Welcome
The Davis campus has a distinguished history of teaching and research in the life sciences including animal behavior. The Animal Behavior Graduate Group is an interdepartmental program in which faculty members in the biological sciences from several departments, schools, and colleges participate. Members of the Group employ a wide range of animal species in their research as well as a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches.
In addition to facilities in the departments represented by the faculty members listed on this site, resources available to students include the California Regional Primate Research Center, the Center for Neuroscience, Bodega Marine Laboratory, and the agricultural field stations.
Campus libraries house extensive collections of biological and animal behavior literature. The Animal Behavior Graduate Group offers the Ph.D. degree. All specializations emphasize adaptive and evolutionary aspects of animal behavior. The program trains students for teaching and research in areas related to a variety of traditional disciplines including anthropology, animal science, ecology, entomology, neurobiology, psychology, physiology, veterinary science, wildlife biology, and zoology.