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Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2021.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field
- Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1
- Describing behavior
- 1
- A question of behaviors: how to design, test, and use an ethogram
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Species and subject selection
- Materials needed, including variations based on species selection
- Step-by-step instructions
- Results/discussion
- Assignment 1
- Assignment 2
- Assignment 3 (if assigned)
- Paper instructions
- Conclusions
- References
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- In-class preparation
- 2
- Consistency in data collection: creating operational definitions
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Step-by-step instructions
- Step 1: preliminary observations
- Questions for discussion
- Step 2: creating an operational definition for locomotion
- Step 3: creating an operational definition for contact
- Step 4: creating an operational definition for feeding
- Results/data analysis
- Interobserver reliability
- Discussion questions
- References
- Classroom management
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- Modifications to this activity
- Areas of potential confusion or difficulty for students
- In-class preparation
- Step 1: preliminary observations
- Step 2: creating an operational definition for locomotion
- Step 3: creating an operational definition for contact
- Step 4: creating an operational definition for feeding
- Analytical approach
- Recommendations for extensions or continuations for more advanced classes
- Answer key
- Preliminary questions.
- End-of-activity questions
- 3
- Observation and inference in observing human and nonhuman behavior
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Part 1: Observing Human smiles
- Procedure
- Results/discussion
- Analytical approach
- Questions
- Part 2. Observation and inference when observing nonhuman animals
- Procedure
- Results/discussion
- Questions
- References
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- Modifications to the activity
- In-class preparation
- Analytical approach
- Areas of potential confusion or difficulty for students
- Recommendations for extensions or continuations for more advanced classes
- Answer key (smiling)
- Answer key (videos)
- 4
- A matter of time: comparing observation methods
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- Learning goals and objectives
- Background
- Purpose
- Behavioral "rules"
- Methods
- Results and discussion
- References
- Classroom management
- Teaching the activity (preclass preparation)
- Teaching the activity (in-class preparation)
- Crane video activity
- Answers to crane activity questions
- Tiger video activity
- Answers to tiger activity questions
- Answers to general questions for students
- 5
- Who is taking whom for a walk? An observational study of dog-human interactions
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- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Step-by-step instructions
- Results/discussion
- Questions
- References
- Classroom management
- Question answers
- 6
- Movement analysis: expanding the resolution of analysis in animal behavior
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background information
- Purpose
- Methods
- Species selection
- Materials needed, including variations based on species selection
- Step-by-step instructions.
- Learning exercise 1: the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation sphere
- Learning exercise 2: partnerwise orientation
- Learning exercise 3: opposition
- The Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation activity
- Step 1. Create EWMN sheets
- Step 2. Using the video A (aerial view) notate interanimal dynamics
- Results/discussion
- Connections with current literature
- References
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Teaching movement analysis
- Recommendations regarding selection of species and/or setting for exercise
- Ideas for in-class or online discussion
- Modifications to the activity
- Video duration and quality
- Options to lengthen or shorten learning activities
- Areas of potential confusion or difficulty for students
- Recommendations for extensions or continuations for more advanced classes
- Continuation/advanced Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
- Learning exercise 4: types of movement
- Learning exercise 5: notating movement of limb segments
- Activity step 3. Notate movements over time during cricket combat
- Activity step 4. Notate limb movements over time during cricket combat
- Answer key
- 2
- Theory of behavior
- 7
- The evolution of behavior: a phylogenetic approach
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Building and interpreting phylogenetic trees
- Using phylogenies to reconstruct the evolution of behaviors
- Purpose
- Methods
- Activity 1: Whole-class exercise
- Defining character states
- Mapping characters onto the tree
- Results/discussion
- Questions for in-class discussion
- Activity 2: Small-group projects
- References
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation and potential variations
- In-class preparation
- Areas of potential confusion or difficulty for students.
- Another potential modification to the activity
- Answers to the questions for in-class discussion
- Appendix: Using Mesquite
- Creating and editing trees
- Discrete character state reconstruction using parsimony
- 8
- Examining variability in the song of the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Species selection
- Materials needed
- Step-by-step instructions
- Results/discussion
- References
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- In-class preparation
- Recommendations for extensions or continuations for more advanced classes
- Answer key
- 9
- Learning to be winners and losers: agonistic behavior in crayfish
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Materials needed
- Step-by-step instructions
- Results/discussion
- For further discussion
- References
- Classroom management
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- In-class preparation
- Answer key for discussion questions
- Optional extensions
- 10
- Love is blind: investigating the perceptual world of a courting parasitoid
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background information
- Purpose
- Methods and materials
- Species selection
- Part 1. Observing interactions
- Sex identification
- Wasp wrangling techniques
- Initial attraction, baseline activity, and latency
- Part 2. Observing Melittobia sexual behaviors
- Part 3. Determining courtship attraction cues
- Prepare the choice chamber
- Identify, test, and control possible variables
- Standardize terminology and process
- Test potential attraction cues
- Part 4. Results and data analysis
- Write your final report.
- Questions for discussion
- Classroom management
- Teaching the activity
- Background
- Obtaining and preparing materials
- Animal care guidelines
- Planning for sufficient experimental organisms
- Process to use the initial culture(s) directly
- Process to produce all-male cultures
- Process to multiply and/or maintain ongoing mixed-sex Melittobia cultures
- Process to make bioassay chambers
- In-class preparation
- Analytical approach
- Possible extensions/continuations
- Sample observational results
- Part 1. Observing interactions
- Part 2. Observing Melittobia sexual behaviors
- Part 3. Determining courtship attraction cues
- Sample numerical results
- Answer key to "questions for discussion"
- References
- 11
- Are squirrels and ants smart shoppers? How foraging choices may meet current and future needs
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- Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts
- Background
- Purpose
- Methods
- Species selection
- Option 1: Squirrels
- Materials needed (for each team of six to eight students)
- Step-by-step instructions
- Designing your experiment
- Preparing for your experiment
- Setting up your experiment in the field
- Conducting your observations
- Finishing up
- Results/discussion
- Conclusions
- Option 2: Ants (family: Formicidae)
- Materials needed (for each team of two to four students)
- Step-by-step instructions
- Designing your experiment
- Preparing for your experiment
- Setting up your experiment in the field
- Conducting your observations
- Back in the classroom
- Finishing up
- Results/discussion
- Conclusions
- Questions for discussion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Further reading
- Squirrels
- Classroom management/blocks of analysis
- Teaching the activity
- Preclass preparation
- Recommendations regarding selection of species and/or setting for exercise.