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.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
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3 months
4 - 6 hours per week
Discounted price: $340.20
Pre-discounted price: $378USD
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Courses in this program
WageningenX's Animal Behaviour in Science and Conservation Professional Certificate
- Introduction to Animal Behaviour
- Animal Behaviour in Conservation
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