Animal Behaviour

About this programme

Combine Biology and Psychology to measure and understand the behaviour of wild animals, the behaviour and welfare of companion, domestic, and captive exotic animals, and explore links between behaviour and applications such as conservation. Animal Behaviour is an interdisciplinary degree and field of science that examines why animals do the things they do, and what consequences their actions have for their survival and impacts on the wider ecosystem. Behaviour is especially fascinating as it is highly flexible, it gives us some of the most mesmerising phenomena in the natural world, and feedback from behavioural decisions in turn drives evolutionary processes. Our Animal Behaviour degree differs from our Zoology degree in that it includes courses from Psychology in the first two years. The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer eligible self-funded international on-campus undergraduate students a £6,000 scholarship for every year of their programme. Each year you take a selection of compulsory courses and optional courses that can be chosen from those on offer across the institution. The first two years lay a foundation for the more specialised third and fourth years. All students take eight courses in the first year. On this degree you take seven compulsory courses and one elective, which can be selected from any discipline in the university. This course, which is prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students and articulating students who are in their first year at the University, is studied entirely online, takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete and can be t