Animal Behavior Teaching ResourcesLink: https://youtu.be/xW6qZNcTGwU?si=wCx70HYAErMbbYc2
Video on youtube describing how researchers discovered why rough-skinned newts evolved to be the most toxic.
Video is also available from PBS with edited captions: https://cptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.evo.toxicnewts/toxic-newts/
Course content area – Natural 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
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://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
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/natural-selection-sexual-selection-an-illustrated-introduction/
High-quality videos, learning games, and open lectures covering a multitude of topics related to animal behavior and evolution.
All (or at least most) videos have captions, available transcripts, and are available through Youtube. Under the Videos tab, you can check off certain categories including Evolution, Behavior, Brains + Senses, Migration, etc.
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/media-library/
Some favorite videos:
