This unit deals with several key areas of animal behaviour. We investigate animal communication systems, with particular emphasis on how signals are produced, transmitted and received, their information content and how they are sometimes used in social manipulation. We then go on to explore the way in which behaviour develops during the animal's early life and the various influences that shape this development before moving on to examine the genetic regulation of behaviour, how behaviour evolves and how we can use comparative methods to study this process. The rest of the unit is then devoted to behavioural ecology which deals with the role of behaviour in the animal's interactions with... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Bob Wong (Clayton); Professor Mark Sandeman (Gippsland)
Prerequisites: BIO2242 and an additional 6 points from level two BIO units, or ENV2712 and BIO2752
