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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

ZOOLOGY 425
Course Description

Explore how organisms make decisions and how these decisions affect their survival. These decisions are key aspects of an organism's life, e.g. foraging behavior, mating behavior, anti-predator behavior, and habitat selection. Approaches these questions with the perspective that understanding the proximal and ultimate basis of behavior requires understanding the ecological and evolutionary context of behavior.

Prerequisites
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
2.65

-7.76% from Historical

Completion Rate
86.11%

-4.3% from Historical

A Rate
16.67%

-29.15% from Historical

Class Size
36

-58.23% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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