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Ethology and Applied Biology [1]

Paper Code: 
ZOL-422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
This course will enable the students to -
1. Appraise 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. Develop an understanding of various culture industries for economic benefits
 
 
 

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ZOL422

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

 

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 ofethology
● Introduction to the works of KonradLorenz,NikoTinbergen,Kark VonFrish
● Concepts of Ethology
● Fixed ActionPattern
● ASE
● SignStimulus
● Innate ReleasingMechanism
 
 
 
12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
 
Human Brain and behaviour
Behavioural genetics
Reproductive behaviour patterns:-
● Courtship and Mating
● Stickleback courtship behaviour
 
 
12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
 
● 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
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 :-
● SericultureMulberry 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.
● Poultry KeepingPoultry science: Maintenance and management
● Dairy farmingBasic concepts in dairy science: Semen collection & preservation; artificial insemination; multiple ovulation and embryo transfer Different breeds of Cattle
Essential Readings: 
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
● 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
● Animal behaviour : Mcfarland D.Publications.ELBS
● Animal behaviour :Werlace, R.A. Publ. Goodyear Publish in Colne.
● Grizimek' sencyclopaedia of Ethology.
● Handbook of Ethological 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 Limited, 2009.
● Paniker, CKJ. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 6th Edition Jaypee Brothers, 2007
 
Academic Year: 
2021-2022 [2]

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