The Natural History Reader in Animal Behavior /

The Natural History Reader in Animal Behavior / / 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.

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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