Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course, you should be able to:

• Explain how wildlife can be monitored
• State the basics of sampling
• Identify the characteristics of a good model of G(x)
• Describe behavioural monitoring
• Define a 'habitat'
• List the three modes of dispersal
• Explain habitat degradation, loss, fragmentation and displacement
• State the principles of reserve design
• Discuss habitat management and improvement
• Identify some capture-and-restrain situations
• Discuss capture myopathy
• Describe the transport of captive wild animals
• Outline human safety concerns during wildlife capture