Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 537 p. This new edition ofAnimal Behaviorhas been thoroughly rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behavior. The scope of the changes for the tenth edition, however, is much more all-encompassing than that of past revisions. Thoughtful suggestions from many readers inspired a major reorganization of the material, such...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2020. — 332 p. The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of the mind and the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated introductory text, Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems, and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0195163370; ISBN13: 978-0195163377 In Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the...
NY: Black Dog & Levental Pub., 2014. — 480 p. The world's "most watchable animals" are introduced here with a focus on their behaviors. Whether you're on a round-the-world safari or visiting the nearest zoo, this book tells what you may see and what it means. General arrangement is by the aniimals' natural habitat, with sections for African jungles, plains, and waterways; Asian...
3rd edition. — Academic Press, 2022. — 602 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-819558-1. 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 60 years of combined experience as university professors, much of that teaching animal behavior....
2nd edition. — Academic Press, 2016. — 547 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-801532-2. Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors to this textbook, much of that...
London: Macmillan Limited, 1977. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-8129-0688-8. Inside the Animal World provides fascinating insights into mating rituals and feeding habits, the instincts of the predator and the fight-or-flight response of the hunted. The "language" by which various species communicate, their intelligence and capacity to learn, their odd and still-puzzling behavior, are...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 512 p. Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they’ll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals - from invertebrates to monkeys and apes - behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 512 p. Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they’ll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals - from invertebrates to monkeys and apes - behave in consistently different ways, meeting the criteria for what many define as...
4th edition. — Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4443-3949-9; 978-1-4051-1416-5. Natural Selection, Ecology and Behaviour Watching and wondering Natural selection Genes and behaviour Selfish individuals or group advantage? Phenotypic plasticity: climate change and breeding times Behaviour, ecology and evolution Further reading Topics for discussion Testing...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 108 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192853600, 13 978-0192853608. Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David...
University of Minnesota Press, 2016. - 276 p. “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, nor false stories about science but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a...
Springer, 2017. — 260 p. — ISBN: 331947500. This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different. Cand usually seen as conflicting. Cideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained...
Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018. — 244 p. — (Posthumanities). — ISBN10: 1517905656, 13 978-1517905651. Humanness is typically defined by our capacity for language and abstract thinking. Yet decades of research led by the primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has shown that chimpanzees and bonobos can acquire human language through signing and technology. Drawing on this research,...
Cadmos Verlag, 2016. — (Cadmos Hundewelt). Das englische COAPE-Institus legt bereits seit vielen Jahren den Fokus seines Interesses auf die Emotionen von Tieren. Neuere Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung bestätigen immer mehr, wie stark Emotionen unser Verhalten, und das von Tieren mit ähnlichen Hirnstrukturen steuern. Das EMRA-System, die Herangehensweise von COAPE an...
Mariner Books, 1990. File found online, no illustrations. Perhaps the best book ever written about animal behavior, Through a Window is also essential reading for anyone seeking a better grasp of human behavior. In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall wrote of her first ten years at Gombe (Tanzania). In Through a Window she brings the story up to the present, painting a much more...
Mariner Books, 2010. — 355 p. How can we give animals the best life — for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on...
MIT Press, 2003. — 701 p. — ISBN13: 9780262582230. When animals, including humans, communicate, they convey information and express their perceptions of the world. Because different organisms are able to produce and perceive different signals, the animal world contains a diversity of communication systems. Based on the approach laid out in the 1950s by Nobel laureate Nikolaas...
2nd Ed. — Academic Press, 2019. — 3118 p. — ISBN: 978-0-128132-51-5. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition, the latest update since the 2010 release, builds upon the solid foundation established in the first edition. Updated sections include Host-parasite interactions, Vertebrate social behavior, and the introduction of ‘overview essays' that boost the book's...
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 160 p. This volume represents a short, yet systematic introduction to the topic of “animal communication”, in a way that blends natural sciences and humanities into a multidisciplinary approach. It is structured in a way that allows students and teachers in this field to employ it as a useful pedagogical tool, and it is written...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. – 310 p. This volume brings together primary data from a variety of primate species living in both natural habitats and experimental settings, and explores the variables that may play a role in primates' behavioral strategies. Taken together, these studies demonstrate that predator sensitive foraging is relevant to many primates, of various...
Avery, 2010. — 164 p. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarmers. A fascinating new take on collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding on solving our own...
Wesleyan, 2018. — 264 p. Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music’s taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and...
Washington: American Ornithologists' Union, 1984. — 59 p. ISBN13: 978-0943610405. Charles Darwin (1871) introduced the concept of sexual selection with illustrations of birds that display in leks. He viewed sexual selection as a process of evolutionary change that is distinct from natural selection insofar as it explains the evolution of characters useful in attracting females...
Wallingford, CT: CABI Publishing, 2002. — 320 p. ISBN13: 978-0851995977. This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how it has affected the behavior of captive wild and domesticated animals. Three broad themes are addressed: genetic contributions to the process of domestication, experimental contributions to the process of domestication, the...
Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2015. — 168 p. — ISBN: 0748682198, 0748682201. From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on 'Animals as Humans', 'Animal Ontology', 'Animal Life' and...
Wiley, 1996. — 336 p. The remarkable story of a "talking" chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our species. He has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "NOVA" documentary. He is directly responsible for discoveries that have forced the scientific community to recast...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 288 p. — 3rd ed. — ISBN: 9781107025028 The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables....
2nd Edition — Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 372 p. Can animals think? How do pigeons find their way home? Do dogs feel guilt? Exploring animal behavior and intelligence, this second edition of the popular book Animal Cognition investigates these questions and more. With a wealth of fascinating case studies, it covers all the key topics, from communication to navigation, with...
New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1971. — 321 p. List of Plates. Servant of Science. General Description. From Jungle to Laboratory. Good Tempers and Bad. Social Behavior. Life’s Cycles. Male and Female. Mentality. The World of the Chimpanzee. Looking toward Intelligence. Experience the Teacher. Memory, Foresight, and Insight. Language and Symbolism. Care and Handling. House and...
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