Animal Behaviour

A new way to look at the mysteries of the animal mind What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behaviora...

In this first comprehensive synthesis of the literature on food hoarding in animals, Stephen B. Vander Wall discusses how animals store food, how t...

Based on three years of study in the Serengeti National Park, George B. Schaller's "The Serengeti Lion" describes the vast impact of the lion and o...

Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning t...

Long-lived, slow to reproduce, and often hidden beneath the water's surface, whales and dolphins (cetaceans) have remained elusive subjects for sci...

John L. Hoogland draws on 16 years of research at Wind Cave Na tional Park, South Dakota, in the United States, to provide this account of prairie ...

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect c...

Plants face a daunting array of creatures which eat them, bore into them and use virtually every plant part for food or shelter. However, plants ar...

Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the point of departure for research in the theory of emotion and expression. Although he lacked the modern res...

This text provides a comprehensive account of carnivore social behaviour. Synthesizing more than a decade of research in the wild, it offers a deta...

Walk near woods or water on any spring or summer night and you will hear a bewildering (and sometimes deafening) chorus of frog, toad, and insect c...

This text takes the reader on a guided tour of scientific research concerning animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are t...