SYLLABUS  ANTHRO B206 PRIMATE ZOO OBSERVATION LABORATORY
   SUMMER II 2000   Dr Bob Mucci, instructor and van driverOffice: Lindenwood 231
      Office hours:Tues & Thurs 3:00 TO 6:00 — other days by appointment
     Office Tel 980-6607 (voice mail also).  You may call me at home if necessary:  (773) 929-0456
If you can't find me, or need to leave a message or a paper, go to the Sociology & Anthropology Main Office:
Lindenwood 214 (tel 980-6789). You can contact me by E-mail:  RMUCCI@INDIANA.EDU (IUN) or 
RMUCCI@UIC>EDU (home)     The IUN Anthro home page is at http://www.iun.indiana.edu/anthro/ 

This course is an optional ancillary of ANTH B106/B466, but may be taken independently.  There is a $50
transportation fee.

Course Objectives: to study the biology and behavior of live primates, and to learn formal observational techniques.
There is no required book for this course, but you are expected to study up on primates;Suggested Readings:
Bromley, Monkeys, Apes, and other primates (available as optional book for $4 at IUN Bookstore - if you never read
this for A103, buy it and read it NOW) 
Paterson, Primate Behavior Workbook
Falk, The Complete Introduction to Primate Diversity
Rowe, Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
Strier, Karen Primate Behavioral Ecology 
Walker's Mammals of the World (found in the reference section of library) 
Time-Life Nature, Primates. (On reserve)
ZooBooks (several on apes on reserve)
Collinge, Intro to Primate Behavior
Preston-Mafham, Primates of the World
Small, Female Choices
Richard, Primates in Nature
Napier, Natural History of the Primates
Smuts, Primate Societies
Other Requirements: visit the zoos several times; there will be some discussions as we observe; you also must
write reports of your independent observations, and participate in one or two formal group observations..
Field Trips: Meet at the IUN police station at the north end of Tamarack at 8:30 am; Van returns after 6 pm.
Bring binoculars, note pad, audio tape recorder, comfortable shoes.  The fee you paid covers the van, gas, and half
a double (2 bed) room in Cincinnati (single room is extra cost); it does NOT include admission to the zoos, nor food.
Course Dates: Saturdays only except for Sat/Sun Aug 5/6.
July 8: Field museum, Lincoln Park Zoo no admission charges.
July 15: Brookfield Zoo (behind the scenes of ape house, timed observation of baboons)
July 22 off week
July 29: Racine (free) and Milwaukee Zoos (return 9 pm)
August 5 & 6: Sat: Michigan City, South Bend Zoos; Sun: Cincinnati Zoo; return very late.

Assignments: (each assignment is due one week later.
July 8: Museum: lecture only; zoo: lecture; you will have an A105 zoo report instruction book, please go thru the
motions of looking at everything it tells you to observe, but the only item you have to record is to carefully observe
and record the locomotion of any two different species in the Brach primate house.  Write it up as a 3 to 4 page reprt
including a comparison of the two.
July 15: you will participate in a formal timed observation of baboons; you will watch one animal for one hour, and
turn in the ID forms and record of his behavior.  
July 29: you will report on what you observe about bonobo social/sexual behavior.
Aug 5/6: no formal report, but I will be asking questions about what you are looking at.

If you miss a trip, that takes a full letter off your grade, BUT I will allow you to go to that zoo on your own as a make
up; you cannot pass the course if you miss two trips without doing any make up trips.