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Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
Veselovský Z. 2005: Etologie. Biologie chování zvířat. Academia Krebs J.R. & Davies N.B. 2004: An introduction to behavioural ecology. Third edition. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 420 pp (vybrané kapitoly na Moodlu). Davies N.B., Krebs J.R. & West S.A. 2012: An introduction to behavioural ecology. Fourth edition. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 506 pp (vybrané kapitoly na Moodlu). Každoročně aktualizované vybrané odborné publikace jsou po přihlášení k dispozici na Moodle (https://dl2.cuni.cz). |
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
The course is completed by an oral exam, which proves the knowledge gained during the lectures. |
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Alice Exnerová, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)
A list of topics for lectures of Ethology and Sociobiology. Their number and order does not correspond to the number of consecutive lectures. 1. Introduction, history and theory of the discipline Ethology, zoopsychology, behavioural ecology, sociobiology, behavioural sciences, proximate and ultimate causes of behaviour, four Tinbergen's questions 2. Behavioural genetics Ontogenetic factors, innate versus acquired behaviour, experiments testing heritability of behavioural traits, mechanisms of inheritance of behaviour. 3. Advantages of sociality, reciprocal altruism and cooperation Aggregation as antipredatory strategy. Prisoner's dilemma and similar games. Fate of altruistic mutation. Reciprocal altruism and conditions required for its persistence. Other types of cooperation. 4. Kin altruism, helpers and family, eusociality Hamilton's rule, coefficients of relatedness, alarm signals, helping, family and its stability in animals. Social systems in ants, wasps, termites, and eusocial mammals. Theories explaining evolution of eusociality. 5. Infanticide, siblicide and conflict of interests between relatives Infanticide in langurs, lions and rodents. Siblicide, asynchronous hatching in birds. Parental investment and parental care. Evolution of parental care. Parent-offspring conflict. 6.-7. Aggression, territoriality, and conflict Defining aggression. Genetic and physiological regulation of aggression. Conflict, territoriality, and hierarchy.Evolutionary stable strategies. Signals and communication. 8. Mating systems, promiscuity, lek Roles of males and females, sperm competition, promiscuity and its causes, advantages of multiple mating, 9. Polygyny, monogamy, and extrapair paternity. Polyandry and conflict between sexes Models explaining polygyny, monogamy and paternal investment, correlates of extrapair paternity. Tropical birds. Dunnock as an example of polyandry. Conflict between males and females. 10. Classical ethology Inherited behavioural patterns, Lorenz, Tinbergen and von Frisch. Innate versus learned. 11. Learning Associative learning, insight learning, play, aversive learning, taste aversion, imprinting, song learning, spatial cognition, imitation, tradition. 12. Personality in animals Concepts of personality in animals, behavioural syndromes, heritability and environmental influence, ontogeny, stability, and repeatability. 13.Antipredatory strategies and predator behaviour Camouflage, aposematism, mimicry, and other antipredatory strategies; perceptual and cognitive abilities of predators; searching mechanisms; predator reactions to prey warning signals; avoidance learning; recognition and generalization of warning signals. 14. Antipredatory behaviour Behavioural strategies reducing the risk of predation. |