Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories-and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior.
The three volumes of Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do cover the breadth of the field, addressing causation, development, function, and evolution in a wide range of animals, from invertebrates to humans. Inspired by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen's work, the first two volumes follow Tinbergen's four classic questions of animal behavior, while the third volume supplies integrated examples of Tinbergen's investigative process applied in specific cases.
Written in an engaging, accessible manner ideal for college students as well as general audiences, this evidence-based collection provides a fascinating tour of animal behaviorists' findings, such as how animal communication can be truthful or deceitful, the deadly serious business behind clashes in the "battle of the sexes," and how documentation of animal behavior can lead to a deeper understanding of human behavior. Each chapter provides both historical background and information about current developments in animal behavior knowledge.
Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories-and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior.
The three volumes of Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do cover the breadth of the field, addressing causation, development, function, and evolution in a wide range of animals, from invertebrates to humans. Inspired by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen's work, the first two volumes follow Tinbergen's four classic questions of animal behavior, while the third volume supplies integrated examples of Tinbergen's investigative process applied in specific cases.
Written in an engaging, accessible manner ideal for college students as well as general audiences, this evidence-based collection provides a fascinating tour of animal behaviorists' findings, such as how animal communication can be truthful or deceitful, the deadly serious business behind clashes in the "battle of the sexes," and how documentation of animal behavior can lead to a deeper understanding of human behavior. Each chapter provides both historical background and information about current developments in animal behavior knowledge.
1. Integrated Studies of Stickleback Behavior
Alison M. Bell
2. Friends and Enemies: How Social Dynamics Shape Communication and
Song Learning in Song Sparrows
Michael D. Beecher and Çaglar Akçay
3. A Tale of Two Spiders: Investigating Communication in Two Unique
Model Species Using Video Digitization and Playback
George Uetz and David Clark
4. Studying Lifelong Male-Male Partnerships in a Tropical Bird
David B. McDonald
5. Be Loved, Be Prey, Be Eaten
Rachel A. Page, Michael J. Ryan, and Ximena E. Bernal
6. Siblicide in Birds
Douglas W. Mock
7. Referential Signals: A Window into Animal Minds
Carolynn L. Smith and Christopher S. Evans
8. Cotton-top Tamarins: Research for Conservation and Understanding
Human Behavior
Charles T. Snowdon
9. Avian Brood Parasitism: How to Spot a Foreign Egg in the
Nest?
Mark E. Hauber and Jason Low
10. How Animals Remember Places and Find Their Way Around
David F. Sherry
11. Cognitive Repertoire, Cognitive Legacies, and Collective
Reasoning: The Next Frontiers in Conservation Behavior
Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C
12. Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Potentially Adaptive
Individual Differences in Human Mate Preferences
Lisa M. DeBruine, Benedict C. Jones, S. Craig Roberts, Anthony C.
Little, and Christopher D. Watkins
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
About the Editorial Board
Index
Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories—and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior.
Ken Yasukawa, PhD, is Mead Family Professor of science and professor of biology at Beloit College, WI. He holds a doctorate in zoology from Indiana University and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Rockefeller University Field Research Center.
A notable strength of the entire collection is that the
contributors try to explain not just what is currently understood
about their topic, but also why they are interested in it and how
they go about asking and answering the questions they raise. This
set should be part of all academic libraries. Highly
recommended.
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