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Animal Behavior Screencasts

Screencasts (video podcasts) hosted by Dr. David B. Miller Professor Emeritus at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A. These screencasts were formerly used in Dr. Miller's Animal Behavior ... Read more

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Development: Episode 9: Early Experience (FINAL EPISODE IN THIS SERIES)

Development: Episode 9: Early Experience (FINAL EPISODE IN THIS SERIES)

Early experience greatly affects behavioral development. Here we look at different ways of experimentally addressing ho... Read more

12 Nov 2018

29mins

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Development: Episode 8: Reformulation of Imprinting

Development: Episode 8: Reformulation of Imprinting

Konrad Lorenz’s original imprinting question concerned species recognition in relation to mate selection. This reformul... Read more

5 Nov 2018

10mins

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Development: Episode 7: Problems with Imprinting

Development: Episode 7: Problems with Imprinting

Imprinting is a powerful phenomenon, but the manner in which it is studied experimentally is sometimes questionable, ran... Read more

31 Oct 2018

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Development: Episode 6: Critical Periods

Development: Episode 6: Critical Periods

The concept of critical periods is often associated with imprinting as well as other phenomena ranging from experimental... Read more

22 Oct 2018

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Development: Episode 5: Imprinting

Development: Episode 5: Imprinting

An examination of sexual and filial imprinting (social attachments) from an historical perspective.

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Development: Episode 4: Behavioral Embryology

Development: Episode 4: Behavioral Embryology

Important events occur before birth or hatching, both in terms of embryonic movements and the influences of incoming sen... Read more

8 Oct 2018

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Development: Episode 3: Experience

Development: Episode 3: Experience

The ways that experience, both prenatal and postnatal, can affect behavioral development can often times be obvious (lin... Read more

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Development: Episode 2: Nature-Nurture Controversy

Development: Episode 2: Nature-Nurture Controversy

Developmental systems and a consideration of evidence inconsistent with genetic determinism, such as the C-value paradox... Read more

24 Sep 2018

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Development: Episode 1: General Conceptual Issues

Development: Episode 1: General Conceptual Issues

To paraphrase animal behaviorists T. C. Schneirla and Niko Tinbergen, an understanding of animal behavior necessitates a... Read more

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Communication: Episode 16: Ape Language Controversy

Communication: Episode 16: Ape Language Controversy

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