MAMMALOGY
(BIO 452/554)
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MAMMALOGY |
LECTURE SCHEDULE
| 8 Jan (T) | Introduction LOG-ON: American Society of Mammalogists http://www.mammalsociety.org/ and scan links to other mammalogical sites at http://www.mammalsociety.org/links/index.html | 4-22 & 168-172 |
| 10 Jan (R) | Mesozoic evolution LOG-ON: mammal evolution http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_33000/33422.stm READ: Divergence times of eutherian mammals http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5436/2031a |
42-51 |
| 15 Jan (T) | Mammalian characteristics
LOG-ON: mammal characteristics http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia.html LOG-ON: mammal records http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/records.htm |
51-59 & 105-115 |
| 17 Jan (R) | Integument, support, and movement LOG-ON: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/anat/running_fast.html |
62-81 |
| 22 Jan (T) | Foods, feeding, and foraging strategies LOG-ON: teeth http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/anat/kinds_of_teeth.html | 82-104 |
| 24 Jan (R) | Environmental adaptations | 116-149 |
| 29 Jan (T) | Reproduction and development | 150-167 |
| 31 Jan (R) | Parental care and mating systems LOG-ON: parental care and mating systems http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/classes/animal_behavior/MATESYS.HTM | 358-371 |
| 5 Feb (T) | FIRST LECTURE EXAMINATION | |
| 7 Feb (R) | Monotremes and marsupials
LOG-ON: monotremes http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb420.07/anelson/platy_bio.html
LOG-ON: marsupial origins http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/marsupials.html |
173-193 |
| 12 Feb (T) | Insectivora, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, and
Dermoptera LOG-ON: shrews http://members.vienna.at/shrew/index.html LOG-ON: elephant shrews http://www.birminghamzoo.com/ao/eleshrew.htm |
194-204 |
| 14 Feb (R) | Chiroptera and Primates LOG-ON: bats http://www.nasbr.org/ and http://www.batcon.org/ LOG-ON: primates http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org//primatol.html |
205-245 |
| 19 Feb (T) | Xenarthra, Pholidota, and Tubulidentata
LOG-ON: xenarthrans http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/xenarthra.html and pangolins http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/pholidota.html and aardvarks http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/tubulidentata.html |
246-255 |
| 21 Feb (R) | TBA | |
| 26 Feb (T) | Carnivora LOG-ON: carnivores http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/ LOG-ON: red wolves www.carolina.com/redwolf/ and www.nczooredwolf.org LOG-ON: grizzly bears http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/bitterroot/ |
256-270 |
| 28 Feb (R) | Cetacea | 271-289 |
| 5 Mar (T) | SPRING VACATION | |
| 7 Mar (R) | SPRING VACATION | |
| 12 Mar (T) | Rodentia and Lagomorpha LOG-ON: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/anat/rodent_jaws.html |
290-310 |
| 14 Mar (R) | Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and Sirenia LOG-ON: ungulates and subungulates http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/icapb/collection/museum/SF-MUS97/text/ungu-intro.html | 311-323 |
| 19 Mar (T) | Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla LOG-ON: horse evolution http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/fhc.htm |
324-343 |
| 21 Mar (R) | TBA | |
| 26 Mar (T) | SECOND LECTURE EXAMINATION | |
| 28 Mar (R) | EASTER VACATION |
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| 2 Apr (T) | Communication, aggression, spatial relations, and social behavior | 344-357 & 372-384 |
| 4 Apr (R) | Dispersal, habitat selection, and migration | 385-398 |
| 9 Apr (T) | Populations and life histories | 399-416 |
| 11 Apr (R) | Community ecology | 417-433 |
| 16 Apr (T) | Zoogeography | 434-449 |
| 18 Apr (R) | Parasites and diseases http://www.hantavirus.net/info1.html http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/default.htm | 450-468 |
| 23 Apr (T) | Domestication and domesticated mammals LOG-ON: domestication of wolf http://www.digitaldog.com/domes.wolf.html LOG-ON: house cats http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/catkills.htm |
469-480 |
| 25 Apr (R) | Conservation LOG-ON: CITES http://cites.org/ LOG-ON: Endangered Species Act http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/esa/ and Marine Mammal Protection Act http://www.eh.doe.gov/oepa/law_sum/MMPA.HTM LOG-ON: Wildlife Conservation Society http://www.wcs.org/ and http://www.carnivoreconservation.org/ LOG-ON: NC endangered mammals http://nc-es.fws.gov/mammal/mammal.html |
481-496 |
| 30 Apr (T) | LAB PRACTICAL VI | |
| 8 May (W) | THIRD LECTURE EXAMINATION (11:30 AM - 2:30 PM) |