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<span style="font-size: 300%">'''MAMMALOGY'''<br/>
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</span><span style="font-size: 200%">'''FALL 2015''' </span>
 
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[[Image:3254_ClassInField.jpg|frame|center|Kurt with class in the field looking for camera trap sites.]]
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'''CLICK ON PICTURE FOR A LARGER VERSION'''
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|  [[Image:3254_CamTrapSiteHorsebarn.13.jpg|thumb|center|Camera trap site on Horsebarn Hill.]]  ||  [[Image:3254_StudentsInFieldB.13sm.JPG|thumb|center|One of the camera trap field groups.]]  || [[Image:3254_CamTrapStag.13.jpg|thumb|center|Camera trap picture (infrared)—a beautiful stag.]]  ||  [[Image:3254_CamTrapBeaverB.13.JPG|thumb|center|Camera trap—night-active beaver (infrared).]]
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|  [[Image:3254_CameraTrapDeer.13.jpg|thumb|center|Camera trap captures a running deer!]]  ||  [[Image:3254_SettingCameraTrapA.13sm.JPG|thumb|center|Two mammalogy students set-up a camera trap in the field.]]  ||  [[Image:3254_StudentsInFieldC.13sm.JPG|thumb|center|Indefatigable students cross the Fenton River in search of a camera site.]]  ||  [[Image:3254_CamTrapFisherNightCrop.13.jpg|thumb|center|Camera trap captures a fisher late at night! (infrared)]]
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#FFCC00;font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">'''INSTRUCTOR'''</h2>
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[[Image:KurtEngulfedByRacers.jpg|thumb|right|Kurt engulfed by small, scaly, legless mammals]]
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[[Image:KurtBronxZoo77.jpg |thumb|left|Kurt in 1977 as Bronx Zoo mammal keeper, with juvenile guanaco (and hair!)]]
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'''Kurt Schwenk''', Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<br>
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'''Office:''' Torrey Life Sciences, 360<br>
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'''Lab:''' Torrey Life Sciences, 365<br>
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'''Voice:''' (860) 486-0351<br>
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'''Lab phone''': (860) 486-4158<br>
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'''Fax:''' (860) 486-6364<br>
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'''Email:''' kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu<br>
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'''Dr. Schwenk's''' [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Kurt_Schwenk '''web page''']<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#FFCC00;font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">'''TEACHING ASSISTANT—MAURI LIBERTI'''</h2>
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'''Mauri Liberati'''<br>
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PhD Student<br>
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Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation Center<br>
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Department of Natural Resources and the Environment<br>
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University of Connecticut<br>
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marjorie.liberati@uconn.edu<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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*<font color="#3399CC"><span style="font-size: larger">[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Mammalogy_Class_Pictures '''LINK TO 2011 PICTURE PAGE''']
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#FFCC00;font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">'''COURSE DOWNLOADS'''</h2>
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{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/3254_Eutherian_Phylog_Orders.pdf}} '''Eutherian Phylogeny and Orders'''
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{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/schwenk/SchwenkAristotle02.pdf}}  '''Literary essay by Kurt on the problem of hierarchical ("vertical") thinking in animal classification, but also in life generally.'''
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<h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#FFCC00;font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">'''LINKS'''</h2>
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'''CLASS FACEBOOK PAGE—CAMERA TRAP PHOTOS AND MORE'''
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[https://www.facebook.com/groups/439160636196535/ '''UConn Vertebrate Biology Facebook Page''']
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'''''UCONN TODAY'' ARTICLE THAT MENTIONS MAMMALOGY'''
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[http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/11/classrooms-without-walls/ '''''UConn Today'' article about teaching outside the classroom''']
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'''MAMMAL VOCALIZATIONS"'
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[http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/mammals_eng.html#Monotremata Old World mammal sounds!]
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'''MONOTREMES'''
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[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/animals-news/platypus-dna-video-missions-wcvin.html Platypus evolution]
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[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/nat-geo-wild/wild-all-videos/ngc-the-peculiar-platypus.html Platypus feeding, locomotion, venomous spurs, reproduction, etc.]
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'''PILOSA'''
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[http://science.discovery.com/videos/mutant-planet-giant-anteater.html Giant anteater, ''Myrmecophaga'' – my personal favorite mammal in the world. I was once attacked by one at the Bronx Zoo…]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=g6s5IMLYPxE Giant anteater with baby on back]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfb9aBuUV0&NR=1 Baby giant anteater – cutest, weirdest animal on the planet]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D-mUlp_NyA Two-toed sloths, courtship, near mating]
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'''CINGULATA'''
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhBNvaVuNZk Armadillo foraging, using olfaction]
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'''TUBULIDENTATA'''
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[http://www.arkive.org/aardvark/orycteropus-afer/video-08a.html Aardvark foraging - note use of nose and olfaction to find prey]
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'''FEEDING'''
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVs5QqgsyPk Giraffe feeding - tongue is used to strip leaves off of spiny Acacia trees in Africa]
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[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/other-mammals/anteater.html Lesser anteater (''Tamandua'') feeding on ants in trees]
 
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[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/other-mammals/pangolin.html Pangolin feeding]
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[http://www.arkive.org/aardvark/orycteropus-afer/video-03a.html Aardvark feeding - amazing tongue footage!]
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'''LOCOMOTION'''
  
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[http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/mammals-animals/other-mammals/platypus_duckbill.html Platypus locomotion - note laterally sprawled posture]
=='''''MAMMALOGY MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT BE TAUGHT FALL OF 2009 - SCHWENK IS SUPPOSED TO BE ON SABBATICAL, IN WHICH CASE THE COURSE WILL NOT BE TAUGHT.
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl82AtZDOTE Armadillo gathering grass]
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGMiYj-TEo Armadillo locomotion]
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZd4UNF41E&NR=1 Lion skeleton animation showing mobile pectoral girdle and spinal flexion]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvtA17Ctpe8 Cheetah animated model showing extreme spinal flexion and increase in stride length]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3cHgELKsU Baboon locomotion]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrO2Qc1KyZc Horse locomotion made from sequential still photos - note 4 feet off ground during gallop and relatively stiff spine]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijYSR2MFiY&feature=related Kangaroo bipedal hopping - with each hop tendons stretch, then release elastic energy for rebound]
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'''PREDATION'''
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urFtOnsliI Cheetah vs. gazelle]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0zrah5JEBM Harpy eagle vs. sloth]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VklTs-Tid_I&feature=related Golden eagle vs. mountain goat]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13GQbT2ljxs Crowned eagle vs. water chevrotain]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Yx1KXQMCM Golden Eagle vs. cougar]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJmP_MBuD7w Jaguar vs. anaconda]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BZ_fMnikDA Hunter vs. deer]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM Water buffalo vs. lion vs. croc]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNYwxDZ_pA Jaguar vs. large caiman!]
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|  [[Image:WhaleOriginCartoon214.jpg|center|thumb|]]  ||  [[Image:MammCartoonAntdrinker.jpg|center|thumb|]]  ||  [[Image:MammCartoonWhackamole.jpg|center|thumb|]]  ||  [[Image:MammCartoonCaveman.jpg|thumb|]]  ||  [[Image:MammCartoonBearHaiku.jpg|center|thumb|]]
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Revision as of 14:06, 1 September 2015

MAMMALOGY

FALL 2015

Elephants.jpg
OpossumWithBabies.jpg
Tiger.jpg
FruitbatsSm.jpg
Bighorn.jpg
ZaglossusCrop.jpg
BabyHedgehogCrop.jpg
Kurt with class in the field looking for camera trap sites.


CLICK ON PICTURE FOR A LARGER VERSION

Camera trap site on Horsebarn Hill.
One of the camera trap field groups.
Camera trap picture (infrared)—a beautiful stag.
Camera trap—night-active beaver (infrared).
Camera trap captures a running deer!
Two mammalogy students set-up a camera trap in the field.
Indefatigable students cross the Fenton River in search of a camera site.
Camera trap captures a fisher late at night! (infrared)



INSTRUCTOR


SchwenkLabLogoLgIcon.jpg
Kurt engulfed by small, scaly, legless mammals
Kurt in 1977 as Bronx Zoo mammal keeper, with juvenile guanaco (and hair!)


Kurt Schwenk, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Office: Torrey Life Sciences, 360
Lab: Torrey Life Sciences, 365
Voice: (860) 486-0351
Lab phone: (860) 486-4158
Fax: (860) 486-6364
Email: kurt.schwenk@uconn.edu
Dr. Schwenk's web page


















TEACHING ASSISTANT—MAURI LIBERTI


[[Image:]] [[Image:]]]
Mauri Liberati
PhD Student
Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation Center
Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Connecticut
marjorie.liberati@uconn.edu









ANNOUNCEMENTS












COURSE DOWNLOADS


Pdficon small.gif Eutherian Phylogeny and Orders

Pdficon small.gif Literary essay by Kurt on the problem of hierarchical ("vertical") thinking in animal classification, but also in life generally.





LINKS



CLASS FACEBOOK PAGE—CAMERA TRAP PHOTOS AND MORE

UConn Vertebrate Biology Facebook Page

UCONN TODAY ARTICLE THAT MENTIONS MAMMALOGY

UConn Today article about teaching outside the classroom

MAMMAL VOCALIZATIONS"'

Old World mammal sounds!

MONOTREMES

Platypus evolution
Platypus feeding, locomotion, venomous spurs, reproduction, etc.

PILOSA

Giant anteater, Myrmecophaga – my personal favorite mammal in the world. I was once attacked by one at the Bronx Zoo…
Giant anteater with baby on back
Baby giant anteater – cutest, weirdest animal on the planet
Two-toed sloths, courtship, near mating

CINGULATA

Armadillo foraging, using olfaction

TUBULIDENTATA

Aardvark foraging - note use of nose and olfaction to find prey

FEEDING

Giraffe feeding - tongue is used to strip leaves off of spiny Acacia trees in Africa
Lesser anteater (Tamandua) feeding on ants in trees
Pangolin feeding
Aardvark feeding - amazing tongue footage!

LOCOMOTION

Platypus locomotion - note laterally sprawled posture
Armadillo gathering grass
Armadillo locomotion
Lion skeleton animation showing mobile pectoral girdle and spinal flexion
Cheetah animated model showing extreme spinal flexion and increase in stride length
Baboon locomotion
Horse locomotion made from sequential still photos - note 4 feet off ground during gallop and relatively stiff spine
Kangaroo bipedal hopping - with each hop tendons stretch, then release elastic energy for rebound

PREDATION

Cheetah vs. gazelle
Harpy eagle vs. sloth
Golden eagle vs. mountain goat
Crowned eagle vs. water chevrotain
Golden Eagle vs. cougar
Jaguar vs. anaconda
Hunter vs. deer
Water buffalo vs. lion vs. croc
Jaguar vs. large caiman!

MAMMALOGY CARTOONS


WhaleOriginCartoon214.jpg
MammCartoonAntdrinker.jpg
MammCartoonWhackamole.jpg
MammCartoonCaveman.jpg
MammCartoonBearHaiku.jpg
MammCartoonMacaques.jpg
MammCartoonPunkupine.jpg
JessieRyanDeer.jpg
JessieRyanApes.jpg
KatyDurant2.jpg
ErikaNorton2.jpg
LemmingsCartoon.jpg
ErikaNorton1.jpg
SamanthaSpeirs1.jpg
AlexDeFran1.jpg
ErikaNorton3.jpg
SamKremidas3.jpg
KurtZebra.jpg
KurtDolphin.jpg
SamKremidas2.gif
SamKremidas1.jpg
CaseyJames3.gif
SamanthaSpeirs2a.gif
DinoMammalCartoon.gif