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Course details
Course code: BHS10052f11
Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: BIOLOGY OF WILD AND DOMESTICATED CANIDE
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Filistowicz
Language of instruction: Polish / English


Learning outcomes: Student will gain theoretical knowledge in a field of issues connected with a life of wild canide, protection, behavior in a herd, reproduction and offspring raising, organization of modern methods of migration studies and their application in population protection.

Competences: Completion of the course will allow to take up a work in zoological garden, and to assess biological efficiency of animals.

Prerequisites: Zoology, animal physiology, genetic, basis of animal feeding

Course content: Exterieur and performance characteristics of dogs and wild canide, rulet of breeding work running, genetic and environmental features influencing life of canide, dogs origins, ways of orientation, migrations of canide, law status, protection and reintroduction of wild canide.

Recommended literature: Kuźniewicz J., Kuźniewicz G.; Psy w służbie człowieka, Wydawnictwo AR we Wrocławiu, 2003 Kuźniewicz J., Kuźniewicz G.; Metody szkolenia i sposoby użytkowania psów, Wydawnictwo AR we Wrocławiu, 2005 Kaleta T.,: Dzikie psy i hieny, Wydawnictwo „Wiedza Powszechna”, Warszawa, 1998

Assessment methods: Completion of practical with elements of lectures

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