Spriner, 2016. — 325 p. — (Animal Signals and Communication). — ISBN: 3319486888. This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and...
London: Pegasus books, 2015. — 400 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-68177-201-1. A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries " Wild Sex ", which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it — every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue whales. But if you think humans have...
Elsevier Publishing Company, New York, 1963. — 933 p. The articles in this book cover the wide field of bio-acoustics and are used by experts in the various fields represented. In general, the articles may be divided into three groups: (1) the origin of animal sounds; (2) the animal reception of sound; and (3) the use made by the animal of either sound generation or sound...
25th-anniversary edition — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. — 256 p. The first edition of Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into the most basic human needs and behaviors. Still considered a classic, this...
Springer, 2019. — 166 p. This book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent studying them in the wild, and shows how the contrasting nature of these two species is also reflected in human nature. The most important differences between bonobos and chimpanzees, our closest relatives,...
Springer, 2019. — 166 p. This book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent studying them in the wild, and shows how the contrasting nature of these two species is also reflected in human nature. The most important differences between bonobos and chimpanzees, our closest relatives,...
Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1954. — 96 p. The associations into which feeding birds enter are many and varied. The simplest are bands of birds brought together by gregariousness; one of the most complex has elements that have earned for it the term "symbiosis." And yet the great diversity is not without order. Surveying the many types of flocking or associations...
Publisher: Princeton University Press (September 20, 2010). 280 p. Honeybees make decisions collectively-and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist...
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. — 336 p. — ISBN13: 9780316817226. Learn about the behavior and lives of your favorite birds. There are three volumes of Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior and each volume covers 25 species. Book is richly illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink drawings and contains a wealth of information — about each bird's songs, calls, displays,...
New York: Little Brown & Co, 1983. - 336 p. ISBN13: 978-0316817264. This volume in the Stokes Nature Guide series offers detailed descriptions of species-specific wild bird behavior. The twenty-five birds covered here include the Canada goose, the tree swallow, the mockingbird, the eastern kingbird, the common flicker, and the American gold finch. For an example of the kind of...
Chelsea House Publications; 1 edition, 2009. - 120 p. ISBN10: 1604130903 ISBN13: 978-1604130904 Animal courtship is a process that results in two mature members of a species becoming a couple, usually with the intent to mate and produce offspring. Different species of bugs, birds, fish, shellfish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals have their unique sets of courtship rules and...
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