***Program for the Moscow region during May, 11-15*** ----------------------------------------------------- May,11 ------ Arrival, greeting, transportation by bus to Zvenigorod biological station. Conditions of hospitality: 4-person rooms, restrooms are outside, shower is inside. 19.0 party, maybe a short lecture about the history of the station May 12 ------ 6.00 a.m. short breakfast 6.30-9.0 ornithological excursion. Instructor - Dr.Nicolay Poyarkov, teacher of the Zoology Department, Moscow State University 9.00-10.00 breakfast 10.00-13.00 botanical excursion. Instructor - Nicolay Prilepsky, teacher of the Geobotany Department, Moscow State University 13.00-14.0 lunch 14.30-18.30 introduction to main directions of research conducted at the stations. Students should be divided into 4 groups of 5 persons. Every group will study with special instructor. After every one hour groups will change instructor. Lesson 1. Biology and systematic of bats. Instructor - Dr. K.K.Panyutin Lesson 2. Territorial relations of passerine birds. Observations of marked titmice. Instructor - Dr. Anvar Kirimov, teacher in the Zoology Department, Moscow State University Lesson 3. Migration and bioenergetics of passerine birds. Instructor - Dr. Gavrilov V.M. Lesson 4. Fauna of low plants (Discomycetes). Instructor - Dr. Prohorov V.P. 18.30 - 19.00 - discussion, questions and answers. 19.30. - dinner with teachers of the station. Picnic will be on the Moscow river's bank in accompanying of guitar and student songs. May 13 ------ 8.00 -9.00 breakfast 9.30 departure 10.00 -12.00 excursion in Zvenigorod monastery 12.00 -13.00 transportation to Moscow 13.00 14.00 registration in hotel and resting 14.00-15.00 lunch 15.00 departure to the National park "Moose island" 15.30 - 18.00 excursion in the park 19.00 dinner (maybe in the park's area) May 14 ------ 8.00 -9.00 breakfast 9.00 - departure to Biological Station "Tchernogolovka" of A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences 10.00 - 11.00. arrival to Biological Station "Tchernogolovka". Lecture "History of creation of Biological Station "Tchernogolovka" and main aspects of works of Laboratory of Behaviour and Behavioural Ecology of Terrestrial Mammals" - Chief of Laboratory D r. V.V. Rozhnov 11-00. -13.00 review excursion and 30-min lectures: 11.00-11.30. Interspecific relationships between European mink (Mustela lutreola) and close-related species - American mink (Mustela vison) and European polecat (Mustela putorius) and the problem of protection of European mink - Dr. V.V. Rozhnov, A.A. Pet rin 11.30 -12.00 Indirect olfactory communication of small carnivorous mammals - Dr. V.V. Rozhnov 12.00 - 12.30. Relationships between close-related species of voles (genus Cletrionomys) - Dr. O.V. Osipova 12.30.-13.00 Interspecific relationships between any forms of hedgehogs - I.V. Lukyanova 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.30. Taxonomic studies of complicated form in rodents - Yu.M. Kovalskaya 14.30-15.00. Study of biology and behaviour of the European lynx - Dr. S.V. Naidenko 15.00-15.30. Problems of conservation and the methods of breeding of rare mammals from Red Data Book of Russian Federation: example of musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) - Dr. V.I. Prikhodko 15.30 - 16.00. Olfactory signals in the social behaviour of gerbils - Dr. V.S. Gromov 16-00. 17.30. Ecological excursion in the around of Biological Station "Tchernogolovka" of A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences - Dr. V.S. Gromov 17-30 - Depart from Biological Station "Tchernogolovka" 18.30- Arrival at the hotel 19.00 Dinner May 15 ------ 9.00 -10.00 breakfast 10.00 tourism excursions in Moscow.