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 summer semester 2019/20
Evolutionary Biology (KZO/102E): This course provides and introduction to evolutionary biology. It…
The defense of Mgr. Michaela Másílková thesis
The defense of Mgr. Michaela Másílková thesis „Personality in non-human primates: methods…
Ph.D. student conference in winter semester 2019/20
10. 1. 2020, lecture room B3 (Veselovského posluchárna) time speaker title 8.50-9.00…
Predator recognition capabilities of wild-ranging shrikes
Despite object categorization being an important ability for the survival of animals,…
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