PřF:Bi9170 Mammalogy - Course Information
Bi9170 Mammalogy
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Řehák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Řehák, Ph.D.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Řehák, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 17. 9. to Fri 14. 12. Wed 14:00–15:50 D31/238
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Bi6083 Bakalářská státní závěrečná zkouška z ekologické a evoluční biologie &&( Bi2090 Verteb. phylog. & divers. || SOUHLAS )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Ecology (programme PřF, D-BI4)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology (programme PřF, N-EB)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Biology (programme PřF, N-CH)
- Zoology (programme PřF, D-BI4)
- Zoology (programme PřF, N-EB)
- Course objectives
- Synapsid Amniotes and the phylogeny of Mammals, main fossil groups. Morphology, ecology, behaviour, scientific as well as general value of recent mammals. Survey of the world mammalian fauna according to the phylogenetic and molecular taxonomy. Distribution patterns and major ecological and behavioural adaptations of selected (model) species. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand and interpret the status of mammals as the most advanced animal group including the essentials of man as a mammal; make reasoned decisions about the conservation of mammals and their habitats and about the managements to breed mammals (preserves, zoos, laboratories).
- Syllabus
- Mammalian characteristics and comparison to other vertebrate and chordate animals. Phylogenetic (cladistic) analysis and mammalian taxonomy. Essentials of morphology: skin, hair, mammary glands, skull, axial skeleton, limbs and girdles, muscular system. Mammalian brain, endocrine secretion, neuro-humoral steering. Sense organs, macro- and microsmatic mammals, vision, hearing echo- and hydrolocation. Digestive system, mammalian teeth, tribosphenic molar structure and its evolution, stomach and intestine, herbivore specializations (foregut and hindgut fermenters). Respiratory system, sound production. Mammalian heart, circulatory system, endothermy. Urogenital system, three major types of mammalian reproduction, placental types, pre- and postnatal ontogeny, altricial and precocial young, parent-clingers. Mammalian ecology, niche, major ecological factors. Coping with cold, hypothermia, hibernation and related phenomena. Ecology of reproduction, population ecology, fluctuation in numbers, cycles and overcrowding, r-K selection. Function of mammals in ecosystems, biodiversity, endangerment, conservation of mammals and their habitats. Behaviour, mammals as models in reflexology, behaviorism, classical European ethology, sociobiology and behavioural ecology. Sexual, social and other systems of behaviour, play, imprinting, conditioning and other adaptive processes. Mammalian phylogeny, synapsid origins, mesozoic mammals, cenozoic radiation of therians. Survey of recent mammals: Prototheria, Matatheria, Eutheria (Placentalia).
- Literature
- ANDĚRA, Miloš. Svět zvířat. ptakořitní, vačnatci, chudozubí, hmyzožravci, tany, letuchy, letouni, primáti. Illustrated by Pavel Dvorský - Viera Postníková. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 1997, 143 s. ISBN 8000005417. info
- ANDĚRA, Miloš. Svět zvířat. šelmy, luskouni, hrabáči, hlodavci. Illustrated by Pavel Dvorský - Viera Postníková. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 1999, 147 s. ISBN 8000006774. info
- ANDĚRA, Miloš and Jaroslav ČERVENÝ. Savci. Illustrated by Pavel Dvorský - Viera Postníková. 1. vyd. Praha: Albatros, 2000, 153 s. ISBN 8000008297. info
- ROČEK, Zbyněk. Historie obratlovců : evoluce, fylogeneze, systém. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2002, 511 s. ISBN 8020008586. info
- Mitchell-Jones, A. J., Amori, G., Bogdanowicz, W., Kryštufek, B., Reijnders, P. J. H., Spitzenberger, F., Stubbe, M., Thissen, J. B. M., Vohralík, V. & Zima, J., 1999: The atlas of European mammals. Academic Press, London, San Diego, 484 pp.
- Baillie, J. & Groombridge, B. (eds.), 1996: 1996 IUCN red list of threatened animals. IUCN, Gland, 368 + 10 pp.
- ANDĚRA, Miloš. České názvy živočichů. Praha: Národní muzeum, 1999, 147 s. ISBN 80-7036-098-4. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- oral examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: PS sudých let - 2014, 2016, 2018...
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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