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Ethology and Applied Biology [1]

Paper Code: 
ZOL 422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

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ZOL 422

Ethology & Applied Zoology

Students will :

 CO125:  Analyse and demonstrate a wide range of theoretical and practical techniques used to study animal behaviour and correlate between Mammalian Nervous system

CO126: Develop skills, concepts and experience to understand all aspects of animal behaviour.

CO127: Develop understanding to objectively evaluate the role of behaviour in the protection and conservation of animals in the wild.

CO 128: Describe various types of communication used among animal, Migration and Orientation in birds and fishes and even in small invertebrates too.

CO129: Differentiate and evaluate behaviour of all animals, including humans, in the complex ecological world, including the urban environment

CO130: Describe elementary Knowledge of Sericulture,  Apiculture,  Lac culture,  Pisciculture, Poultry Keeping and Dairy farming

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz

Assignments,

Presentations

Surprise test

Open book test

 

12.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Introduction of Ethology:

  • History and Branches ofethology
  • Introduction to the works of KonradLorenz,NikoTinbergen,Kark VonFrish
  • Concepts of Ethology
  • Fixed ActionPattern
  • ASE
  • SignStimulus
  • Innate ReleasingMechanism
12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Human Brain and behaviour Behavioural genetics Reproductive behaviour patterns:-

  • Courtship and Mating
  • Stickleback courtship behaviour
12.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
  • Social organization
  • Definition, properties, advantages, social group of rhesus and langur
  • Animal communication: Auditory, chemical,visual Migration: Fish (Catadromous and Anadromous), Orientation: Taxes and Kinesis

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

 

  • Learning
  • Definition, difference from Instinct, habituation, trail and error, conditioning
  • Imprinting
  • Human Ethology – Introduction to Desmond Morris, derivation of human behaviour from animals.
12.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Elementary Knowledge of:

  • Sericulture Mulberry sericulture: Cultivation of food plants, Bioecology of mulberry silkworms, Rearing of silkworms, Harvesting and processing of cocoons, Reeling appliances, Diseases of Bombyx mori, Predators and parasitoids of silkworm and their management
  • ApicultureKinds of honeybees, Organization of bee colony, Life-history and behaviour of bees, Diseases of honeybees, Beekeeping methods, Equipment and tools.Apiary management - Hiving a colony, Controlling swarming, Handling of bees, Extraction of honey and wax, Bee products.
  • LaccultureLac insect and its life history, Host plant, Strains of lac insects, Propagation of lac insects, Lac crop management, Natural enemies of lac insects and, Lac extraction
  • PiscicultureFresh water cultivable fishes and their aquaculture profile: Indian Major Craps (IMC), Exotic Carps (EC), Cat-fishes, Tilapia, Channa etc. Cultivable species of crustaceans and molluscs: Identification and aquaculture profile: Shrimps, freshwater prawn, crab, lobster, pearl oyster, edible oyster, mussel-clams etc.Brackish water aquaculture-Introduction, the tidal range, salinity and the biota.
Essential Readings: 
  • Animal behaviour- ReenaMathur, Rastogi Publications Meerut
  • Manning,An introduction to behaviour Edward. Arnold.London
  • Shrivastava: Test book of Applied Entomology, Vol. I &II (Kalyani Publishers, 1991)
  • Text Book of Applied Zoology: Vermiculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, Lac-Culture, Agricultural Pests and their Control by Pradip V. Jabde, 2005 Publisher Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. New Delhi
  • Absan and Sinha: A handbook of Economic Zoology (S. Chand and Company, 2009)
  • Animal behaviour,Hindi,R.A. Publication McGraw Hill Co.New York.
  • Animal Societies and Evolution : Scientific Ameridan Publications

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

● Animal behaviour : Mcfarland D.Publications.ELBS
● Animal behaviour :Werlace, R.A. Publ. Goodyear Publish in Colne.
● Grizimek' sencyclopaedia of Ethology.
● Handbook of Ethological method Laharen. Publ.Garland STPM Press
● Shukla and Upadhyaya : Economic Zoology (Rastogi Publishers, 2009)
● Chatterjee K.D. Parasitology (Protozoology and Helminthology) with two hundred fourteen illustrations. CBS Publishers & Distributors Limited, 2009.
● Paniker, CKJ. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 6th Edition Jaypee Brothers, 2007
 
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Academic Year: 
2023-2024 [7]

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[1] https://www.zoology.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/ethology-and-applied-biology-2
[2] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-20-animal-behavior-fall-2013/pages/lecture-notes/%C2%A0
[3] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-20-animal-behavior-fall-2013/resources/mit9_20f13_lec4/%C2%A0
[4] https://www.masterclass.com/articles/guide-to-ethology-exploring-the-study-of-animal-behavior#why-is-the-study-of-ethology-important%C2%A0
[5] https://www.journals:.elsevier.com/animal-behaviour
[6] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/animal-behaviour%C2%A0
[7] https://www.zoology.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2023-2024