology, Founders of Ethology, Learned vs Innate Behaviour, Instincts, Conditioning, Habituation, Reinforcement.
- Measuring Behaviour: States and Events, Measures of Behaviour, Sampling Methods, Constructing Ethograms.
- Animal Communication: Modes of Communication, Advantages and Disadvantages, Functions of Communication, Types of Signals.
- Finding Food: Foraging Strategies, Generalists vs Specialists, Marginal Value Theorem and Patch Residence Time, Economics of Diet Selection.
- Finding Shelter: Habitat Selection, Territoriality, Dispersal, Migration.
- Finding Mates: Mating Systems, Mating Behaviour, Male-Male Competition, Sexual Selection by Female Choice.
- Avoiding Predators: Antipredator Behaviour, Prey-predator Interactions, Red Queen Hypothesis.
- Parental Care: Adaptive Value, Asymmetry in Parental Investment, Offspring Recognition, Brood Parasitism, Parent-Offspring conflict.
- Social Behavior: Animal Societies, The Costs and Benefits of Group-living, Cooperation and Conflict, Kin-selection and Inclusive Fitness.
- Neuroethology And Behavioural Genetics: Development of Behaviour, Processing of Sensory Information, Hormonal control of behaviour, Learning, Memory and Cognition.
- Alcock J. 2005, Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Approach, 8th Edition, Sinauer Associates, Inc.
- Davies N. B., Krebs J. R., West S. A. 2012, An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology, 4th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
