As a Student of Animal Behavior, It Is Essential That

As a student of animal behavior, it is essential that you distinguish between correlation and causation. What types of information can be gleaned from a correlation between two events? How can you establish whether the first event causes the second to occur? As an optional exercise, devise an imaginary correlation between two events relevant to animal behavior. Present this discovery to your classmates and formulate several alternative causal hypotheses; that is, what else could have caused this event to occur? Finally, develop an experiment or multiple experiments to test among these alternatives.