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Animal Ecology and Ethology

Class at Faculty of Education |
OKNB1B134B

Syllabus

1 / Congenital behavior (metabolic behavior, feeding behavior

/ drinking, defecation, urination, breathing /, protective behavior / tanatosis, mimetic behavior, movement and protective behavior /, comfortable behavior) 2 / Reproductive behavior (rival breeding, partner behavior, epigamous behavior, mating, iteroparia, semelparie) 3 / Social behavior (types of societies), animal communication (optical, chemical, tactile, acoustic, electrical, jumping behavior) 4 / Playful behavior, curiosity, search behavior, territorial behavior 5 / Orientation of animals (kinesis, taxa, navigation, piloting), biorhythms, sleep 6 / Acquired (adaptable) behavior (imprinting, refinement and coordination of movements, habituation, structural perception, classical conditioning, discovery behavior, insight, tradition) 7 / Animal movement, migration 8 / Adaptation of animals to the aquatic environment 9 / Eating behavior 10 / Toxicity of animals 11 / Aposematism and mimetic phenomena 12 / Bioluminescence of animals 13 / Parental care for offspring

Annotation

The course Ecology and Ethology (Behavioral Ecology) of animals deals with biotic and abiotic factors affecting animals and their behavior (innate and acquired behavior, motivational and triggering mechanisms, learning principles, feeding and reproductive behavior, intraspecific and interspecific communication)