Animal Behavior Teaching Resourceshttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/science/ocean-marine-noise-pollution.html
NY Times article about the impact of anthropogenic noise on ocean environments.
Included as an optional reading to support an in-class discussion when covering animal communication.
Course content area – Communication
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
Washington Post article by Eliot Schrefer discusses the impact of human culture on the study of animal sexual behaviors and the lack of understanding of how a behavior that does not lead to offspring can still improve an animal’s fitness. Article is available to listen to.
Used as a pre-class reading to prepare for a class discussing the diversity of sexual behaviors found in the animal kingdom.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1-JQTiZGc
Video on youtube from BBC Earth showing an alternative mating strategy in cuttlefish.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
A simulation (applet) that allows you to plot the population size, number of generations, and original allele frequency, then a figure populates to show the breakdown of the genotypes within the population.
Used to support Exploring Genetic Drift with Tuco tucos in-class activity.
Course content area – Population Genetics & Mechanisms of Evolution – Genetic drift, mutation, gene flow, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
This webpage from, Understanding Evolution (UC Museum of Paleontology), explains how to interpret relatedness from a phylogenetic tree.
Included to supplement class material on phylogenetic trees.
Course content area – Evolution Basics – history (Lamark, Darwin), evidence (fossils, homology)
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2021.622811
Krause, A. & Nawroth, C. (2021). Animal emotions — Do animals feel as we do?. Front. Young Minds. 9(622811). doi: 10.3389/frym.2021.622811
Article with linked sources and a list of references describing the basics of emotions and how they are measured in animals.
Assigned as a pre-class reading to introduce students to the study of emotions in non-human animals. While intended for a younger audience this article is appropriate for most readers including CUNY students.
Course content area – Emotions
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/vogelkop-bowerbird-decorates-his-bower-with-flowers/
High-quality video with transcript and captions from The Cornell Lab – Bird Academy. The video shows a male bowerbird building his bower and a female assessing the bower.
Shown as an example in class when discussing different theories of mate choice while covering intersexual selection.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/natural-selection-sexual-selection-an-illustrated-introduction/
High-quality video with captions and transcript introducing sexual selection by The Cornell Lab – Bird Academy.
Assigned as a video to watch before a class on Sexual Selection.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/fate-nf.html
NOVA article (PBS) by Nipam Patel covers the role of gene switches in evolution including Hox genes.
Assigned as a pre-class reading for a class on Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics
Course content area – Raw Material – DNA, genes, variation, inheritance, epigenetics
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
https://cptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.peacock/tale-of-the-peacock/
PBS video segment from Evolution: Why sex? with Marion Petrie describing her work about mate choice and attraction in peafowl.
Assigned as a video to watch before a class on Sexual Selection.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
