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Ethological methods II - MB170P60B

Title:	Etologické metody II
Czech title:	Etologické metody II
Guaranteed by:	Department of Zoology (31-170)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2023 to 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	2
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity:	20
Min. number of students:	6
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Note:	enabled for web enrollment the course is taught as cyclical

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. František Sedláček, CSc.
Teacher(s):	prof. RNDr. František Sedláček, CSc.

Opinion survey results Examination dates SS schedule

Annotation -

Last update: EXNEROVA (18.04.2007)

Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 3 students.
Descriptive versus experimental research; choice of subject; reconaissance observations; empirical versus functional descriptions of behaviour; catalog, repertoire, ethogram; classification of behavioural units; research hypotheses; experimental design; manipulation; sampling methods; data-collection equipment; ethological software; statistical analysis of behavioural data, practical exercises in the field and in the laboratory including some classical experiments.

Literature -

Last update: EXNEROVA (18.04.2007)

Lehner P. N. 1996: Handbook of ethological methods. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Haccou P. & Meelis E. 1992: Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data. Oxford

University Press. Oxford.

Martin P. & Bateson P. 2005: Measuring begaviour. An Introductory guide. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Ploger B. J. & Yasukawa K. 2003: Exploring animal behavioor in laboratory and field. Academic Press. San Diego.

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Last update: Ing. Jindřiška Peterková (25.04.2012)

Zápočet je udělován za aktivní účast na všech vyučovaných úlohách a vypracování příslušných protokolů a statistickém (či interpretačním) vyhodnocení vyučovaných úloh.

Syllabus -

Last update: EXNEROVA (18.04.2007)

Practical course consisting of several tasks focused on various methods of experimental designs, observational methods, animal subjects, and equipment.

(1) Bioacustical analyses using BatSound and Avisoft;

(2) Analysis of hierarchy in winter flock of tits;

(3) Mate choice experiment in zebra finches;

(4) Exploration in mice and birds;

(5) Agonistic behaviour and mate choice in Betta splendens;

(6) Space orientation in rats using elevated plus-maze;

(7) Agonistic behaviour within group of cichlid fishes;

(8) Agonistic behaviour of house-mice males in dyadic encounters;

(9) Recognition and agonistic interaction in termites;

(10) Food neophobia in great tits;

(11) Sexual, agonistic and antipredatory behaviour in geckos;

(12) Mate choice in Poecilia reticulata;

(13) Reaction of great tits to aposematic prey;

(14) Antipredatory (mobbing) behaviour of birds using dummies of predators;

(15) Lag-sequential analysis.