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| Udgave: |
Forår 2013 NAT |
| ECTS points: |
7,5 |
| Point: |
7,5 |
| Blokstruktur: |
3. blok |
| Skemagruppe: |
A |
| Institutter: |
Biologisk Institut |
| Uddannelsesdel: |
Kandidat niveau |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Torben Dabelsteen, tdabelsteen@bio.ku.dk 3532 1305 |
| Andre undervisere: |
Thorsten Balsby, Leif Lau Jeppesen samt undervisningsassistenter |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet Forår 2013 NAT |
| Undervisnings- periode: |
Uge 6-15 |
| Undervisnings- form: |
2 lectures and 2 discussion confrontations of two hours each plus one practical of four hours per week for a total of six weeks, followed by an individual project consisting of a 5 page essay during the seventh week of the course. The course ends with an individual oral defence of the project and an oral examination on the rest of the course contents. |
| Indhold: |
Levels of socialization, social organization in time and space. Game theory and evolutionarily stable strategies. Physiological background of social behaviour. Cognition. Mating systems. Social processes at the pair, family and group level. Cooperation and conflict. Multimodal signalling, reception and interpretation of communicative behaviour under constraints, sensory ecology. Communication networks and neighbourhood dynamics. |
| Målbeskrivelse: |
To give the students in-depth knowledge of behavioural and communicative processes fundamental for animal social behaviour and organisation.
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- explain animal social behaviour and organization in terms of function, mechanism, ontogeny and evolution;
- present in details the connecting and organizing function of signals for animal social behaviour and explain the evolutionary forces that shape signals and signaling;
- explain the relative effects of physical, biological and social environments on individual behaviour;
- propose alternative hypotheses to explain a behaviour, design an appropriate experiment to test them and suggest predictions;
- measure behaviour using different methods and extensively analyse the data obtained;
- critically discuss results with respect to the hypothesis tested, place them in a broad general context, link to other behaviour issues and propose further lines of enquiry;
- explain the costs and benefits of different experimental designs, data collection and analysis methods and identify sources of error;
- present her/his work (in oral and written form) at a level approaching the scientific standard;
- extract, present and critically discuss in detail the results of a scientific article about animal behaviour;
- identify and explain strengths and weaknesses in scientific articles, suggest solutions to the weaknesses and further enquiries inspired by the strengths.
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| Lærebøger: |
1. Barnard, C. 2004. Animal Behaviour – Mechanisms, Development, Function and Evolution. Pearson, Prentice Hall, Harlow, England.
2. Compendium with original literature and other material compiled by the teaching staff, which will be available at a cost. |
| Tilmelding: |
Der er tilmelding til modulerne i Blok 3 og Blok 4 i perioden 15. november - 1. december. Tilmelding sker via Selvbetjeningen |
| Faglige forudsætninger: |
We recommend that the course participants have basic knowledge about evolutionary biology and animal physiology, for instance obtained by following the courses "Evolutionsbiologi" and "Menneskets fysiologi". |
| Eksamensform: |
Essay, defence and a 30-minute oral examination will be judged in combination and rated following the 7-point grading scale. External censorship. Re-examination is oral. |
| Eksamen: |
Aflevering af opgave d. 4. april 2013 og mundtlig prøve d. 11-12. april 2013.
Reeksamen: Mundtlig prøve d. 27. juni 2013. |
| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
Social adfærd og kommunikation |
| Bemærkninger: |
Attendance and active participation in at least 80% of discussion confrontations and practicals, including one oral presentation of the recommended literature, are compulsory.
The course is part of the qualification profile Ecology and Evolution. For all courses of the qualification profiles, see Course Portal for Department of Biology.
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| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
26/10-2012 |