Sneak Peek
Short Course - Hooved Animals
Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about ungulates.
Many farm animals and zoo specimens are hooved mammals (also
known as ungulates).
Cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and horses are all ungulates; and
as such share a whole range of characteristics that make them different to
birds, carnivores, marsupials and other animals.
The list of ungulates found in the wild is extensive, from
elephants, hippopotamus, deer, and girraffe to camels, hyraxes, zebras, whales
and dolphins.
Anyone who works on a farm, zoo or wildlife park, should
have a knowledge of ungulates to at least the level of this course.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
Course Content - What do you learn?
This course has five lessons. Each lesson has a corresponding online self-assessment test.
Lesson 1 Introduction – Over view of Ungulates
- Introduction
- Digestion
- Behaviour
- The Ungulate Brain and Behaviour
- Grandorder: Ungulata
Lesson 2 ARTIODACTYLS: Even-Toe d Ungulates
- Introduction
- A Note on Taxonomy
- Habitat and Locomotion
- Physical Characteristics
- Digestion
- Physiology
- Psychology and Behaviour
- Significance to Man
- Subgroups
- Suborder: Suiformes
- 1) Tayassuidae
- 2) Suidae
- 3) Hippopotamidae
- Suborder: Tylopoda
- Suborder: Ruminantia
- 1) Tragulidae
- 2) Giraffidae
- 3) Cervidae
- 4) Moschidae
- 5) Antilocapridae
- 6) Bovidae
- What are Cattle?
- Cattle Biology
- Cattle Behaviour
- What are Goats?
- Biological Terminology
- Goat Psychology and Social Structure
- Sheep
Lesson 3 PERISSODACTYLS
- Introduction
- Habitat and Distribution
- Physical Characteristics and Physiology
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Behaviour
- Significance to Man
- Subgroups
- Ceratomorpha
- Hippomorpha
- Hippomorpha
- Equidae
- Social Behaviour
- Harem Breeding Groups
- Territorial Breeding Groups
- Domesticated Horses
- Asses
- Zebras
- Ceratomorpha
- Tapiridae
- Rhinocerotidae
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproductive Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Shoeing the horse
Lesson 4 Aquatic Ungulates
- Introduction
- Order Cetacea
- Evolution
- Habitat and Distribution
- Physical Characteristics and Physiology
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Behaviour
- Echolocation
- Significance to Man
- order: Cetacea
- 1) Suborder Mysticeti (Baleen Whales)
- 2) Suborder Odontoceti (Toothed Cetaceans)
- Suborder: Mysticeti (Baleen Whales)
- Family: Balaenidae
- Physical Characteristics
- Diet and Feeding
- Reproductive Behaviour
- Habitat
- Family: Balaenopteridae
- a) Subfamily Megaptera
- Physical Characteristics
- Diet and Feeding
- Reproductive Behaviours
- Habitat
- b) Subfamily Balaenopterinae
- Physical Characteristics
- Diet and Feeding
- Reproductive Behaviour
- Habitat
- Family: Neobalaenidae
- Family: Eschrichtiidae
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- Suborder: Odontoceti (Toothed Cetaceans)
- Family: Delphinidae
- Physical Characteristics
- DOLPHINS
- 1) Genus Cephalorhynchus
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- 2) Genus Delphinus
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- 3) Genus Grampus
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Habitat
- 4) Genus Lissodelphis
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- 5) Genus Sousa
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- 6) Genus Tursiops
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- Whales
- 1) Genus Feresa
- 2) Genus Orcinus
- 3) Genus Globicephala
- 4) Genus Peponcephala
- 5) Genus Pseudorca
- Family: Physeteridae
- Family/Subfamily: Kogiidae
- Family: Ziphiidae
- Family: Platanistidae
- Family: Iniidae
- Family: Lipotidae
- Family: Pontoporiidae
- Family: Monodontidae
- Family: Phocoenidae
- Order: Sirenia
- 1) Dugongidae
- Physical Characteristics
- Reproduction and Behaviour
- Diet and Feeding
- Habitat
- 2) Trichechidae
Lesson 5 Other Ungulates
- Order: Proboscidea
- Habitat and Distribution
- Physical Characteristics and Physiology
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Behaviour
- Significance to Man
- Order: Tubulidentata
- Habitat and Distribution
- Physical Characteristics and Physiology
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Behaviour
- Significance to Man
- Order: Hyracoidea
- Habitat and Distribution
- Physical Characteristics and Physiology
- Digestion
- Reproduction
- Behaviour
- Significance to Man
- Physical Characteristics
- Behaviour and Reproduction
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end
of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and
each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need
internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment
which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60%
pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of
completion with your name on it. If you do not achieve a 60% pass rate,
you can contact us to re-sit your exam. ( email- admin@acs.edu.au )
Contact us at anytime if you have any issues with the course. admin@acs.edu.au