Course: Mammalogy

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Course title Mammalogy
Course code KBI/E118
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
1. úvod (introduction) 2. základy morfologie a anatomie, fylogeneze, evoluce (origins, characteristics, classifications) 3. Monotremata; Metatheria - introduction 4. Metatheria: Didelpimorphia, Paucituberculata, Microbiotheria 5. Notoryctemorphia, Dasyuromorphia, Peramelemorphia, Diprotodontia Tubulidentata, Sirenia, 6. Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Hyracoidea, Proboscidea, Xenarthra (Edentata), Scandentia 7. Dermoptera, Primates, Rodentia, 8. Lagomorpha, Insenctivora, Chiroptera, 9. Pholidota, Carnivora, Cetacea, 10. Perissodactyla, Arthrodactyla 11. reprodukce, fyziologie, echolokace (reproduction, physiology, echolocation) 12. ekologie, zoogeografie (ecology, zoogeography) 13. chování (behavior) 14. problematika ochrany savců, nemoci a zoonózy (conservation etics, disease and zoonoses)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Taxonomy, phylogeny, anatomy, and morphology of mammals in relation with their ecology and behaviour. (Practices: examples of animal life strategies; non-invasive observation - telemetry, camera trap, batdetector, taxidermy animals; skulls x bones).

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp (Wilson and Reeder, Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd edition), http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Mammalia.html informace, zvuky, obrázky, taxonomie, http://www.savci.upol.cz/_uvod.htm web česky, http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mammal.html encyklopedie, jednoduchá, http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5 encyklopedie, http://www.biolib.cz/ české a anglické taxonomické názvy, a další odkazy na výukové a pomocné zdroje informací uvedené ve studijní opoře k předmětu.
  • Feldhamer G.A., Drickamer L.C., Vessey S.H., Merrit J.F., Krajewski C. Mammalogy. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2007.
  • Kardong K. Vertebrates Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. 7th edition. Mc-Graw-Hill, 2014.
  • Kent G.C. Comparative Anatomy of the Verterbrates. 9th edition. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • Pough F. H.,Janis Ch.M., Heiser J.B. Vertebrate Life. 9th edition. Pearson, 2013.
  • Pough F.H., Janis C.M., Heiser J.B. Vertebrate Life. 8th edition. Pearson Benjamin Cummings, USA, 2008.
  • Vaughan T.A., Ryan J.M., Czaplewski N.J. Mammalogy. 6th edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013.


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