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Understanding Animal Behaviour
A highly readable and accessible introduction to current knowledge about the way animals behave; Comprehensive and authoritative; Beautifully illustrated throughout by wildlife artist Catherine Putman.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Dunbeath :
Whittles,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Understanding animal behaviour; 2 Behavioural reflexes; 3 Linking responses and the co-ordinationof more complex behaviours; 4 Receiving stimuli and analysingthe incoming information; 5 Motivation and its capacity tomodify simple response patterns; 6 'Unpredictable' behaviours: redirectedand displacement activities; 7 Learning and its effects on behaviour; 8 Behaviour genetics and theevolution of behaviour; 9 Adaptiveness of behaviour: optimising the returns; 10 Social organisation and social behaviour
- 11 Reproductive behaviour andreproductive strategies12 Mating behaviour and mate choice; 13 Co-operative breeding andarguments about altruism; 14 Territoriality and aggression; 15 How animals navigate; 16 'If we could talk to the animals ... '; Index of keywords; Index of species mentioned in the text