Essential Animal Behavior
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Essential Animal Behavior

Graham Scott

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Essential Animal Behavior

Graham Scott

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About This Book

Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction to all areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiological control of behavior to the learning, development, and function of behavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is also covered throughout the text. Written in a concise and engaging style, this new book:

  • includes examples from both marine and terrestrial environments around the world
  • places current research alongside classic examples, and
  • puts the study of animal behavior in an applied context, emphasizing the implications for animal welfare and animal conservation.

Carefully designed to meet the needs of students coming to the subject for the first time, the book includes the following features:

  • key concept boxes
  • Focus on boxes
  • chapter summaries
  • guided reading to aid revision and further study
  • case studies and boxed examples that reinforce essential points, and
  • questions for discussion.

This book is essential reading for degree-level students following modular programs in biology, zoology, marine biology, and psychology.

An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at [email protected] for more information.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
ISBN
9781405144513
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Boxes
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 Essential Animal Behavior: An Introduction
  5. 2 Controlling Behavior: The Role of the Nervous System
  6. 3 The Motivation and Organization of Behavior
  7. 4 The Development o Behavior
  8. 5 Communication
  9. 6 Foraging Behavior: Finding,Choosing, and Processing Food
  10. 7 Avoiding Predation: S aying Alive Against the Odds
  11. 8 Reproductive Behavior: Passing On Your Genes
  12. Index