Manual of parrot behavior /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Luescher, Andrew U.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Blackwell, [2006]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Classification and the status of wild populations of parrots
  • Behavior of wild Amazona and rhynchpsitta parrots, with comparative insight from other psittacines
  • Parrot conservation, trade, and reintroduction
  • Sensory capacities of parrots
  • Social behavior of psittacine birds
  • Captive parrot nutrition : interactions with anatomy, physiology, and behavior
  • Comfort behavior and sleep
  • Parrot reproductive behavior, or, who associates, who mates, and who cares?
  • Nest box preferences
  • Hand-rearing : behavioral impacts and implications for captive parrot welfare
  • Behavioral development of psittacine companions : neonates, neophytes, and fledglings
  • Handler attitude and chick development
  • Grey parrot cognition and communication
  • Behavior analysis and parrot learning
  • Behavior classes in the veterinary hospital : preventing problems before they start
  • Clinical evaluation of psittacine behavioral disorders
  • Diagnostic workup of suspected behavioral problems
  • Aggressive behavior in pet birds
  • Parrot vocalization
  • Parrots and fear
  • Problem sexual behaviors of companion parrots
  • Mate trauma
  • Feather-picking disorder in pet birds
  • Psittacine behavioral pharmacotherapy
  • Behavior of captive psittacids in the breeding aviary
  • Housing and management considerations for problem prevention
  • Captive parrot welfare
  • The classification and the status of wild populations of parrots
  • Behavior of wild Amazona and rhynchpsitta parrots, with comparative insight from other psittacids
  • Parrot conservation, trade, and reintroduction
  • Sensory capacities of parrots
  • Social behavior of psittacine birds
  • Captive parrot nutrition : interactions with anatomy, physiology, and behavior
  • Comfort behavior and sleep
  • Parrot reproductive behavior, or, who associates, who mates, and who cares
  • Nest box preferences
  • Hand-rearing : behavioral impacts and implications for captive parrot welfare
  • Behavioral development of psittacine companions : neonates, neophytes, and fledglings
  • Handler attitude and chick development
  • Grey parrot cognition and communication
  • How parrots learn
  • Behavior classes in the veterinary hospital : preventing problems before they start
  • Diagnostic workup of suspected behavioral problems
  • Aggressive behavior in pet birds
  • Parrot vocalization
  • Parrots and fear
  • Problem sexual behaviors of companion parrots
  • Mate trauma
  • Feather picking disorder in pet birds
  • Psittacine behavioral pharmacotherapy
  • Behavior of captive psittacids in the breeding aviary
  • Housing and management considerations for problem prevention
  • Captive parrot welfare