University of Leeds (UOL)

Workings of the nervous system and will cover all major aspects of neuroscience from a basic level. The development and evolution of the nervous system through the anatomy and physiology of neurons, exploring sensory / motor systems and culminating in discussion of higher cognitive functions.

- Animal production systems in the UK and Europe, sheep, pigs, poultry, cattle. - Diet assessment and formulation. - Experimental approach and design in Animal Science. - Systems for sheep, beef, pig, poultry and dairy production and key issues related to these such as animal welfare; animal health; animal breeding and grassland management.

Consider the relationship between nutrition and the associated metabolic response with regard to the development of the neonate, lactation, and growth. Development of the neonate will consider the relationship between nutrition and the animal's immune system and antioxidant systems. Under the heading growth will be considered the influence of an animal's nutrition on meat quality, and the ways in which meat quality can be manipulated via the animal diet to meet consumer requirements. The ph...

How the behaviour of animals is adapted to their natural environment. By taking a behavioural ecology approach, the module integrates thinking about behaviour, ecology and evolution to understand how an animal’s behaviour is adapted. The course will focus on animal behaviour from sex to death, covering topics that may include: sexual selection, sperm competition, social learning, sex allocation, parental care, cooperative breeding and senescence. They will also explore how an animal’s behavi...

- The Phanerozoic: what happened; - The Cambrian Explosion; - The New Phylogeny; - Extinction and punctuated equilibrium; - Animal Origins: The evolution of multicellularity; - The axis-formers: The origin and evolution of bilaterial symmetry; - Major radiations: invertebrates; - Major radiations: vertebrates; - Adaptation: Natural and Sexual Selection; - Speciation; - History of evolutionary thought.

How the behaviour of animals evolves by natural selection, towards optimal solutions, highlighting basic principles and processes. - Introduction and methodology; - Levels of selection and the Comparative Method; - Development of behaviour: role of the environment, learning, role of genes; - Orientation, Navigation, Migration; - Optimal foraging, group foraging, foraging behaviour and social structure; - Information transfer and communication; - Competition and territoriality; - Predat...

Cooperative behaviour and altruism

Cooperative behaviours

The way in which animals migrate and navigate

Diverse types of mating systems in nature