ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: BBS10128f11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Animal Behaviour
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 8
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr Irena Zwolińska-Bartczak
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course student knows how to observe and to recognize different forms of animal behaviour (mainly birds and mammals) and also can interpret results of those observations. sting
Competences: Passing the course permits conducting behavioural investigations of animals.
Prerequisites: zoology, animal physiology.
Course content: Genetic and physiological basis of animals’ behaviour. Stress and its effect on animals’ reactions. Different forms of animal behaviour (sexual behaviour and customs of animals connected with reproduction, care-giving behaviour, role of territory in animal life, agonistic behaviour, investigatory behaviour, behaviour of sociable animals etc.), rules of animal behaviour observations , problem of welfare and legal protection of wild animals
Recommended literature: Nowicki B., Zwolińska-Bartczak I.: Zachowanie się zwierząt gospodarskich, PWRiL, Warszawa 1983 (some chapters) Sadowski B., Chmurzyński J., A.: Biologiczne mechanizmy zachowania. PWN, Warszawa, 2006 Plomin R., DeFries J.,C.,McClearn G.,E.,Rutter M.: Behavioral Genetics. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York 1997 (niektóre rozdziały) Scott G.: Essential Animal Behavior. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Additionally appropriate to each problem articles will be given during classes
Assessment methods: completion of practical training plus test (lectures); minimum 65% of knowledge to pass.
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