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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology

The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology - Postgraduate Student Projects

Dissertations/Theses:
Human H: Pollination ecology of Aloe greatheadii var. davyana and its role in the bee industry in South Africa (Prof SW Nicolson)

Brettschneider H: Systematics of southern African Anostomatidae (Orthoptera) based on morphological and molecular data (Dr PW Bateman, Prof CH Scholtz, Prof CT Chimimba, Dr AD Bastos)

Costanzo M: Aspects of memory in the Damaraland mole-rat Cryptomys damarensis: spatial learning and kin recognition (Prof NC Bennett)

Ferreira (McDonald) M: Evolutionary implications of variation in the calling song of the cricket Gryllys bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) (Prof JWH Ferguson)

Holtzhausen W: Regulation of beetle excretory systems by peptide hormones (Prof SW Nicolson)

Munyai FM: Intersite movement of southern elephant seals during haulout events at Marion Island (Prof MN Bester)

 

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