Date

Morning's

Lecture / Project

Afternoon's

Lecture / Project

Evening's

Group Discussion

Student's Suggested Night Activity

Monday 6/2

Arrival at noon

Overview of aims and methods of course

Orientation to the habitat

Introductions (students and lecturers)

Movie (Signals for Survival)

Tuesday

6/3

Darwinism & Living in Groups -- PWS

Do animals behave for the "good for the species " or "good for the individual"?

Project assignment 1

Levels of Selection          --TDS

Can every behavior be described from a "gene's eye view"?

Project assignment 2

Discuss topical project assignments

Write-up the day's project assignments (1,2)

Brainstorm individual's project

Wednesday 6/4

Levels of Analysis & Hypothesis Testing -- PWS

Project assignment 3

Territoriality: Defendable Resources -- JSS

Project assignment 4

Discuss topical project assignments

Write-up the day's project assignments (3,4)

Brainstorm individual's projects

Thursday

6/5

Communication Theory -- TDS

Mating Systems and Mongamy -- JSS

Project assignment 6

Discuss topical project assignments

Write-up the day's project assignments (5, 6)

Brainstorm individual's project

Friday

6/6

Animal Cognition --TDS

Group Project

Kinship and Kin Recognition -- JSS Infanticide -- PWS

Individual project

Discuss topical project assignments

March of the Penguins (movie)

Saturday

6/7

Individual projects

Individual projects

Discuss observations

Sunday

6/8

Individual projects

Individual projects

Prepare for oral presentation

Oral presentations of individual projects

(powerpoint & projector available)