| Course title | |||||
| 野生動物保全学実習 [Practice of Wildlife Conservation] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | 1st | |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 01RN3313 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 金子 弥生, 鈴木 馨 [KANEKO Yayoi, SUZUKI Kaoru] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | 3-211 | Email address | |
| Course description |
| This course provides students with theory, methods and analysis techniques for ecological study on wildlife in the field involving food analysis, camera trap, and mark-recapture surveys. In addition, students will learn zoonosis and how to handling for wildlife. |
| Expected Learning |
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Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to: Conducting capture voles with box traps for MRM (Mark-Recapture Methods) in vole Handling small/medium sized mammals and measure body sizes. Observe skull specimens both carnivores and hervivores Camera trapping methods, data analysis and presentation Identify medium-sized carnivores field signs and conducting lab techniques of food habit analysis |
| Course schedule |
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Excise of live capturing for vole Determination of sex for small mammals and measure body size Immobilization and handling techniques for small mammals Identify field signs (feces, footsteps) for carnivores Lab techniques food habit analysis Camera trap setting, data analysis and presentation Apr 19th 12：15-12：45 Guidance, May 22-24th, and May 30th, June 6th Lab/Field lessons at Fuchu campus, and one day excursion to FM Tsukui Station |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Takahiro Murakami and Midori Saeki. Ethical stance of wildlife scientists; From the start to the end of their studies. 65-88． Yayoi Kaneko, Hideharu Tsukada, Tadanobu Okumura, Takeshi Fujii, Hiroshi Sasaki and Takahiro Murakami.Identification of carnivore field signs, camera trap techniques and data analysis with a distribution survey case study.Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science). 2011,43: 145-151. Yuko Fukue, Tuyoshi Takeshita, Nozomi Nakanishi. Diet analysis methods to assess the food habits of carnivore in Japan―I. Canidae, Mustelidae, Felidae. Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science). 2011, Vol.51, No.1, p.129. Makoto Asano, Hideharu Tsukada, Mayumi Kishimoto. The care for measuring, sampling, marking and sanitary requirement in capturing wild carnivores. Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science). 2006, Vol.46, No.1, p.111. |
| References |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Class participation 20 Report 80 |
| Message from instructor(s) |
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Participate actively in this lecture and laboratory work. |
| Course keywords |
| Population, animal handling, observing specimens, mark and recapture method, food habit analysis, camera trap, monitoring, zoonosis, wildlife management techniques |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 3/8/2019 5:21:15 PM |