ETHOLOGY & APPLIED ZOOLOGY

Paper Code: 
ZOL 422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course objectives:

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Explain the natural behaviour patterns, how the behaviour varies among individuals and species (wild, domestic, and captive), how current and past environments and ecology influence not only behaviour, but also the underlying gene environment interactions that shape it.
  2. Give knowledge of various culture industries for economic benefits.

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ZOL422

Ethology & Applied Zoology

Students will be able to:

CO92: Learn a wide range of theoretical and practical techniques used to study animal behaviour.

CO93: Develop skills, concepts and experience to understand all aspects of animal behaviour.

CO94: Understand and be able to objectively evaluate the role of behaviour in the protection and conservation of animals in the wild.

CO95: Consider and evaluate behaviour of all animals, including humans, in the complex ecological world, including the urban environment

CO96: Describe elementary Knowledge of Sericulture,  Apiculture,  Lac culture,  Pisciculture, Poultry Keeping and Dairy farming

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

 

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz

Assignments,

Presentations

Surprise test

Open book test

 

12.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Introduction of Ethology:-

  •     History and Branches of ethology
  •     Introduction to the works of KonradLorenz,NikoTinbergen,Kark Von Frish

Concepts of Ethology

  •     Fixed Action Pattern
  •     ASE
  •     Sign Stimulus
  •     Innate Releasing Mechanism
12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Human Brain and behaviour

Behavioural genetics

Reproductive behaviour patterns:-

  •     Courtship and Mating
  •     Stickleback courtshipbehaviour
12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

Social organization

Definition, properties, advantages, social group of rhesus and langur

Animal communication: Auditory, chemical,visual

Migration: Fish (Catandromous and Anandromous),

Orientation: Taxes and Kinesis

12.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Learning

Definition ,difference from Instinct, habituation, trail and error, conditioning

Imprinting

Human Ethology – Introduction to Desmond Morris, derivation of human behaviour from animals.

12.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

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 Bombyxmori, Predators and parasitoids of silkworm and their management

    Apiculture                    

Kinds 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.

    Lac culture                                        

Lac 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

    Pisciculture

Fresh 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.

Poultry Keeping

Poultry science: Maintenance and management

Dairy farming

Basic concepts in dairy science: Semen collection & preservation; artificial insemination; multiple ovulation and embryo transfer, Different breeds of Cattle

Essential Readings: 

Suggested readings:

  •     Animal behaviour,Hindi,R.A. Publication McGraw Hill Co.New York.
  •      Animal Societies and Evolution : Scientific Ameridan Publications
  •      Animal behaviour : Mac Farlnd D. Publications.ELBS
  •      Animal behaviour :Werlace, R.A. Publ. Goodyear Publishin Co lne.
  •     Grizimek'sencyclopaedia of Ethology.
  •      Hand book of Ehological method Laharen.Publ.Garland STPM Press
  •     Shukla and Upadhyaya : Economic Zoology (Rastogi Publishers, 2009).
  •     Chatterjee K.D. Parasitology (Protozoology and Helminthology) with two hundred fourteen illustrations. CBS Publishers & Distributors Private Limited, 2009.
  •     Paniker, CKJ. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 6th Edition Jaypee Brothers, 2007
  •     Insects. M. S. Mani, NBT, India, 2006.

Essential Readings:

  •     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 hand book of Economic Zoology (S. Chand and Company, 2009)
     
Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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