Bi9170 Mammalogy

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2009
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.
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:50 BR4
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi6083 Bakalářská státní závěrečná zkouška ze systematické biologie a ekologie &&( Bi2090 System evolution vertebrates ||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
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 interprete the status of mammals as a 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 fermeters). 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
Assessment methods
oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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