Exploring Animal Behavior Readings from American Scientist

Name: Exploring Animal Behavior Readings from American Scientist
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ISBN: 9780878938162

ISBN-10: 0878938168

ISBN-13: 9780878938162

Edition: 4th 2005

Authors: Sherman P.; Alcock J., John Alcock

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Written to complement John Alcock's 'Animal Behavior', this illustrated reader is designed to enhance courses based on other textbooks as well. Indeed, the book can stand alone as a sampler of research approaches and organisms in animal behaviour.

Book details

Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 321
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Scientists, scholars, knaves, and fools



Integrity in science



Conduct, misconduct and the structure of science



The science of scientific writing



Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy



Primate social behavior in a changing world



Why male ground squirrels disperse



From society to genes with the honey bee



Animal thinking



What do animals think about numbers?



The nature of emotions



Mozart's starling



Testosterone and aggression in birds



Prenatal hormone exposure and sexual variation



Physiology of helping in Florida scrub-jays



Shaping brain sexuality



Aerial defense tactics of flying insects



The evolution of communal nest-weaving in ants



Untangling the evolution of the Web



Why do bowerbirds build bowers?



Early canid domestication : the farm-fox experiment



Protecting ourselves from food



The evolution of sexual differences in insects



Animal genitalia and female choice



Prairie-vole partnerships



Mating behavior and hermaphroditism in coral reef fishes



Avian siblicide



The strategies of human mating



The evolution of jealousy



Why ravens share



Making decisions in the family : an evolutionary perspective



Naked mole-rats



The honey bee colony as a superorganism



The adaptive value of religious ritual