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Ethology and Applied Biology
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ZOL 422 |
Ethology & Applied Zoology |
Students will : CO125: Analyse and demonstrate a wide range of theoretical and practical techniques used to study animal behaviour and correlate between Mammalian Nervous system CO126: Develop skills, concepts and experience to understand all aspects of animal behaviour. CO127: Develop understanding to objectively evaluate the role of behaviour in the protection and conservation of animals in the wild. CO 128: Describe various types of communication used among animal, Migration and Orientation in birds and fishes and even in small invertebrates too. CO129: Differentiate and evaluate behaviour of all animals, including humans, in the complex ecological world, including the urban environment CO130: Describe elementary Knowledge of Sericulture, Apiculture, Lac culture, Pisciculture, Poultry Keeping and Dairy farming
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Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical
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Class test Semester end examinations, Quiz Assignments, Presentations Surprise test Open book test |
Introduction of Ethology:
- History and Branches ofethology
- Introduction to the works of KonradLorenz,NikoTinbergen,Kark VonFrish
- Concepts of Ethology
- Fixed ActionPattern
- ASE
- SignStimulus
- Innate ReleasingMechanism
Human Brain and behaviour Behavioural genetics Reproductive behaviour patterns:-
- Courtship and Mating
- Stickleback courtship behaviour
- Social organization
- Definition, properties, advantages, social group of rhesus and langur
- Animal communication: Auditory, chemical,visual Migration: Fish (Catadromous and Anadromous), Orientation: Taxes and Kinesis
- Learning
- Definition, difference from Instinct, habituation, trail and error, conditioning
- Imprinting
- Human Ethology – Introduction to Desmond Morris, derivation of human behaviour from animals.
Elementary Knowledge of:
- Sericulture Mulberry sericulture: Cultivation of food plants, Bioecology of mulberry silkworms, Rearing of silkworms, Harvesting and processing of cocoons, Reeling appliances, Diseases of Bombyx mori, Predators and parasitoids of silkworm and their management
- ApicultureKinds of honeybees, Organization of bee colony, Life-history and behaviour of bees, Diseases of honeybees, Beekeeping methods, Equipment and tools.Apiary management - Hiving a colony, Controlling swarming, Handling of bees, Extraction of honey and wax, Bee products.
- LaccultureLac insect and its life history, Host plant, Strains of lac insects, Propagation of lac insects, Lac crop management, Natural enemies of lac insects and, Lac extraction
- PiscicultureFresh water cultivable fishes and their aquaculture profile: Indian Major Craps (IMC), Exotic Carps (EC), Cat-fishes, Tilapia, Channa etc. Cultivable species of crustaceans and molluscs: Identification and aquaculture profile: Shrimps, freshwater prawn, crab, lobster, pearl oyster, edible oyster, mussel-clams etc.Brackish water aquaculture-Introduction, the tidal range, salinity and the biota.
- Animal behaviour- ReenaMathur, Rastogi Publications Meerut
- Manning,An introduction to behaviour Edward. Arnold.London
- Shrivastava: Test book of Applied Entomology, Vol. I &II (Kalyani Publishers, 1991)
- Text Book of Applied Zoology: Vermiculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, Lac-Culture, Agricultural Pests and their Control by Pradip V. Jabde, 2005 Publisher Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. New Delhi
- Absan and Sinha: A handbook of Economic Zoology (S. Chand and Company, 2009)
- Animal behaviour,Hindi,R.A. Publication McGraw Hill Co.New York.
- Animal Societies and Evolution : Scientific Ameridan Publications
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