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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural 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:
Craemer C: A systematic appraisal of the Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata) (Prof CH Scholtz, Prof CT Chimimba)

Medger K: The reproductive biology of two small southern African mammals, the spiny mouse Acomys spinosissimus (Rodentia: Muridae) and the Eastern rock elephant-shrew, Elephantulus myurus (Macroscelidea: Macroscelididae) (Prof NC Bennett, Prof CT Chimimba)

Ms S: the effect of environmental variables on patterns of body temperature in the Damaraland mole-rat, Fukomys damarensis (Ogilby 1838) (Prof NC Bennett, Dr F Dalerum)

Reisinger R: Abundance and predatory impact of killer whales at Marion island (Prof MN Bester, Dr PJN de Bruyn)

Viljoen H: The relationship between immunocompetence, parasite load and reproductive effort in the Highveld mole-rat Cryptomys hottentotus pretoriae Roberts 1913) (Prof NC Bennett, Dr H Lutermann)

 

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