Animal Behavior Teaching ResourcesLink: 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
Link – https://youtu.be/JrzenOfcmBo?si=sKygkAAXPNgIFw31
Video segment from BBC Earth special “Life in the freezer” showing male elephant seals competing for access to mates.
Course content area – Sexual Selection
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
