Biodiversity Stewardship Lab

Part 1 (4 weeks). Minds: instinct & intelligence

Halliday 1994

Dugatkin 2009

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Unit 1. Living with other animals : Introduction to the course: what? * Reflections in the mirror: who? * Basic Questions: how? why?

8-9, 105-111, 140

1-117

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Unit 2. Adapting to changing worlds : Learned intelligence * Social transmission * Heritable instinct

133-139

118-187

Unit 3. Survival/migration skills: Adaptations: stressful conditions * Cause & function of migration * Development & evolution of migration

113-131

430-455

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Review of Part 1

Part 2 (4 weeks). Social: living in groups

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Unit 4. Communicating : Sensory channels * Flexible signs: learned* Fixed signals: inherited

81-87

400-429

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Unit 5. Attack & defense : Intense combat: fight or flight * Minor conflict: escalation & avoidance * Assessment of asymmetry

89-96

456-485

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Unit 6. Hierarchy : Personality & Social structure: stability/instability * Social function: access to resources * Stress, health & reproduction

97-104

538-564

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Review of Part 2

Part 3 (3 weeks). Mating: from birth to maturity

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Unit 7. Rearing the young: Families: helpers * Parental care * Which parent works?

29-39

260-293

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Unit 8. Mating & birth: Internal fertilization * External fertilization * Asexual/hermaphroditic

21-27

226-259

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Unit 9. Courting rituals: Species specific “flags” * Female choosiness * Male attractiveness

13-19

188-225

Part 4 (3 weeks). Physical: food & shelter

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Unit 10. Hunting: Group hunters * Solitary hunters * Anti-predator defense

43-55

368-399

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Unit 11. Foraging & Storing: Generalists * Specialists * Store food

57-63

334-367

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Unit 12. Creating a home: Secretions * External objects * Colonies

8-140

294-333

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Review for final exam

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FINAL EXAM (Wed. 8-10am)  Proctored on line and on campus