Animal Behavior Teaching ResourcesLink: 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
Article by Travis Dixon, IB Psychology webpage, describing the Sweaty T-shirt study and the role of MHC genes. Includes references and critical thinking questions.
Assigned to support material covered in a Sexual Selection class. Assigned along with For gay men, an attraction to a different kind of scent
Course content area – Sexual Selection or Human Evolution & Behavior
Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)
Campus – Hunter College
New York Times article, by Nicholas Wade, describes research that is looking at patterns of brain activity when queer individuals smell pheromones of males and females.
I assign this article along with the famous t-shirt sniff article in which heterosexual females sniff the t-shirts of males and rate their attractiveness – Key Study: “The Sweaty T-shirt Study” (Wedekind et al. 1995)
Course content area – Sexual Selection or Human Evolution & Behavior
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
