Animal Behavior

The discipline of animal behavior covers a wide range of topics and a diversity of species, addressing questions of behavioral development, mechanisms, adaptive function, private experience, and evolution. The Animal Behavior faculty focus on these five questions, and on applied problems, in field, laboratory, and zoo settings. In taxa ranging from lizards, snakes, turtles, birds, and elephants, to chimpanzees and humans, we conduct studies on applied behavior analysis in zoo mammals and conservation strategies, behavior genetics, communication, courtship interactions, developmental processes, discrimination learning, food selection, mate selection, play, sensory processes, and social interactions.

The Animal Behavior research area is part of the Experimental Program. Interested students should apply to the Experimental Program for graduate studies.

For more information, contact Connie Ogle at 865-974-3328 or cjogle@utk.edu

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Department of Psychology
Austin Peay Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996

Phone: 865-974-3328
Fax: 865-974-3330