Animal Behaviour

Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ven...

A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent an...

First Published in 1997. The papers in this volume on invertebrate behaviour, predominantly ant behaviour, are presented as a tribute to T. C. Schn...

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperativ...

While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior in which the matriarch lifted her foot a...

Career Paths in Human-Animal Interaction for Social and Behavioral Scientists is an essential text for students and professionals wanting to pursue...

A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos in Outback Australia ...

Did you know that chickens have different alarm calls for different predators? This fascinating dictionary covers every aspect of animal behaviour...

This volume is based on the proceedings of a conference held in Sicily, in October 1991. It illustrates the developments in the field of behavioura...

Narrowing the gulf between humans and animals

Recent ideas and experimental studies suggest that the relationship between parasitism and host behaviour has been a powerful shaping force in the ...

This book brings together for the first time, a collection of classic texts combined with a number of contemporary syntheses on the widely studied ...

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to ...

In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that anima...

Given their roles in the ecosystem, raptors are widely considered the flagship or umbrella species among birds. Most species undertake a seasonal j...

Think like you’ve got nine brains, feel like you’ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms. ...

First published in 1986. This book is concerned with the transition of animal learning from a strict stimulus-response (S-R) approach to a more cog...

Do Animals have ideas? Do they experience pain like humans? Do they think about objects that they cannot see? About situations that have occurred i...

First published in 1984. In this collection of essays, Schneirla is identified as a scientist and citizen unafraid to hold and present unpopular id...

The greatest complexity of the immune response is shown by vertebrates which are endowed with innate and acquired immunity. Immunological studies p...

Dramatic changes in the environment, including habitat degradation and climate change, have focused attention on how individuals and populations re...

This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in ...

This volume is based on the 10th annual Harvard Symposium for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. The first Harvard Symposium was devoted to sig...