Animal Behavior
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The Animal Behavior
A guide to the hows and whys of animals interacting with each other and with the world around them.
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This textbook explores the mechanisms and evolution of animal behavior, including neural, hormonal, and genetic substrates of behavior; foraging; anti-predator defenses; mating systems and sexual selection; social behavior; communication; parental care; kin selection and recognition; and territoriality. Associated laboratory exercises will provide hands-on experience for many of these concepts.
Contents
Chapter 1. History, Aims and Approaches
Chapter 2. Development, Learning and Genetics
Chapter 3. Proximate Mechanisms of Behavior
Chapter 4. Functional Significance of Behavior
Chapter 5. Phylogeny, and Behavior
Chapter 6. Behavior Case Studies
- Communication Systems
- Spatial Distributions
- Mating Systems
- other
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- Army Ants
- Honeybee Foraging Behavior
- Penguins
- Sea Turtles
Chapter 7. Comparative Human Behavior
Original modules that are now included in the text
these modules contain the original histories for the material that has been merged into different sections of the book
- Cuckoo Brood Parasitism
- Operant Conditioning
- Natural Selection
- Sexual Selection
- Speciation
- Mimicry and Camouflage
- The Peppered Moth Studies
- The Monarch Butterfly
- Reproductive Strategies
- Lek Polygyny
- Polyandry
- Altruism
- Eusociality
- Memory
- Bird Song
- The Parallels between Bird Song and Human Language Learning
- Language Learning
- Endocrinology
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroanatomy
- Pheromones
