Class Medical Zoology

Medical Zoology aims to contribute for a wider knowledge of Veterinarians regarding animals that are not studied throughout their academic path and that represent an important portion of veterinary practice, in the scope of both pets and livestock, as well as animal products. This CU also intends to study the morphology, biology and ecology of harmful vertebrates and arthropods, to achieve diagnosis and prophylactic measures, as well as to clarify and discuss curiosities, explore, and divulge new topics and studies, in order to develop the students’ interest in this vast and important yet so little explored and neglected field. As such, this CU is a part of and has a strong link to the One Health concept.

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Chiroptera - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Amphibia - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Ophidia - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Arthropoda - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Araneae - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Scorpiones - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures; Synanthropic animals - biology, medical and veterinary importance and control measures (rats, pigeons, seagulls, cockroaches, lepidopterans, ants, and wasps);   Fish - biology, medical and veterinary importance, and control measures (poisonous fishes, spiny appendages and teeth or even electrical organs).

The assessment will be based on individual work on a topic covered in one of the visits carried out and a presentation (in a group) on one of the visits. UC approval depends on a minimum classification of 9.5 (out of 20).

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