Course Summary

Study the ever-interesting field of animal behaviour and develop vital highly desirable employer skills. Our Animal Behaviour course is firmly rooted in the biological sciences and adopts a rigorous scientific approach to the study of the behaviour of animals. While developing your fundamental skills and knowledge, you will also be using them in cutting-edge applied contexts such as conservation and welfare sciences.

As well as exploring the behaviour of animals, you will embrace a wide taxonomic range of species and have a good focus on amphibians and invertebrates. These groups have a very fascinating behaviour in their own right: for example, cockroaches have personalities, and frogs can experience stress! They are also a crucial part of temperate and tropical ecosystems nonetheless – understanding their behaviour is vital for wider habitat conservation.

Whilst the emphasis of the course is on wild animals, you will also study behaviour in more managed settings: e.g. determining husbandry and conservation breeding for endangered animals in zoos; best practice pet welfare and farm animal management. Our staff have real enthusiasm for their subject and bring great expertise from their research fields.