Animal Care
Maximizing Resources & Limiting Threats
In this guide you will learn principles of responsible animal handling in the context of animal parental care.
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Animal Care Lecture Guide Contents
The material from this guide and corresponding lecture is assessed on the weekly quiz.
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.
