ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue

Course details
Course code: BBS20186f11
Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Wild ancestors and relatives of pets
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 0
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Magdalena Zatoń-Dobrowolska
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Student will posses the knowledge about recognize different species, which are ancestors or relatives of pets; students will know they biology, occurrence and characteristic; students will be able to show differences in structure of the body, behaviour, genetics etc., which are as effects of evolution and domestication.

Competences: after completing the course student will be able to take up a subject about domestication wild species and they adaptation to human close environmental.

Prerequisites: Zoology

Course content: Pets systematic; ancestors and evolution of pets; relatives species to pets – they characteristic and biology; effects of domestication in field of they biology and behaviour; changes in genetics of this species.

Recommended literature: Stromenger Zuzanna, Schmidt Krzysztof: Słownik kotów świata. Prószyński i spółka, 2001 Kaleta Tadeusz: Dzikie psy i hieny. Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa, 1998 Kaleta T., Fiszdon K. ”Wybrane zagadnienia z genetyki i zachowania się psów”. Wydawnictwo SGGW, 2002

Assessment methods: Completion of lectures.

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