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The Behavior of Animals
An updated view of animal behavior studies, featuring global experts
The Behavior of Animals, Second Edition provides a broad overview of the current state of animal behavior studies with contributions from international experts. This edition includes new chapters on hormones and behavior, individuality, and human evolution. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and are supported by color illustrations, informative callouts,
and accessible presentation of technical information.
Provides an introduction to the study of animal behavior
Looks at an extensive scope of topics- from perception, motivation and emotion, biological rhythms, and animal learning to animal cognition, communication, mate choice, and individuality.
Explores the evolution of animal behavior including a critical evaluation of the assumption that human beings can be studied as if they were any other animal species.
Students will benefit from an updated textbook in which a variety of contributors provide their expertise and global perspective in specialized areas
Auteur
Johan J. Bolhuis is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
Luc-Alain Giraldeau is a behavioral ecologist currently head of the Instiitut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Quebec.
Jerry A. Hogan is emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Résumé
The Behavior of Animals
An updated view of animal behavior studies, featuring global experts The Behavior of Animals, Second Edition provides a broad overview of the current state of animal behavior studies with contributions from international experts. This edition includes new chapters on hormones and behavior, individuality, and human evolution. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and are supported by color illustrations, informative callouts, and accessible presentation of technical information.
Contenu
Table of Contents
Foreword by Robert A. Hinde
Preface
The Study of Animal Behavior
Johan J. Bolhuis, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, and Jerry A. Hogan
Stimulus Perception
Jorg-Peter Ewert
Motivation and Emotion
Jerry A. Hogan
Biological Rhythms and Behavior
Ralph E. Mistlberger and Benjamin Rusak
Brain and Behavior
David F. Sherry
Hormones and Behavior
Jacques Balthazart and Gregory F. Ball
Development of Behavior
Johan J. Bolhuis
Learning and Memory
Kimberly Kirkpatrick and Geoffrey Hall
Animal Cognition
Jerry A. Hogan
Applied Animal Behavior and Animal Welfare
David Fraser and Daniel M. Weary
The Function of Behavior
Luc-Alain Giraldeau and Jerry A. Hogan
Mate Choice, Mating Systems, and Sexual Selection
Anders Pape Moller
Animal Personality, the Study of Individual Behavioral Differences
Denis Reale and Pierre-Oliver Montiglio
Animal Communication
William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki
Evolution of Behavior
Michael J. Ryan
Human Evolution
Ian Tattersall
Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behavior
Gillian R. Brown, Catharine P. Cross, and Kevin N. Laland
Author Index
Subject Index