Study Duration:

This Animal Behaviour online course takes approximately 200 hours to complete, but you have lifetime access to suit your self-paced learning.

Study Method:

100% Online

Start Date:

Enrol whenever you see fit.

Fees & Charges:

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• Introduction: Influences and Motivation
  • What is behaviour?
  • Causes of behaviour (e.g., genetics, learning, external and internal influences)
  • Reactive, active and cognitive behaviour
  • Conditioning

• Genetics and Behaviour
  • Understanding biology
  • Natural selection
  • Genetic variation
  • Development of behaviour
  • Behavioural genetics

• Animal Perception and Behaviour
  • How animals perceive things
  • What stimulates them and how do those stimuli function
  • Instinct
  • Neural control
  • Sensory processes, sight, sound, hearing, etc.

• Behaviour and the Environment
  • Coordination
  • Orientation
  • Homeostasis
  • Acclimatisation
  • Circadian rhythms
  • Biological clocks
  • Reproductive cycles, etc.

• Social Behaviour
  • Animal societies
  • Aggression
  • Social constraints
  • Social order
  • Play
  • Biological clocks
  • Communication

• Learning
  • Instinct and learning
  • Conditioning and learning
  • Extinction and habituation
  • Instrumental learning
  • Reinforcement
  • Operant behaviour
  • Biological and cognitive aspects of learning

• Handling Animals
  • Psychological effects of different handling techniques
  • Training animals (horses, cats, dogs, etc.)
  • The student has a choice of which types of animals to focus on, though a variety will still be covered

• Behavioural Problems
  • Abnormal behaviour (e.g., psychotic, neurotic)
  • Domestication of animals
  • Reducing human contact
  • Reducing human dependence

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