The department of zoology of the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, conducts research and teaching of various aspects of animal biology.
The department staff specializes in the following research areas :
Archeozoology, Biology of ladybugs and invasion ecology, Biology of small African mammals, Tropical ecology, Cognitive ethology of birds, Diversity and evolution of Neotropical fishes, Ecology and biogeography of butterflies, Ecology and ethology of birds, Ecophysiology and population biology of animals, Evolution and phylogeny of mammals, Insect cold tolerance, Insect stress hormones, Phylogenetics and bioinformatics, and Primatology and evolutionary anthropology.
Recent news
New courses at the Department of zoology in winter semester 2020/21
Evolutionary Biology (KZO/102E): This course provides and introduction to evolutionary biology. It describes…
The behavior of stallion toward foals in the herd of wild horses
Horses are social animals that live in harems controlled by one or,…
Kokomo seminar
Wednesday 3. 6. 2020, 12:00, Kokomo room (former library) Vojtěch Kubelka (University…
New challenges for wildlife conservation
A new book „Problematic Wildlife II – new conservation and management challenges…
Frozen fauna remains reveal the vegetation composition of the mammoth steppe
The Late Pleistocene landscape in northern Eurasia and North America, known as…
Seminars cancelled until further notice
Due to the state-wide quarantine and RECTOR'S DECISION ON THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT…
Collaborating institutions
Institute of Entomology CAS
Insitute of Hydrobiology CAS
Department of Zoology, FS CUP
Department of Ethology: Výzkumný ústav živočišné výroby, v.v.i.
Institute of Parasitology CAS
Institute of Soil Biology CAS
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics CAS
Institute of Vertebrate Biology CAS
University Duisburg-Essen Department of Zoology