Animal Behavior Home Page
(BIO115)
Bethel College, North Newton, KS
Interterm, 2008

Syllabus

Web site for various course materials

Handouts

Guidelines for Papers, Posters, and Oral Presentations
Discussion Questions - Chapters 1 and 2 of lab text

Discussion Questions - Chapters 3 and 4 of lab text

Discussion Questions - Mozart's starling

Discussion Questions - dog detection of bladder cancer

Discussion Questions - fox domestication

Discussion Questions - the lion's mane

Discussion Questions - prairie voles

Discussion Questions - migratory sleeplessness

Discussion Questions - the bee's waggle dance

Discussion Questions - scent and the waggle dance

Discussion Questions - helping behavior in jays

Discussion Questions - helping behavior in chimpanzees and chilren

Discussion Questions - sharing in ravens

Discussion Questions - recognition of goat kids by their mothers

Discussion Questions - foraging and antipredatory behavior in squirrels

Discussion Questions - use of spatial memory in foraging by sheep

Discussion Questions - animals and numbers

Discussion Questions - honeybees as a superorganism

Discussion Questions - tool use in crows

Discussion Questions - chickadee song

Discussion Questions - neural basis of birdsong

Discussion Questions - bonobos

Link to the article on bonobos

Discussion Questions - gorilla tool use

Discussion Questions - play of dogs with humans

Discussion Questions - songs of male mice

Discussion Questions - cooperative hunting in groupers and eels

Discussion Questions - math in monkeys and college students

Discussion Questions - army ant evolution

Discussion Questions - play in ground squirrels

Discussion Questions - personality in dogs

Discussion Questions - attraction of mosquitoes by malaria patients

Discussion Questions - peaceful culture in baboons

Discussion Questions - yawning

Notes on Science and Creationism

Online Experiment
Optimal foraging experiment

Slide Shows
End-of-Interterm Research Symposium
Off-Campus Links Related to This Course

The value of studying animal behavior
Sources on evolution at Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Animal Behavior Society
Research on New Caledonian crows
Ravens
Primate Info Net
The Electronic Zoo
Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group Home Page