Animal Care & Animal Behaviour Bundle Course

Course Structure

The Animal Care and Animal Behaviour is divided into following comprehensive modules.

Animal Care

Module 1: Animal Feeding

• Types of feeder
• Nutritional requirements
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Choosing and preparing food
• How much to give and when

Module 2: Animal Accommodation

• Housing requirements
• Bedding materials
• Fixtures and fittings
• Cleaning and maintaining
• Waste disposal

Module 3: Animal Health

• Disease prevention
• Common diseases of dogs, cats and rabbits
• Endo and ecto parasites
• First aid

Module 4: Handling, Restraining and Moving Animals

• Why do we need to handle, restrain and move animals?
• Personal protective equipment
• Handling and restraint equipment
• Reducing stress

Module 5: Animal Behaviour

• Normal behaviour
• Emotions
• Specific species
• Abnormal behaviour
• Stereotypic behaviour
• Observing behaviour
• Methods and recording
• Avoiding/reducing abnormal behaviour
• Environmental enrichment

Module 6: Animals in Society

• Welfare needs
• How can we meet these needs?
• The Animal Welfare Act 2006
• Current legislation
• Animals in production
• Intensive farming
• Free-range farming
• Organic farming
• Animals in sport
• Animals as assistance

Animal Behaviour

Unit 1: Studying and Recording Animal Behaviour

• What is animal behaviour?
• The study of animal behaviour
• Methods and recording
• Results

Unit 2: Prey vs. Predator

• The food chain
• Evolutionary arms race
• Adaptations to capture prey
• Luring prey
• Crypsis (Camouflage, transparency, sleep cycles)

Unit 3: Solitary and Group Living Animals

• How animals communicate
• Competition from other species
• Communication and the senses
• Visual displays
• Group or solitary?
• Hierarchy systems in group living animals

Unit 4: Mating and Parental Strategies

• Attracting a potential mate
• Mating systems and parental responsibility
• Monogamy and polygyny
• Mating systems
• Imprinting

Unit 5: Changes in Behaviour through Domestication

• What is domestication?
• Breeds
• How does domestication change the animal?
• Hibernation
• Hormones and their effects
• Abnormal behaviours

Unit 6: Animal Learning

• Instinct
• Simple learning theories
• Animal learning in training
• Human influence
• Ethics in training and the welfare of animals
• Animal intelligence
• Training animals

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