Animal Behavior Lab

Catalog description

This course will be both a foundations course in animal behavior and an introduction to animal behavior research in settings that may include the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, campus laboratories, and field settings. Students will gain a basic understanding of the evolutionary basis of behavior that will be complemented by examples of current scientific investigations of behavior. Because this is a laboratory course, the bulk of students' time and effort will be spent conducting laboratory exercises focused on animal behavior and an independent research project of animal behavior. Students will have the option to choose their study species and research question(s) based on a list of options provided by the instructor. Project options will vary each year. This course may be used as a Population biology/ecology area elective and qualifies as a laboratory course for the B.A. and B.S. Biology degrees. Offered as BIOL 358L and BIOL 458L . Coreq: BIOL 458 and Graduate student standing.