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Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field : an Hypothesis-testing Approach to the Development, Causation, Function, and Evolution of Animal Behavior.
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field is designed to provide a variety of exercises that engage students actively in all phases of scientific investigation, from formulating research questions through interpreting and presenting final results. It attempts to share the collective teaching...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington :
Elsevier,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Describing Behavior; Chapter 1. Learning to Describe and Quantify Animal Behavior; Chapter 2. Developing Operational Definitions and Measuring Interobserver Reliability Using House Crickets (Acheta domesticus); Part 2: Causation; Chapter 3. Courtship, Mating, and Sex Pheromones in the Mealworm Beetle (Tenebrio molitor); Chapter 4. Courtship and Mate Attraction in Parasitic Wasps; Chapter 5. Chemoreception in Lizards.
- Chapter 6. Behavioral Thermoregulation in Field Populations of Amphibian LarvaeChapter 7. Temperature Dependence of the Electric Organ Discharge in Weakly Electric Fish; Chapter 8. Observing and Analyzing Human Nonverbal Communication; Chapter 9. Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics: An Ant's-Eye View; Chapter 10. Hummingbird Foraging Patterns: Experiments Using Artificial Flowers; Chapter 11. Honey Bee Foraging Behavior; Chapter 12. Individual Constancy t.