Animal Behavior Teaching ResourcesThis is the final assignment given in my Evolution & Behavior class that requires students to use what the have learned about evolution and behavior throughout the semester and apply it to hominins.
This assignment requires students to go to the AMNH and hunt for the answers to the provided questions.
Course content area – Human Evolution & Behavior
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://youtu.be/SO1WccH2_YM?si=dRWXiXMNTcHG-VrE
Segment from Rhythms of Nature documentary showing a young cuckoo chick working to eject the eggs of a reed warbler out of the warbler’s nest (brood parasitism).
Course content area – Parenting Behaviors
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://youtu.be/lFCQltYMLQk?si=SK2vU677HHfslb3i
Video produced by a research lab showing footage from research cameras that captured a deep-sea octopus brooding over her eggs for 4 years. Researchers explain how they were able to make conclusions about their sightings.
Course content area – Parenting behaviors
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzi1qNykIu0&t=41s
Segment from NATURE documentary showing parenting behaviors in jacanas (water bird). In Jacanas the male does the majority of the parenting behaviors.
Course content area – Parenting Behaviors
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOFQri1Tjw
Video segment from BBC special “The mating game” showing penis fencing in hermaphroditic flatworms
Course content area – Diversity of Sexual Behaviors
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://youtu.be/wG9qpZ89qzc?si=EmQGIJiE3sdfMLXj
Segment from BBC “Life in Undergrowth” showing slug mating, an example of simultaneous hermaphroditic reproduction
Course content area – Diversity of Sexual Behaviors
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://youtu.be/1zxJPQlFFTI?si=4cBGnASasB4edoJY
Video segment from Our Planet documentary showing the blue carousel bird mating dance.
Course content area – Mating Systems/Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://youtu.be/Xjq5eEslJhw?si=nPmKqvfbeA8VhmWZ
Clip from NOVA special explaining epigenetics.
Course content area – Explaining behavior/Tinbergen’s 4 questions
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
link: https://youtu.be/7PcteKRA3zs?si=sXJkcQY-Pcfbu8BI
Clip from an old documentary showing how greylag goose egg rolling behavior can be elicited with a variety of stimuli.
Course content area – Explaining behavior/Tinbergen’s 4 questions
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8psKvn0_3w
Video clip from Animal Planet show, “Fooled by Nature” describes how a moth detects and responds to bat echolocation. Used for discussion of Tinbergen’s 4 questions – mechanisms.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
