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 afjgxte/L1151  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
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
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
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)
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
Office hours
Remarks 1
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
12/13/2019 12:04:35 PM