Zoology & Animal Sciences

During the past quarter century, there has been a tremendous expansion in our knowledge about gastropods, their behavior and their neurobiology. We...

Feral pigeons are among the most familiar and abundant of the birds of the world. They are a major urban pest species, living closely in associatio...

N.N. Ladygina-Kohts earned her degree in comparative psychology at Moscow University in 1917, then became the first curator of the Darwin Museum in...

Originally published in 1937, Pavlov and his School provides fascinating biographical information about Pavlov himself and is a clear and concise a...

A thrilling face-to-face encounter with animals in their own environment – their elaborate displays, intimate lives, and extraordinary behaviourDid...

ONE OF USA TODAY'S “20 SUMMER BOOKS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS” In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a...

How dominant culture from sexism and homophobia to racism, capitalism, ableism, and more has limited the science of animal behavior, and how we can...

The sense of smell is at least equally important to may animals as sight and hearing. This important fact had previously been largely overlooked an...

Clean and environmentally sound disposal of animal waste in the quantities that Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) produce can only be ...

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

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for t...

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

The Laboratory Small Ruminant details basic information and common procedures for individuals performing research with small ruminants. Details inc...

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for t...

This volume contains original contributions from an international group of authors with the highest reputations in their respective areas of phylog...

Arguing that historical analysis is an important, yet heretofore largely underexplored dimension of scholarship in animal geographies, this book se...

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...

Consciously or not, wildlife managers generally act from a theoretical basis, although they may not be fully versed in the details or ramifications...

"Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the ...

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