AN306
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Primatology
Course Subject Code
AN
Course Number
306
Course Long Title
Primatology
Status
Active
Division
Social Sciences
Department
Unit(s)
1
Unit(s) Max
3
Schedule Type
Block Seminar
Instruction Mode
Traditional
Grade Modes
Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit
Course Attributes
CPI, WRDI
Course Description
This field and lab-based course exposes students to a range of methods for investigating the ecology, behavior, and biology of living primates. Techniques for assessing habitat quality and monitoring resource availability will be examined. Using a comparative approach, students will examine the anatomy of living primates in order to understand how physical adaptations influence behavior. Standard procedures for collecting and analyzing behavioral data on living primates will be explored. Inferences about behaviors of earliest humans made from our understanding of contemporary non-human primates.
Required Requisites
COI & AN 207