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Secondary and Post-16 Resources
This collection from the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) includes a variety of resources for secondary and post-16 students. Each one looks at a particular aspect of animal behaviour. Topics such as ethics in the treatment of animals, behavioural characteristics and statistics are included.
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Parental Behaviour in Burying Beetles
This resource pack focuses on parental behaviour in burying beetles. Part of the video material illustrates the life cycle of burying beetles and shows footage and photographs of each stage. There are also clips which describe some key parental behaviours and introduce some important terms and...
Foraging Behaviour in Leaf-cutting Ants
In this activity students investigate the foraging preferences of leaf-cutting ants. This task is designed for students to collect data by observing film footage of the ants’ behaviour. Students analyse the data using the chi-square test and interpret the outcome in relation to their test statistic. This task...
Parental Behaviour in Nuthatches
This ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) resource pack focuses on parental behaviour in nuthatches, in particular the parent-chick interactions during feeding.
The resource provides a summary of the key events in the rearing of a nuthatch brood and a film of parent-chick interactions during...
Vigilance Behaviour in Barnacle Geese
This resource looks at the vigilance behaviour of barnacle geese grazing in winter. Throughout the winter young geese learn where best to feed and how to survive by foraging with their family groups. When an individual is foraging it has to balance the risk of feeding with the risk of possible predation....