Animal Behaviour

Originally published in 1953, this is a classic study in animal behaviour, drawing on the author’s own extraordinary studies of insects, fish, and ...

Crustacean Nervous Systems and their Control of Behavior is the third volume of the series The Natural History of the Crustacea. This volume is on ...

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a com...

In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines ...

The laws of animal behavior have been revised and revealed through research performed by zoologists, physiologists and experimental psychologists. ...

What parent hasn’t wondered “What do I do now?” as a baby cries or a teenager glares? Making babies may come naturally, but knowing how to raise th...

This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage’s best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and p...

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking such ques...

Thailand is home to over 350 species of reptiles, consisting of many kinds of turtles and tortoises, lizards, snakes and crocodiless. With its exte...

Thailand is home to over 350 species of reptiles, consisting of many kinds of turtles and tortoises, lizards, snakes and crocodiless. With its exte...

For many agricultural crops, bees play a vital role as pollinators, and this book discusses the interplay among bees, agriculture and the environme...

This book has three primary themes: identification, natural history, and conservation. This is the first guide yet produced to the amphibians and r...

This second volume in the Natural History of the Crustacea series examines how crustaceans-the different body shapes and adaptations of which are d...

From eye-witness accounts of elephants apparently mourning the death of family members to an experiment that showed that hungry rhesus monkeys woul...

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in ...

Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently mo...

What wouldn’t animal-loving humans do to create the perfect modern habitat for their cherished animals? Not surprisingly, pet owners are forever se...

Another title in the ‘Quick Guide’ series, this compact little book is a handy identification guide to the surprising variety of nests built by sou...

The first important distinction between operant and Pavlovian conditioning was made in 1928 by Polish scientists Konorski and Miller. Unaware of th...

At first sight just a small brown bird, the dunnock's unobtrusive appearance belies its extraordinary behaviour and mating patterns. In this book N...

This book is about the genetics and behaviour of individuals within colonies of social insects - bees, wasps, ants, and termites. Colonial living i...

Our ability to think is one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-a...

Life is often a matter of gambles, pay-offs, and trade-offs, just like a game. This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulati...

Why does nature love symmetry? In Asymmetry, Developmental Stability and Evolution, Møller and Swaddle analyse the evolutionary implications of sym...

The Australian Zebra Finch is widely used by researchers and teachers in many scientific disciplines where it is the preferred subject for investig...

In this book, Itô presents data on tropical wasps which suggest that kin-selection has been overemphasized as an evolutionary explanation of social...

In 1953 a young female Japanese macaque called Imo began washing sweet potatoes before eating them, presumably to remove dirt and sand grains. Soon...

The diversity of social behaviour among birds and primates is surpassed only by members of the Hymenopteran insects (bees, ants, and wasps). The pa...

Behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long recognised Professor Tinbergen's great prescience in placing the study of animal behav...

The Oxford Animal Biology Series is an innovative new series of supplementary undergraduate texts in comparative animal biology. Topics within each...

This is the first scientific review of all factors affecting incubation in avian nests. These range from nest construction, egg characteristics and...

Why are animal signals reliable? This is the central problem for evolutionary biologists interested in signals. Of course, not all signals are reli...

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin first began formulating his theories on evolution much research has been conducted on primate cognit...

Minding Animals is concerned not only with the study of animal behaviour, but also with the innumerable ways in which humans interact with and intr...

This book considers the impact of modern phylogenetic comparative methods on the study of animal behaviour. It discusses the main issues that need ...

Obligatory brood parasites are birds that reproduce by laying their eggs in the nests of other species. This book discusses the ecological and evol...

This book explores the role of aggression in primate social systems and its implications for human behavior. Many people look to primate studies to...

This volume brings together evidence that animal behaviour varies geograhically, and explores some of the richness in phenomena, interpretations, a...

This is the seventh volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea. Chapters in this volume synthesize our current understan...

Parasites have evolved numerous complex and fascinating ways of interacting with their hosts. The subject attracts the interest of numerous biologi...

A key way that behavioral ecologists develop general theories of animal behavior is by studying one species or a closely related group of species--...

The migration of birds has forever amazed and confounded onlookers. How do birds find their way to their destinations? How do they withstand the da...

Nests, Eggs, and Incubation brings together a global team of leading authorities to provide a comprehensive overview of the fascinating and diverse...

The small, terrestrial eastern red-backed salamander is abundant on many forest floors of northeastern North America. Dr. Robert Jaeger and many of...

How intelligent are horses? Why do they toss their heads and what makes them paw the ground?After spending more than twenty years studying the body...

The Crustacea is one of the dominant invertebrate groups, displaying staggering diversity in form and function, and spanning the full spectrum of E...