NBID61 · 9 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Biologi
Primate Ethology
Discontinued · replaced by NBID83
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HEM1 · 8 May 2025 · 19 students
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passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
HEM1 · 103 students
Part of 1 programme
Exam
HEM1 Written examination
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Ordinary exams
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Re-exams
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory reports
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Main rounds
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Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Literature assignments and presentation
- 5
- 4
Main rounds
100% passed · 103 students
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- 100%39
- 100%25
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 100% (103 students)
About the course
Aim
The student will increase her/his understanding of the evolutionary origins and ecological determinants of primate behavior. The student will develop a proficiency in finding, evaluating and compiling primary and secondary research literature on a specific topic. The student will learn to design and conduct behavioral observations on primate social communication, and experiments on primate learning, and to perform proper analysis of the data obtained. The student will improve her/his skills in summarizing and communicating the results of her/his own experimental results as well as of literature searches in both written and oral form.
Content
The course is centered around different aspects of primate ethology. Topics include :
- Primate evolution
- Primate social systems
- Primate breeding systems
- Primate cognition
- Intelligence and learning
- Communication with humans
- Altruism and infanticide
- The sensory world of primates
- Examiner
- Matthias Laska
- Scheduled hours
- 184 h
- Main field of study
- Biologi