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Apr 23, 2024
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BIONB 3230 - [Behavioral Ecology, Evolution and Genomics] (BIO-AS, PBS-AS) Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2023-2024. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: BIONB 2210 . Offered in odd-numbered years only.
M. Sheehan.
This course provides hands-on experience with modern methods for studying animal behavior both in the field and in the laboratory. Class projects will be complemented with a series of workshops and demonstrations of methods. Topics include: experimental design, animal tracking, animal color analysis, sound analysis, chemical analysis, capture/marking methods, determining relatedness, measuring social behavior, and behavioral statistics in R.
Outcome 1: Provide students with hands-on experience in designing experiments to test hypotheses about animal behavior that they have heard about in lecture courses.
Outcome 2: Provide students with hands-on experience designing field and lab studies with the eventual statistics in mind and then using those statistics on data they themselves have gathered.
Outcome 3: Expose students to a diversity of devices and techniques for animal behavior research including tracking, color measurement, sound recording and analysis, video recording and analysis, and olfactory signal analysis.
Outcome 4: Provide students with detailed mentoring and feedback on the writing of scientific reports based on their own data and analyses.
Outcome 5: Expose students to the excitement and appeal of field and lab research on animal behavior.
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