Contact information:
Mgr. Dana Ježová
Phone: +420221951835
Fax: +420221951841
E-mail: jezova.dana@gmail.com
Room: 212
MSc Thesis:
Exploratory strategies and reactions to novel prey in tits (Paridae).
Supervisor: Alice Exnerová
PhD Thesis:
Factors influencing variability towards novel and aposematic prey in tits (Paridae).
Supervisor: Alice Exnerová
Research interests:
Ornithology, behavioural ecology, mimicry and warning signals, avian personality, predator psychology, learning and memory, avian development.
Current projects:
Individual variability in reactions to novel and aposematic prey in tits (Paridae), influence of neophobia and dietary conservatism – an interspecific comparison. Development of dietary behaviour in different species of tits (Paridae).
Lectures:
- Ethological methods (MB170P60A)
- Practicals in animal morphology (MB170C46)
- Vertebrate zoology - practical part (MB170P13A)
Selected papers:
EXNEROVÁ, A., SVÁDOVÁ, K., FOUSOVÁ, P., FUČÍKOVÁ, E., JEŽOVÁ, D., NIEDERLOVÁ, A., KOPEČKOVÁ, M., ŠTYS, P. (2008). European birds and aposematic Heteroptera: review of comparative experiments. Bull. Insect., 61, 163-165.