Animal Behaviour in Science and Conservation Professional Certificate

What you will learn:
- Understand key concepts of animal behaviour: how animals learn, communicate, reproduce, and interact socially, shaped by natural selection.
- Connect key behavioural concepts to relevant conservation challenges.
- Recognize which behavioural traits can serve as threat and management indicators and use relevant resources to find species-specific information on conservation biology.
- Identify successful examples of behaviour-based conservation management and design a basic species action plan, incorporating a behaviour-based conservation action.

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Animal Behaviour in Conservation (edX)

How can we coexist with wildlife in our rapidly changing human-dominated world? The instructors behind Wageningen University & Research’s high ranking ‘Introduction to Animal Behaviour’ have created a sequel. Equip yourself with the skills to assess human-caused impact on diverse species. Learn to apply behavioural principles to design more [...]

Introduction to Animal Behaviour (edX)

Explore the amazing range and complexity of wild animal behaviour. Discover how animals learn, communicate, find food, avoid predators, and interact socially. Do you want to understand how and why animals behave the way they do, and how we test hypotheses about behaviour scientifically? This biology and life sciences [...]