Educational guide

IDENTIFYING DATA

2023_24

Subject

ETHOLOGY

Code

01750015

Study programme

1750 - M.U.INV.DIVERSIDAD BOTANICA Y ZOOLOGIA

Descriptors

Credit.

Type

Year

Period

Optional

First

Second

Language

Prerequisites

Department

BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL

Coordinador

CANESTRARI -, DANIELA

E-mail

dcan@unileon.es
vbag@unileon.es

Lecturers

BAGLIONE , VITTORIO

CANESTRARI -, DANIELA

Web

General description

Tribunales de Revisión

Tribunal titular
Cargo	Departamento	Profesor
Presidente	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	MAZE GONZALEZ , RAQUEL ANA
Secretario	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	ORDIZ FERNANDEZ , ANDRES AVELINO
Vocal	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	NUÑEZ PEREZ , ETELVINA

Tribunal suplente
Cargo	Departamento	Profesor
Presidente	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	TIZADO MORALES , EMILIO JORGE
Secretario	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	FERNANDEZ SALEGUI , ANA BELEN
Vocal	BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL	ACEDO CASADO , MARIA DEL CARMEN

Topic	Sub-topic
Section I.	1. Behavior in an evolutionary and Darwinian key 2. Instinct and learning 3. Genetic and physiological bases of behavior
Section II.	4. Strategies for the use of space and resources 5. Defense strategies 6. Breeding strategies 7. Social behavior 8. Applied ethology

Methodologies :: Tests
	Class hours	Hours outside the classroom	Total hours
Field work/trips	6	0	6

Problem solving, classroom exercises	4	0	4
Presentations / expositions	2	6	8
Laboratory practicals	8	0	8

Lecture	8	24	32

Mixed tests	2	0	2

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies ::

	Description
Field work/trips	Excursions to collect behavioral data in the field or urban parks
Problem solving, classroom exercises	Classroom sessions to design experiments of behavioral studies and analysis of data collected in the laboratory or in the field
Presentations / expositions	Oral presentation of studies, results and conclusions carried out in the field and in the laboratory. Discussions about the possible interpretations of the results.
Laboratory practicals	Collection of behavioral data from audiovisual material of wildlife. Ethology experiments using laboratory animals.
Lecture	Participatory lectures in which the basic concepts related to the proposed topics will be presented. Activities of search for bibliographical information.

Description

	Description	Qualification
Mixed tests	Theoretical/practical examination of the fundamental knowledge and acquired skills. It is necessary to get a minimum grade of 5/10 in the written exam as a whole	50%
Others	Activities related to the data collected in the field and in the laboratory. Presentation of the same in the classroom.	50%

Other comments and second call

Basic	John Alcock, Animal Behaviour. An Evolutionary Approach, Sinauer, 2018 Juan Carranza, Etología Adaptativa, UCO press, 2016

Complementary

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA / 01750014

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

BIODIVERSITY AND BIOLOGY OF VERTEBRATES / 01750006

ANIMAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUES / 01750008