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Aims to develop students’ skills in the observation of social behaviour by looking at examples of conflict and co-operation that arise from group living. 1: Focuses on the social behaviour of rhesus...
Conflict is common in the animal world; it might be over food, mates or territory. Disputes do not always end in fights; the occurrence and intensity of aggressive behaviours is directly related to the costs...
Communication in the human world is dominated by vision and by speech and hearing over a very narrow band of sound frequencies. In contrast, many animals have evolved methods of communication and prey...
Discusses ways of making sense of the behaviour patterns displayed by animals. Careful observation makes it possible to record and describe behaviour patterns and, according to Dr Niko Tinbergen, the first...
Filmed in Svalbard and Northern Norway in winter and summer, the programme compares two types of reindeer, ‘Rangifer tarrandus’ with the Svalbard sub-species, ‘Rangifer tarrandus platyrhynchus’. In...
Shows a feral population of peafowl filmed at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire, and a wild population at two tiger reserves in Rajasthan in Northern India. The courtship behaviour of peacock and peahen is shown...
Discusses stress, showing stressful behaviour in robins, farm animals in pens, and a widow at her husband’s grave. Analyses stress in behavioural and control theory terms, and looks at some of the...
A series of experiments illustrating aspects of behaviour or neurobiology in an interactive way: 1) newt courtship; 2) water regulation (rats); 3) schedule-induced polydipsia; 4) thermoregulation; 5)...
Alan Goodall observes three different families of mountain gorillas in their tropical rainforest environment of the Virunga volcanoes region of Rwanda.
Using an example of the visually directed prey-catching behaviour of the common toad, shows by which criteria objects are distinguished to trigger this behaviour, and how this information is processed in...
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