Animal Behaviour WF-OB-OLEJNIANIM-ER
1. Animal behaviour: introduction
2.Social behaviour: social insects, altruism in social insects, altruism in vertebrates
3.How animals communicate with each other?
4.How to avoid a predator and find food?
5.How to find the optimal habitat? What are the benefits of territoriality? Why do animals migrate?
6.Animal behavioral adaptations to life in extreme environments
7.How do parasites affect the behavior of animals?
8.Biological clock and animal behaviour
9.Reproductive behaviour: sexual selection, mating system
10.Parental care: Parental care in invertebrates, parental care in vertebrates, relation: parent-offspring, sibling competition, brood parasitism
11.Neural and hormonal control of the animal behaviour
12.Human behaviour
13.New aspects of animal behaviour: Bahaviorists vs. Ethologists, the idea of “Umwelt”
14.How the animals learn?
15. Presentation of the given subject
E-Learning
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Symbol/Symbole kierunkowe efektów uczenia się
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Kryteria oceniania
Basic knowledge of biology
After the course students will be able to:
1) plan and conduct research
2) analyze the results
3) discuss the results with the literature
4) presents the research
Literatura
John Alcock 2013 Animal Behavior – an evolutionary approach. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA. 522 pp.
Nick J. Royle, Per T. Smiseth, Mathias Kölliker 2012 The evolution of parental care. Oxford University Press. 356 pp.
In addition, resent publications on the issue in question
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