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Practical Skills In The Study of Animal Behaviour [Terry Ord]

These videos are associated with two animal behaviour practicals. Each practical is designed to be self-directed and delivered online and generally takes 1-2 hours to complete, depending on the pace of the individual student. Practicals are appropriate for any university course on animal behaviour, behavioural ecology or ethology, regardless of level (e.g., 1st, 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate, or as a basic intro to postgraduate). The practical manuals and other associated content are available free from Terry Ord at UNSW (t.ord [AT] unsw.edu.au). These include detailed, easy to follow step-by-step instructions for students, excel templates for students to fill out for each activity, which can then be uploaded in order to release a set of solutions (also available).

Practical 1 is designed to teach students how to observe and score behaviour using a scaffolding approach that progressively introduces students to increasingly more complex sequences of behaviour over three stages. The examples used are free-living Australian eastern water dragons and eastern grey kangaroos. The techniques taught include developing a behavioral repertoire, ethogram and time budget, and introduces continuous focal sampling of individuals and scan sampling of groups, and compares and contrasts the pros and cons of each depending on the questions being investigated. The practical finishes with a hypothesis driven test of the adaptive function of play fighting in juvenile kangaroos.