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A session-by-session listing of reading assignments and accompanying study questions are included in the table below. Useful general texts and treatises and more specialized books are also listed below.

Most required and recommended readings are from the following texts:

Amazon logo Scott, Graham. Essential Animal Behavior. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005. ISBN: 0632057998.

Amazon logo Alcock, John. The Triumph of Sociobiology. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0195143833.

Amazon logo Lorenz, Konrad Z. King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways. New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1952. ISBN: 0415267471.

Amazon logo ———. The Foundations of Ethology. New York, NY: Springer, 1981. ISBN: 0387816232.

Amazon logo Tinbergen, Niko. Curious Naturalists. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1958. ISBN: 0870234560.


LEC #TOPICSSTUDY QUESTIONSREADINGS
1Animals in Human History

Amateur and Professional Studies
Please do the following:

- Review the book list: How many of these authors/books have you read/seen/heard of? Which books would you suggest adding?
- Review the topics list. We will not have time to deal with all of these topics, but most of them will come up in the readings or the classes. Students are welcome to make additional or alternative suggestions. (PDF)
- Read the outline. (PDF)
2Introduction to Ethology

Tinbergen's Four Questions

Field Studies of Birds
(PDF)Tinbergen, pp. 187-204.

Scott, pp. 1-18.
3-4Lorenz' Jackdaws(PDF)Lorenz. King Solomon's Ring, pp. 128-180.
5Ethology of Geese

Fixed Action Patterns and the Central Nervous System
(PDF)Scott, pp. 19-41.
6Input and Output Sides of Innate Behavior

Motivation
(PDF)Scott, pp. 42-56.
7Motivation (cont.)(PDF)Lorenz. The Foundations of Ethology, pp. 107-135, 153-188, and 235-253.
8Lorenz on Fixed Action Patterns(PDF)Lorenz. The Foundations of Ethology, pp. 107-135, 153-188, and 235-253.
9Lorenz on Innate Releasing Mechanisms(PDF)Lorenz. The Foundations of Ethology, pp. 153-175.
10Models, Hierarchies and Chains of Action Patterns(PDF)Lorenz. The Foundations of Ethology, pp. 176-210 and 235-253.
11Spatial Orientation

Multiple Motivations
(PDF)Lorenz. The Foundations of Ethology, pp. 176-210 and 235-253.
12Interlude: Evolutionary Genetics - Guest Lecturer, R. Lewontin (PDF)Lewontin Handout (PDF)

Scott, pp. 57-92.
13Evolution of Behavior, Genes, Learning(PDF)Scott, pp. 57-92.
14Navigation, Migration, Communication(PDF)Scott, pp. 93-118.
15Communication (cont.)(PDF)Scott, pp. 93-118.
16Foraging(PDF)Scott, pp. 119-142.
17Anti-predator Behavior(PDF)Scott, pp. 143-165.

Schneider, G. E. "Four hours in the life of a Syrian hamster." (Unpublished manuscript.)
18Anti-predator Behavior (cont.)
19Mating and Reproduction, Introduction(PDF)Scott, pp. 166-196.
20Sociobiology Introduction(PDF)Alcock, pp. 3-21.
21Sociobiology Subject Matter(PDF)Alcock, pp. 23-40.
22Genes and Behaviors(PDF)Alcock, pp. 41-56.
23Sociobiology and Science(PDF)Alcock, pp. 57-91.
24-25Discoveries of Sociobiology(PDF)Alcock, pp. 93-127.
26Video: Portions of two programs on the behavior of the domestic cat, showing similarities with larger cat species
27Videos on the Behavior of Apes
28Cultural Determinism and Sociobiology(PDF)Alcock, pp. 129-147.
29Sociobiology and Culture(PDF)Alcock, pp. 149-187.
30Practical Issues in Study of Adaptation(PDF)Alcock, pp. 189-215.
31The Triumph of Sociobiology(PDF)Alcock, pp. 217-223.
32-35Student Project Presentations
36Student Project Presentations (cont.), Review
37Exam Review Session



Useful General Texts and Treatises


Alcock, J. Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach. 8th ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Assoc., 2005.

Barash, D. P. Sociobiology and Behavior. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Elsevier, 1982.

Brown, L., and J. F. Downhower. Analyses in Behavioral Ecology: A Manual for Lab and Field. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Assoc., 1988.

Cockburn, A. An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science, Ltd., 1991.

Amazon logo Darwin, C. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1965. ISBN: 0226136566. (Original 1872.)

Dewsbury, D. A., ed. Contemporary Issues in Comparative Psychology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Assoc., 1989.

Drickamer, L. C., S. H. Vessey and D. Meikle. Animal Behavior: Mechanisms, Ecology and Evolution. 5th ed. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown, 2001.

Gallistel, C. R. The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1980.

———. The Organization of Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.

———, ed. Animal Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. (From Cognition 37, no. 1 and 2.)

Griffin, D. R. Animal Thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Hediger, H. Man and Animal in the Zoo. Translated by G. Vevers and W. Reade. New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1969.

———. Wild Animals in Captivity. New York, NY: Dover, 1964.

Krebs, J. R., and N. B. Davies, eds. Behavioural Ecology, An Evolutionary Approach. 4th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science, Ltd., 1997.

Maxwell, M, ed. The Sociobiological Imagination. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991.

Ristau, C. A., and P. Marler, eds. Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.

Roitblat, H. L. Introduction to Comparative Cognition. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1987.

Amazon logo Wickler, W. The Sexual Code: The Social Behavior of Animals and Men. Translated by F. Garvie. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. ISBN: 0297768123.

Amazon logo Wilson, E. O. Sociobiology, The Abridged Edition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1980. ISBN: 0674816242.



More Specialized Books


Barnett, S. A. The Rat: A Study in Behavior. Chicago, IL: Aldine, 1963.

Byrne, R. W., and A. Whiten. Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Calhoun, J. B. The Ecology and Sociology of the Norway Rat. Public Health Service Publication No. 1008, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962.

Cheney, D. L., and R. M. Seyfarth. How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Amazon logo Corbett, Jim. Jungle Lore. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1953. ISBN: 0195651855.

Amazon logo ———. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1946. ISBN: 0195622553.

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. Human Ethology. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989.

Fossey, D. Gorillas in the Mist. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Goodall, J. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

Hrdy, S. B. The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.

———. Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2000.

———. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection. New York, NY: Pantheon, 1999.

Konner, M. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Owl Books, 2003.

Leyhausen, P. Cat Behavior: The Predatory and Social Behavior of Domestic and Wild Cats. New York, NY: Garland St PM Press, 1979. (English version of his Verhaltenstudien on Katzen.)

Lockley, R. M. The Private Life of the Rabbit. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1964.

Amazon logo Lorenz, K., and P. Leyhausen. Motivation of Human and Animal Behavior: An Ethological View. Translated by B. A. Tonkin. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1973. ISBN: 0442248857.

Max, D. T. "The Literary Darwinists." New York Times Magazine, November 6, 2005.

Ryden, H. Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers. New York, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1989.

Siegel, H. I., ed. The Hamster: Reproduction and Behavior. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1985.

Strum, S. C. Almost Human: A Journey into the World of Baboons. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1987.

Tinbergen, Niko. The Herring Gull's World. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1960.

Von Frisch, Karl. Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1950.

Wrangham, R. W., W. C. McGrew, F. B. M. de Waal, and P. G. Heltne, eds. Chimpanzee Cultures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.


 








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