BIO 154 - Animal Behavior

Lectures and discussions will cover selected topics of the behavior of animals, including man. The approach will be biological rather than psychological. Such topics as communication systems, territoriality, social parasitism, and genetic bases for behavioral differences, among others, will be studied.

• Course Syllabus
• Laboratory Projects
• 2009 First Hour Exam - Key
• Sample Exams- first hour exam can be found here and here
• sample 2nd hour exam
• , Final

READINGS FOR CLASS

      Hormones -  Weds, Jan 28, three articles.    Here a,  here b,  here c

Text: Dugatkin: Principles of Animal Behavior

Professor: Dan Guthrie
Keck Science Center 106
phone ext 72836 or email    I CHECK EMAIL REGULARLY, NOT PHONE
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 8-11 am, 1-4 pm.
Monday, and Friday 1-4 pm or by appointment

General Format:
2 lectures a week and one day of film, but not always the same day.

Grading:
200 points = exams
200 points = final (100 review, 100 new)
200 points = term project or paper or labs.

Project1: Ethnograms Due Jan 26th

Prerequisites	Biology 43, 44
Offered in Spring every year by Dr. Guthrie