Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field ：An Hypothesis-testing Approach to the Development, Causation, Function, and Evolution of Animal Behavior

Publication subTitle ：An Hypothesis-testing Approach to the Development, Causation, Function, and Evolution of Animal Behavior

Author： Ploger Bonnie J.;Yasukawa Ken

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2002

E-ISBN: 9780080506197

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780125583305

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780125583305

Subject： Q958.12 animal biological environmental relationship

Language： ENG

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Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field is designed to provide a variety of exercises that engage students actively in all phases of scientific investigation, from formulating research questions through interpreting and presenting final results. It attempts to share the collective teaching expertise and experience of members of the Animal Behavior Society with all who are willing to benefit from their wisdom. Four types of exercises are presented: (1) traditional exercises in which students follow a pre-determined protocol to test particular hypotheses explicitly stated in the exercise, (2) traditional exercises that can easily be adapted to inquiry-based approaches, (3) combined pedagogy exercises that involve both traditional and inquiry approaches, and (4) inquiry exercises in which students first brainstorm to generate their own hypotheses, then design their own experiements to test their hypotheses.

* Supports a range of pedagogical styles and texts in animal behavior with active learning experiences that engage students
* Students and instructors benefit from knowledge and experience of members of the Animal Behavior Society
* Flexibility of design enables students and instrucotrs to tailor the exercises to their needs
* Can be used to support lab courses that are completely inquiry based as well as independent student research projects in animal behavior
* Consideration of animal care guidelines provides an excellent way to addr

Chapter

Front Cover

Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field

Part 1: Describing Behavior

Chapter 1. Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior

Chapter 2. Developing Operational Definitions and Measuring Interobserver Reliability Using House Crickets (Acheta domesticus)

Part 2: Causation

Chapter 3. Courtship, Mating, and Sex Pheromones in the Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor)

Chapter 4. Courtship and Mate Attraction in Parasitic Wasps

Chapter 5. Chemoreception in Lizards

Chapter 6. Behavioral Thermoregulation in Field Populations of Amphibian Larvae

Chapter 7. Temperature Dependence of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish

Chapter 8. Observing and Analyzing Human Nonverbal Communication

Chapter 9. Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics: An Ant's-Eye View

Chapter 10. Hummingbird Foraging Patterns: Experiments Using Artificial Flowers

Chapter 11. Honey Bee Foraging Behavior

Chapter 12. Individual Constancy to Color by Foraging Honey Bees

Part 3: Development

Chapter 13. Dog Training Laboratory: Applied Animal Behavior

Chapter 14. Paternal Care and Its Effect on Maternal Behavior and Pup Survival and Development in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Chapter 15. The Effect of Prenatal Visual Stimulation on the Imprinting Responses of Domestic Chicks: An Examination of Sensitive Periods During Development

Chapter 16. Development of Thermoregulation in Altricial Rodents

Chapter 17. Aggregation and Kin Recognition in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus laevis)

Part 4: Adaptation and Evolution

Section I: Foraging

Chapter 18. Diving Birds: A Field Study of Benthic and Piscivorous Foragers

Chapter 19. Found A Peanut: Foraging Decisions by Squirrels

Chapter 20. Economic Decisions and Foraging Trade-offs in Chickadees

Chapter 21. Seed Selection by Foraging Birds

Chapter 22. Competitive Behavior of Birds at Feeders

Section II: Avoiding Predators

Chapter 23. Vigilance and the Group-size Effect: Observing Behavior in Humans

Chapter 24. The Function of "Chat" Calls in Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos). Vocal Defense of Nestlings

Chapter 25. Diving and Skating in Whirligig Beetles: Alternative Antipredator Responses

Chapter 26. The Response of Tree Squirrels to Conspecific and Heterospecific Alarm Calls

Section III: Agonistic Behavior

Chapter 27. Competition for Breeding Resources by Burying Beetles

Chapter 28. Learning to be Winners and Losers: Agonistic Behavior in Crayfish

Section IV: Courtship and Parental Care

Chapter 29. Costs and Benefits of Maternal Care in Earwigs

Chapter 30. Vocal Behavior and Mating Tactics of the Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer): A Field Exercise in Animal Behavior

Chapter 31. The Role of Multiple Male Characters in Mate Choice by Female Guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

Chapter 32. Investigating Human Mate Choice Using the Want Ads

Section V: Games

Chapter 33. Demonstrating Strategies for Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma

Chapter 34. Using Empirical Games to Teach Animal Behavior

Section VI: Evolution

Chapter 35. The Evolution of Behavior: A Phylogenetic Approach

Appendices

A. Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching

B. Ethical Use of Human Subjects

C. Introduction to Statistics

Glossary

Index

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