NBID83 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1F) · Biologi
Primate Biology
Active · next start VT 2027
100%
passed the latest ordinary exam
HEM1 · 6 May 2026 · 19 students
100%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
HEM1 · 19 students
Part of 1 programme
Exam
HEM1 Home assignment
- 5
Ordinary exams
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Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 5: 100% (19 students)
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory reports
- 5
- 4
Main rounds
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Later rounds
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- Get 4 or 5: 100% (19 students)
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Literature assignment
- 5
- 4
Main rounds
100% passed · 19 students
- 100%19
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 100% (19 students)
About the course
Aim
After the completion of the course the student will be able
- to explain the evolutionary origins and ecological determinants of primate behavior
- to design and conduct behavioral observations on primate social behavior, and experiments on primate cognition, and to perform proper analysis of the data obtained
- to summarize and communicate orally and in written the results of her/his own experimental results and of literature assignments on primate biology specific topics
Content
The course is centered around different aspects of primate biology. Topics include:
- Sensory biology
- Diet
- Social systems
- Breeding systems
- Cognition
- Communication among primates and with humans
- Altruism and infanticide
- Examiner
- Matthias Laska
- Scheduled hours
- 184 h
- Main field of study
- Biologi