The Natural History Reader in Animal Behavior / / ed. by Howard Topoff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Altmann, Jeanne,; Bruemmer, Fred,; Bush, Betsy,; Byers, John A.,; Collias, Nicholas E.,; Cooke, Fred,; Curry-Lindahl, Kai,; Dolhinow, Phyllis,; Ewald, Paul W.,; Fitzpatrick, John W.,; Gottlieb, Gilbert,; Jones, W. Thomas,; Kalmijn, Adrianus J.,; Kaston, B. J.,; Kluger, Matthew J.,; Luft, Joan,; Martin, R. D.,; Morton, Martin L.,; Roeder, Kenneth D.,; Rose, Kenneth Jon,; Shaw, Evelyn,; Sherman, Paul W.,; Simon, Carol A.,; Tavolga, William N.,; Topoff, Howard,; Walcott, Charles,; Wellington, William G.,; Wells, Martin J.,; Woolfenden, Glen E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Topoff, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Original Publication Dates of Articles in Natural History Magazine --; Introduction --; Additional Readings --; Part 1. Sensory Processes and Orientation --; 1. A Special Light to Steer By --; 2. The Shark’s Sixth Sense --; 3. Night Fighters in a Sonic Duel --; 4. The Pit and the Antlion --; 5. Bird Navigation --; 6. Psychophysics and Hearing in Fish --; 7. Invertebrate Learning --; Part 2. Evolution and Behavior --; 8. Evolution of Nest Building --; 9. Evolution of the Web --; 10. The Importance of Being Feverish --; 11. Goose Mates --; 12. Strategies of Reproduction --; Part 3. Social Organization --; 13. Four Months of the Ground Squirrel --; 14. The Helpful Shall Inherit the Scrub --; 15. The Hummingbird and the Calorie --; 16. Invasion of the Booty Snatchers --; 17. Fish in Schools --; 18. Masters of the Tongue Flick --; 19. Peaceable Peccaries --; 20. New Theory on a Fabled Exodus --; Part 4. Behavioral Development --; 21. Components of Recognition in Ducklings --; 22. Mother Baboon --; 23. A Mound of One’s Own --; 24. Sea Lion Shenanigans --; 25. At Play in the Fields --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231895675; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/topo93832
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Howard Topoff.

Studies the nature of comparative animal behavior through the synthesis of principles and techniques from Zoology and Psychology and observations of animal behavior made over centuries.