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Animal Behavior Primary Faculty | Recommended Coursework Animal behavior is arguably the single most interdisciplinary scientific discipline in Biology. As Niko Tinbergen pointed out long ago, to explain any behavior fully requires information about the development of the ability, the physiological mechanisms that underlie the response, the adaptive value of the behavior, and its origins and modification over evolutionary time. Therefore, genetics, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology must all be called upon in the construction of a complete explanation for any behavioral trait. The range of disciplines involved gives the student interested in animal behavior a whole set of options to consider when deciding upon a career in animal behavior. The School of Life Sciences (SOLS) at Arizona State University offers graduate researchers the opportunity for training in all four major contributing disciplines of behavior. The opportunity for graduate students to use a multi-level research approach is particularly strong here because many of the behavioral biologists at ASU employ more than one subdiscipline in their own research. For example, several ASU faculty use explore the fascinating and complex social systems of ants and honeybees from the gene to social interactions. Other members of SOLS consider both the adaptive value of color patterns exhibited by birds and butterflies while also looking at the physiological systems that produce the color patterns. The emphasis at ASU is on an integrative approach to behavioral biology and enables our students to acquire the tools needed to investigate fundamental questions at different levels of biological organizaion and to see the interconnections between the mechanisms of behavior and their evolution. PRIMARY FACULTY
SUGGESTED / TYPICAL COURSE WORK Advanced Animal Behavior
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