Animal Behavior: New Research
Author:   Emilie A Weber ,  Lara H Krause
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781604567823


Pages:   227
Publication Date:   26 November 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Animal Behavior: New Research


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This book is devoted to recent research on animal behaviour which relates to what an animal does and why it does it. The types of behaviours exhibited are rich and various. Some are genetically determined, or instinctive, while others are learned behaviours. The desire to understand the animal world has made ethology a rapidly growing field, and since the turn of the 21st century, many prior understandings related to diverse fields such as animal communication, personal symbolic name use, animal emotions, animal culture and learning, and even sexual conduct, long thought to be well understood, have been revolutionised

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Author:   Emilie A Weber ,  Lara H Krause
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 18.00cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781604567823


ISBN 10:   1604567821
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   26 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface; Sexual Selection, Mate Choice, and Primate Preferences; Female Mate Choice in Non-human Mammals; Partition test and Sexual Motivation in Male Mice; Gaze Following in Non-Human Animals: The Corvid Example; How Different Host Species Influence Parasitism Patterns and Larval Competition of Acoustically-Orienting Parasitoid Flies (Tachinidae: Ormiini); Insights into the Acoustic Behaviour of Polar Pinnipeds -- Current Knowledge and Emerging Techniques of Study; Food Hoarding in the New Zealand Robin: A Review and Synthesis; Discriminative Learning, Learning Generalisation and Masking Tests as Three Strategies to Assess Olfactory Discrimination; Constraints and the Evolution of Mutual Ornamentation; Index.

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