PřF:Bi8130 Ethology - Course Information
Bi8130 Ethology
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Jan Zukal, Dr., MBA (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jan Zukal, Dr., MBA
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Jan Zukal, Dr., MBA
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Tue 13:00–14:50 B11/306
- 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
- there are 15 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, students should be able to understand and to be able to explain these topics:
History and methods of studying the animal behaviour. Coordination schemes, motivation-stimulus-response, nature and nurture, appetitive behaviour, releasing mechanisms, consummatory act, conflict situations. Behaviour patterns, circadian rhythms, communication. Play behaviour, imprinting, habituation, associative learning (conditioning), insight. Brief information on sociobiology, behavioural ecology and applied ethology. - Syllabus
- History of studying animal behaviour, physiological, psychological and ethological cues, methods. Patterns of behaviour, behavioural system hierarchical structure, innate (stereotype) and adaptive behaviour, orientation patterns, kinesis, taxis, piloting and navigation. Fixed action patterns, appetence behaviour, consummatory actions, variability and criticism of "instincts". Major behavioural patterns: foraging behaviour and related phenomena, protection and anti-predatory behaviour, care of own body, reproductive behaviour. Social behaviour, animal societies, agonistic behav. and other mechanisms of social integration. Biocommunication, signal structures and functions, major communication channels: chemical (pheromones), tactile-mechanical, acoustic, optic, other; bee dances. Special signalling (echolocation), ritualization of behaviour. Antagonistic motivations, displacement activities. Play and curiosity behaviour, exploration, imprinting, imitation. Associative learning, classical and operant conditioning, trial-and-error learning, insight. Ontogeny a phylogeny of behaviour, traditions, cultural evolution. Rhythmicity of behaviour, circadian and other biorhythms, torpidity, hibernation estivation sleep. Introduction to sociobiology and behav. ecology, modelling. Applied ethology.
- Literature
- DRICKAMER, Lee C., Stephen H. VESSEY and Doug MEIKLE. Animal behavior :mechanisms, ecology, evolution. 4th ed. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1996, 447 s. ISBN 0-697-13642-6. info
- FRANCK, Dierk. Etologie. 2. přeprac. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1996, 323 s. ISBN 80-7066-878-4. info
- GAISLER, Jiří. Úvod do etologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989, 148 s. info
- Manning A. & Dawkins M. S., 1992: An introduction to animal behaviour. Cambridge Univ. Press, 196 pp.
- VESELOVSKÝ, Zdeněk. Chováme se jako zvířata? Vyd. 1. Praha: Panorama, 1992, 244 s. ISBN 80-7038-240-6. info
- Veselovský Z., 2001: Obecná ornitologie. Academia Praha, 357 s.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures.
- Assessment methods
- oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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