The Animal Behavior Home Page

Basic Course Information

A kin-group of female elephants guarding a dozing infant in Amboseli, Kenya

Updates & Information

Week 4

In lecture: Continued discussion of Animal Communciation including a group discussion

In lab: Quantifying behaviors in the lab.

An interesting discovery of ultrasound abilities in a primate!

Recent news on animal behavior
 
 
 

Taught by Professor Ken Clifton

(clifton@lclark.edu)

This course broadly exposes students to evolutionary and ecological processes that promote the vast diversity of behaviors found on our planet. A strong emphasis on natural selection and the adaptiveness of behaviors pervades the course. The curriculum aims to define and organize this diversity for upper-division undergraduate students by considering two basic questions: How do animals behave (Ethology) and why do they behave as they do (Behavioral Ecology)?

A course offering from the

Department of Biology

at

Lewis and Clark College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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