Bucknell University, in Lewisville, Pennsylvania, offers a bachelor's degree major or minor in animal behavior. Instructional courses and corresponding lab courses are offered so that students may see theory applied. Courses include appetite and eating behavior, behavior of social insects and tropical ecology. Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, offers an undergraduate minor in animal behavior. Courses include sex, evolution and behavior, vertebrate zoology and ornithology. Participants can take part in internships at the Buffalo Zoo or Aquarium of Niagara.
Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, offers a neuroscience and animal behavior program for doctoral students in psychology. Courses include animal models of developmental neuropathology, primate social behavior and comparative cognition. Students study behavior as a biological phenomenon. Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, offers a program in animal behavior and conservation for bachelor's degree candidates. Students study animal foraging, seed dispersal, bird breeding and social insects in the strip of rainforest along Brazil's south atlantic coast.
Indiana University Bloomington offers graduate and undergraduate minor and certificate programs in animal behavior. Graduate courses include neural science, evolution and population genetics. Undergraduate programs include bioanthropology, general psychology and behavioral neuroscience. An undergraduate summer research program in animal behavior is open to undergraduates from any college in the U.S. Oklahoma State University offers a paid summer research program to undergraduate students. Students of the program study the biological basis of animal behavior under selected mentors. The program is six weeks and open to students at any U.S. college.
The University of California-Davis offers a residency in animal behavior focused on companion animals for veterinarians. The program emphasizes assessment of abnormal behaviors as a source of medical diagnosis for dogs and cats. During the three-year program, residents will provide supervised medical services for clinic patients and conduct a clinal research project. Applicants must have obtained their doctorate of veterinary medicine and have completed a one-year internship in veterinary medicine. The Denver Zoo in Colorado offers an unpaid internship in its behavioral husbandry program. Qualified interns will be enrolled in or have just graduated from degree programs in biology or psychology.