Faculty of Science

Objectives

To study the adaptation of different animal groups to their environments and the mechanisms involved in responding to environmental parameters.

Contents

Adaptations of different animal groups to their various environments: respiratory; locomotory; sensory and integumentary adaptations; mechanisms for responding to changes in environmental parameters – thermoregulation; osmoregulation; aestivation; hibernation etc; physiological consequences of environmentally imposed behaviour – aggregation; dispersal; migration; etc; effects on growth; reproduction; etc.