Ignore the poster below. He is just bitter that he's failing. But don't mind him. His dry, soulless husk of a body will soon blow away in the wind, never again to be seen.

The class itself is incredibly easy. The tests only cover ~25% of the actual material taught in lecture, so it is completely up to you to enjoy the depth of the class. If you just hate learning, then gtfo. It's hot here in Royce, and the classroom would be more comfortable without you.

The profesor + TAs are all very friendly. If you have a problem with them, YOU are the douche.

This class is hard, since they make you memorize the taxonomy and characteristics of most of mammalian animals. This is a very memorization-heavy class, but it may give you just enough background information to go into researching animal physiology and evolution, as in you might learn some useful information for other EEB classes.
The lectures are recorded and dense in material. The tests are difficult but mainly on memorization. The labs involve real animal bones and skins, and it is expected to memorize and be able to recognize each animal's skulls. The practical exams for lab are timed and involve rotating through stations where skulls are placed. You must be able to recognize them and identify the animal by its taxonomic classification without moving the skulls around.

If you can’t dedicate a lot of time to memorizing the slides and every skull in the lab, DO NOT take this class. His tests are tricky, and spelling counts for all of the scientific names. He was kind enough to drop our lowest test score and he is a nice person but this class is not an easy A after COVID. Don’t be fooled by the previous comments saying that it’s easy. I’m an A student and I got a B. If you have the time, take this class, if you have other classes, don’t take this class.

Took Mammalogy with Professor Dines because there was no other class available. It ended up being a very pleasant and interesting class. Dines was very accommodating and offered to drop one of the lecture/lab exams after the class did poorly. The class has 3 lecture exams and 2 lab exams.

Slides are very organized and all the exams are heavy memorization of mammal family names, family details, and sometimes he puts stuff that he mentions in class but not on the slides on the test. Overall lecture exams were chill and if you can memorize details you'll do fine.

Lab was kind of useless and it's mainly self-taught. Best advice would be to take good pictures of the specimens and memorize them well because the lab exams are also straight memorization and the exams are worth 125 points for some ungodly reason so if you bomb a lab exam you're screwed. The exams themselves were very fair and easy though so make sure you take the time to simply memorize the skulls and you'll get free points.