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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Questions about animal behaviour | |
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| The escaping cockroach | |
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| The courtship of the sage grouse | |
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| Units of the nervous system | |
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| Reflexes and more complex behaviour | |
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| Diversity and unity in the study of behaviour | |
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| Summary | |
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| The development of behaviour | |
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| Young animals grow up | |
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| Instinct and learning in their biological setting | |
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| The characteristics of instinct and learning | |
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| Genetics and behaviour | |
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| Development and changes to the nervous system | |
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| Hormones and early development | |
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| Early experience and the diversity of parental behaviour | |
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| Play | |
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| imprinting | |
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| Bird song development | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Stimuli and communication | |
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| What stimuli are and how they act | |
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| Diverse sensory capacities | |
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| The problem of pattern recognition | |
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| Sign stimuli (key features) | |
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| 'Supernormal' stimuli | |
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| Neuroethological basis of sign stimuli | |
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| Other solutions for pattern recognition: generalized feature detection | |
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| Communication | |
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| What is communication? | |
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| Animal signals as effective stimuli | |
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| Honesty and deception in animal signalling | |
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| The honeybee dance | |
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| The calls of vervet monkeys | |
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| Summary | |
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| Decision-making and motivation | |
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| Decision-making on different time scales | |
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| Decision-making and 'motivation | |
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| Measuring motivation | |
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| Is motivation specific or general? | |
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| Goals as decision points | |
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| Homeostasis and negative feedback | |
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| Competition between motivations | |
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| InMbition/msinhibition | |
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| Decision-making with incomplete information: the role of signals | |
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| Conflict and'abnormal'behaviour | |
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| The physiology of decision-making | |
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| Hormones and sequences of behaviour | |
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| Conflict and physiological stress | |
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| Decision-making, motivation and animal welfare | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Learning and memory | |
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| Learning as part of adaptation | |
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| Sensitization and habituation | |
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| Associative learning | |
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| Specialized types of learning ability | |
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| What do animals actually learn? | |
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| Are there higher forms of learning in animals? | |
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| The comparative study of learning | |
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| Social learning and culture | |
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| The nature of animal minds | |
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| The nature of memory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Evolution | |
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| The adaptiveness of behaviour | |
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| Genes and behavioural evolution | |
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| Kin selection and inclusive fitness | |
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| Evolutionarily stable strategies | |
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| Sex1 and sexual selection | |
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| Species isolation and species selection | |
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| Tinbergen's fourth question: the phylogeny of behaviour | |
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| Summary | |
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| Social organization | |
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| The individual in the crowd | |
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| Advantages of grouping | |
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| Diverse social groups | |
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| Eusociality: division into castes | |
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| Territory in the social organization of vertebrates | |
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| Mating systems and social organization | |
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| Dominance in social systems | |
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| Diverse mammalian social behaviour | |
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| Primate social organization | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Figure credits | |
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| Index | |