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Perspectives on animal behavior
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Perspectives on animal behavior

Author: Judith Goodenough; Betty McGuire; Robert A Wallace
Publisher: New York : Wiley, 2001.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Goodenough; Betty McGuire; Robert A Wallace
ISBN: 0471295027 9780471295020
OCLC Number: 44518115
Description: xiv, 542 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: Part 1, Approaches to the study of animal behavior. History of the study of animal behavior -- Genetic analysis of behavior -- Natural selection and ecological analysis of behavior -- Learning -- Physiological analysis--nerve cells and behavior -- Physiological analysis of behavior--the endocrine system -- The development of behavior -- Part 2, Behavior of individual surviving in envieonment. Biological clocks -- Mechanisms of orientation -- The ecology and evolution of spatial distribution -- Foraging -- Antipredator behavior -- Sexual selection -- Parental care and mating systems -- Part 3, Behavior of groups--social behavior. Sociality, conflict, and resolution -- Cooperation and altruism -- Maintaining group cohesion: description and functions of communication and contact -- Mainaining group cohesion: the evolution of communication.
Responsibility: Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Robert A. Wallace.
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