Animal Behavior Screencasts

An examination of "lumping" (whole-grain behavioral analysis) versus "splitting" (finer-grain analysis of individual components of a whole behavior pattern), with examples of each.

An examination of animal behavior observational research settings based on the degree of control by the investigator, with five points along the continuum and examples of each.

This final "history" episode examines neuroethology, including scanning technology, optogenetics, and behavioral ecology.

Significant influences on the study of animal behavior from Zing-Yang Kuo, T. C. Schneirla, Daniel S. Lehrman, Douglas Spalding, Jakob von Uexküll, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and Karl von Frisch.

Contributions by C. Lloyd Morgan, Edward Thorndike, Willard Small, Wolfgang Köhler, John B. Watson, and Karl Lashley, in relation to general principles of animal behavior and later studies.

An examination of Ernst Haeckel's "biogenetic law" (ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny) and Wilhelm Preyer's contribution to behavioral embryology.

Hans Bol's mobbing engravings, Descartes' mechanistic views, Leeuwenhoek's microscope coupled with preformation vs. epigenesis, Linneaus, C. F. Wolff, and Karl von Baer contributed to the history of animal behavior.

A brief examination of contributions to the study of animal behavior by Aristotle, Ptolemy II, Zeno, Pliny the Elder, and the Man-Brute Dichotomy of Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Scientists as well as hobbyists and enthusiasts from a variety of fields and interests have been interested in animal behavior. These include agricultural scientists, wildlife biologists, conservationists, and other scientists from a variety of disciplines.

A brief introduction describing what this screencast series is about.