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
The defense of MSc. Priscila Mezzomo thesis
The defense of MSc. Priscila Mezzomo thesis „Induced plant defences, their specificity,…
Department seminars on Wednesday
12. 3. 2025 Kokomo seminar (12:00 – 13:00, Kokomo room): Tomas Najer…
Department seminars on Wednesday
5. 3. 2025 Kokomo seminar (12:00 – 13:00, Kokomo room): Anna Mrázová…
The defense of MSc. Sentiko Ibalim thesis
The defense of MSc. Sentiko Ibalim thesis „Community assembly and population genetic…
Department seminars on Wednesday
26. 2. 2025 Kokomo seminář (12:00 – 13:00, Kokomo room): Martin Moos…
Department seminars on Wednesday
19. 2. 2025 Kokomo seminar (12:00 – 13:00, Kokomo room): Wolfgang Miller…


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