BIO 455

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• Course Description:

  This course aims to survey the origins, evolution and adaptations of mammals to diverse in the environment. It covers taxonomy, reproduction, herbivory and population cycles. Also, it includes the study of somebody organs that characterized mammals, anatomically and functionally.

   

• Course Main Objective:

1. To study the biology of mammals and their structure, function, evolutionary history, ethology.
2.  To identify the different characters of all mammology (taxonomy) orders by examining their biology, morphology and anatomy.

    

• Learning Resources

1. Wilson, D. E. and D. M. Reeder. (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2142pp.
2. منصور عطية الحازمي وسيد محمد اروي عبدالله )1438 )دليل الباحث في العلوم البيولو جية الجزء الثاني. الناشر: مركز النشر العلمي، جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز.