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MAMMALOGY
(BIO 452/554)

REQUIRED TEXTS

LECTURE TEXT: Feldhamer, G. A., L. C. Drickamer, S. H. Vessey, and J. F. Merritt. 1999. Mammalogy: adaptation, diversity, and ecology. WCB/McGraw-Hill, Boston.

LABORATORY TEXT: Webster, W. D., J. F. Parnell, and W. C. Biggs, Jr. 1985. Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

cheetah

Acinonyx jubatus
Cheetah

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS

8 Jan	Amer. Soc. Mammalogists links to other mammal sites	http://www.mammalsociety.org/ http://www.mammalsociety.org/links/index.html
10 Jan	mammal evolution divergence of eutherians	http://burgertribe.home.sprynet.com/ http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_33000/33422.stm http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/285/5436/2031a
15 Jan	mammal characteristics mammal records	http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia.html http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/records.htm

22 Jan	teeth	http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/anat/kinds_of_teeth.html


31 Jan	parental care/mating systems	http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/classes/animal_behavior/MATESYS.HTM

7 Feb	monotremes marsupial origins	http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb420.07/anelson/platy_bio.html http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/marsupials.html
12 Feb	shrews elephant shrews	http://members.vienna.at/shrew/index.html http://www.birminghamzoo.com/ao/eleshrew.htm
14 Feb	bats	http://www.nasbr.org/
19 Feb	xenarthrans pangolins aardvarks	http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/xenarthra.html http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/pholidota.html http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/mammalia/tubulidentata.html

26 Feb	red wolves grizzly bears	www.carolina.com/redwolf/ and www.nczooredwolf.org http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/bitterroot/




14 Mar	ungulates and subungulates	http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/icapb/collection/museum/SF-MUS97/text/ungu-intro.html
19 Mar	horse evolution	http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/fhc/fhc.htm




4 Apr	owl pellets	http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/owlkills.htm




23 Apr	house cats domestication of the wolf	http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/catkills.htm http://www.digitaldog.com/domes.wolf.html
25 Apr	CITES Endangered Species Act Mar. Mammal Protect. Act Wildlife Conservation Soc.	http://international.fws.gov/cites/cites.html http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/esa/ http://www.eh.doe.gov/oepa/law_sum/MMPA.HTM http://www.wcs.org/news/magazine/199712/feature/

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