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| Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Basic Elements of Animal Behaviour | |
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| The Study of Animal Behaviour and its Applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The History of Animal Behaviour Studies | |
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| Schools of Thought of the 20th Century | |
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| Modern Approaches to Ethology | |
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| Applied Ethology | |
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| The Field of Applied Ethology | |
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| Behaviour Genetics, Evolution and Domestication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| To What Degree is Behaviour Genetically Inherited? | |
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| Genetic Versus Environmental Influence on Behaviour | |
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| Single Gene Influences | |
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| How do Genes Affect Behaviour? | |
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| Localizing Genes | |
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| Evolution of Behaviour | |
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| Tracing the Evolutionary History of Behaviour | |
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| Modification and Ritualization | |
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| The Function of Behaviour | |
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| Domestication: an Evolutionary Case History | |
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| Which Animals were Domesticated? | |
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| Behavioural Effects of Domestication | |
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| Behaviour and Physiology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Central Regulation of Behaviour | |
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| Sleep | |
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| Regulation of Food Intake and Eating | |
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| Reproductive and Maternal Behaviour | |
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| Stress-related Behaviour | |
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| Motivation and the Organization of Behaviour | |
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| What is Motivation and Why is it Important? | |
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| Motivational States and the Organization of Behaviour | |
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| Models of Motivation | |
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| Motivation and Applied Ethology | |
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| Conclusions and Links to Other Chapters | |
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| Learning and Cognition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Associative Learning | |
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| Memory | |
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| Object Permanence | |
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| Discrimination, Generalization, Categorization and Concept Formation | |
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| Social Cognition | |
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| Cognition and Emotion | |
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| Animal Cognition and Animal Welfare | |
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| Social and Reproductive Behaviour | |
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| What is Social Behaviour? | |
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| Group Living | |
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| Communication | |
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| Natural Selection | |
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| Common Social Behaviours | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Abonormal Behaviour, Stress and Welfare | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Behavioural Disorders | |
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| Stress | |
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| Animal Welfare | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Human-Animal Relations | |
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| The Human in the Animals' World | |
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| What is the Human-Animal Relationship? | |
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| Factors Affecting the Quality of the Animal's Relationship to Humans | |
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| Sensitive Periods | |
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| Genetic Background and Personality | |
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| Social Learning: Social Environment | |
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| The Human as a Social Partner | |
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| Human-Animal Communication | |
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| Practical Relevance: the Significance of Human-Animal Relationships for Welfare | |
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| Species-Specific Behaviour of Some Important Domestic Animals | |
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| Behaviour of Fowl and Other Domesticated Birds | |
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| Origins | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Foraging, Feeding and Drinking | |
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| Body Maintenance | |
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| Diurnal Rhythm | |
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| Sexual Behaviour | |
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| Egg Laying, Incubation and Behaviour at Hatching | |
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| Care of Offspring | |
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| Offspring Development | |
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| Behaviour of Horses | |
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| Origin | |
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| Time Budgets | |
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| Foraging and Feeding Behaviour | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Mating and Sexual Behaviour | |
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| Behaviour at Birth | |
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| Care of Offspring, Including Nursing | |
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| Offspring Development and Management | |
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| Behaviour of Cattle | |
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| Origins of Cattle | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Foraging and Feeding Behaviour | |
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| Diurnal Rhythm | |
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| Mating and Sexual Behaviour | |
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| Parturition | |
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| Care of Offspring, Including Nursing | |
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| Offspring Development | |
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| The Behaviour of Sheep and Goats | |
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| Origins | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Foraging and Feeding | |
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| Habitat Use | |
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| Mating/Sexual Behaviour | |
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| Maternal Behaviour at Birth | |
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| Maternal Behaviour during Lactation | |
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| Offspring Development | |
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| Management and Welfare | |
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| Behaviour of Pigs | |
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| Origins | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Perception, Communication and Cognition | |
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| Foraging and Feeding Behaviour | |
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| Coping with the Environment | |
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| Mating Behaviour | |
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| Periparturient Bahaviour | |
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| Behaviour during Lactation | |
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| Piglet Behavioural Development | |
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| Behaviour of Dogs | |
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| Origins and Domestication | |
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| Social Behaviour | |
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| Foraging and Feeding Behaviour | |
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| Communication | |
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| Biological Rhythms | |
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| Sexual Behaviour | |
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| Behaviour at Birth and Parental Care | |
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| Development of Behaviour | |
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| Behaviour of Cats | |
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| Origins and Domestication | |
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| Effects of Domestication | |
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| Hunting Behaviour and Object Play | |
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| Social Behaviour and Communication | |
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| Courtship and Reproductive Behaviour | |
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| Dominance | |
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| Ontogeny of Behaviour | |
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| Socialization | |
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| The Ethology of Cat-Human Relationships | |
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| The Behaviour of Laboratory Mice and Rats | |
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| General Biology | |
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| Origin and Domestication History | |
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| Diurnal Rhythm, Sleep and Grooming Behaviour | |
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| General Activity, Foraging and Feeding Behaviour | |
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| Social Organization and Social Behaviour | |
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| Mate Choice, Mating Behaviour and Parental Care | |
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| Housing and Welfare | |
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| Sensory and Motor Deprivation | |
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| Lack of Critical Resources | |
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| Phenotypic Mismatch and Developmental Disruption | |
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| Social Conflict | |
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| Environmental Stressors | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Index | |