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Animal Behavior, Third Edition covers animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The book's authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost sixty years of combined experience as university professors, much of that teaching animal beh...

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Main Authors: Breed, Michael D. (Author), Moore, Janice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London San Diego : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2022].
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Animal behavior.
Table of Contents:
  • Of cockroaches and wolves: framing animal behavior
  • Neurobiology and endocrinology for animal behaviorists
  • Behavioral genetics
  • Homeostasis and time budgets
  • Learning
  • Cognition
  • Communication
  • Movement
  • Foraging
  • Self-defense
  • Mating systems
  • Nesting, parenting, and territoriality
  • Social behavior, cooperation, and kinship
  • Comparative social behavior
  • Conservation and behavior.