Materials for those who did not complete the vertebrate zoology field practice in 2015

First of all, I want to express my condolences to those students who, for one reason or another, missed the vertebrate zoology field practice in Haidary or its alternative in Kharkiv. You have been deprived of that part of your education which many graduates still remember as the most vivid. Alas, you cannot expect to repeat the practice. You will need to work through the material independently, and then pass tests with Tetyana Andriyivna Atemasova on ornithology and theriology, and with me (Dmytro Andriyovych Shabanov) on herpetology and ichthyology. The level of your answers will be assessed on the same scale as the level of answers of those who completed the practice at the biological field station. Answer well — get a good grade. To do this, you will need to make serious efforts. The main source for your preparation — the manual for conducting field practice (Atemasova et al., 2008). The link provides its version printed six years ago. A corrected version is available here. In addition, the current version of the herpetology section is available here and on the pages to which the links lead. Tetyana Andriyivna kindly provided a set of her presentations, which she uses in the practice. You can download and use them