Animal Behavior
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A guide to the hows and whys of animals interacting with each 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.
[edit] Contents
[edit] Chapter 1. History, Aims and Approaches
[edit] Chapter 2. Development, Learning and Genetics
[edit] Chapter 3. Proximate Mechanisms of Behavior
[edit] Chapter 4. Functional Significance of Behavior
[edit] Chapter 5. Phylogeny, and Behavior
[edit] Chapter 6. Behavior Case Studies
- Spatial Distributions
- Animal Behavior/Army Ants - Social Hierarchy, Life Cycles, and Migration
- Animal Behavior/Honeybee Foraging Behavioral Analysis
- Penguins
- Sea Turtles
[edit] original modules that are already 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
- Human Language
- The Parallels between Bird Song and Human Language Learning
- Language Learning
- Endocrinology
- Neurophysiology
- Neuroanatomy
