Guide 6B Animal Care
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Animal Care Objectives
Reptiles
Provide characteristics of reptilian species, including their evolutionary origins, shared structures, and modern descendants; and describe the general structure of eggs and explain their evolutionary significance and relationship to humans.
Care & Handling
Describe the basic tenants of animal care, including addressing limited resources and continual threats; and define reliability and validity in science and explain why it is important to have both.
Parental Care
Provide examples of parental care in animals, including minimal intervention to long-term support; list characteristics of pigs, including parental care, classification, and relationship to humans; and explain the basis and significance of nesting behaviors, including examples of animal nests.
Mammals
Describe the ancestry basic characteristics of mammals; distinguish between monotremes and marsupials, providing an example of each; and diagram the pedigrees for various animal crosses, including genotypes and phenotypes of parents and offspring.
Animal Care Quiz
Quiz Directions
Complete all four sections and take the quiz on Canvas.
Use the learning objectives above to guide your studying.
Animal Care Media
Introduced in Care & Handling section of this guide:
Animal Care Plan
Select an animal you would potentially take care of over an extended period of time. This could be livestock, a companion animal, a wild population you are assisting, or a wild animal that is being rehabilitated. This can be an animal you have already used in a course assignment or a new animal.
Develop a long-term care plan for the animal, it can be in bulleted checklist or paragraph form. Include in your plan:
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How you will address potentially limited resources like food, water, and housing.
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How you will address continued threats like diseases or potential predators (if any)
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Whether care will need to be adjusted for different life stages, for example, an aging animal.
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How you will stay consistent with care over time as your life changes.
Upload your plan to Canvas when it is completed. This could fit into multiple outcomes in the final portfolio.
Media Directions
To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas.
Upload your animal care plan to Canvas. Your plan can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a photo of the notes, or even a video. Multiple assignment formats are supported.
Animal Portfolio
Portfolio Directions
Typically each week you will have about an hour’s worth of work on your Animal Portfolio, this week, add your favorite quiz responses and media pieces to your portfolio. Decide which of the course outcomes are the best match for your work. You can review the requirements on the portfolio page.
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