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Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare
Tierschutzorientierte Ethologie
The course provides basic knowledge of behaviour (mechanisms, control) of farm, lab, pet, zoo & circus animals, and of interactions between behaviour, physiology, genetics/breeding, housing/nutrition and animal use. A special focus is set on the assessment of animal welfare and on legislation based on an appreciation of animal related, ethical, traditional, economical and political values.
Cooperation and Conflict / Evolution of Behaviour
Kooperation und Konkurrenz / Evolution des Verhaltens
Cooperation and Conflict: Introduction to animal behaviour from an evolutionary perspective, with emphasis on social behaviour (theroretical background, proximate mechanisms and ultimate functions). Evolution of Behaviour: How behaviour evolves: nervous systems, learning, communication, hominisation and evolutionary bases of human behaviour.
Evolution of Behavior
Evolution des Verhaltens
This lecture deals with the evolution of behavior. Evolutionary innovations are after-drawn as interactive system processes. Main topics are: Emergence of the nervous systems with a focus on the vertebrates, behavior genetics, learning, communication, behavior among conspecifics, cultural evolution, hominisation and evolutionary bases of human behavior.