This lecture introduces BIO 331 (Animal Behavior) and its policies. Most of the lecture covers administrative and structural aspects of the course, but in the middle there is an examination of the "stotting" behavior that occurs in many ungulates where students propose different hypotheses for the phenomenon. The stotting example is meant to motivate the kinds of things that will go on in the course.
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