How animals behave is crucial to their survival and reproduction. The application of new molecular tools such as DNA fingerprinting and genomics is causing a revolution in the study of animal behaviour, while developments in computing and image analysis allow us to investigate behaviour in ways never previously possible.
In this Talks at Google event, Dr Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Associate at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University and visiting lecturer at University College London, discusses how our study of animal behaviour has developed over time. With examples including 'zombie cockroaches' and elephants that are scared of bees, Dr Wyatt considers how animal behaviour has evolved, how behaviours develop in each individual, and how we can explain collective animal behaviour.
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