Perspectives on Animal Behavior / Edition 2

by Judith Goodenough, Betty McGuire, Robert A. Wallace

Overview

Based upon ecological and environmental principles, it introduces students to scientific reasoning and methodology while also addressing development and mechanisms. Includes classical studies that form the foundation of this field but concentrates on more current work in order to present the thinking and experiments which have led to modern understanding of animal behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471295020
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/28/2000
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	8.84(w) x 11.32(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

JUDITH GOODENOUGH, from the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, has studied biological rhythms in creatures from planaria to finches to deer mice, and even in the green alga Chlamydomonas.

BETTY MCGUIRE is from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on parental behavior, reproduction, and ecology of small mammals, and she occasionally dabbles in work with larger domestic animals such as dogs and horses.

ELIZABETH JAKOB, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, studies the behavior of spiders, asking questions about their learning, perception, and interactions with conspecifics and with other species. She has carried out field projects in California, Mexico, Massachusetts, and Maine.

Table of Contents

APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR.
History of the Study of Animal Behavior.
Genetic Analysis of Behavior.
Natural Selection and Ecological Analysis of Behavior.
Learning.
Physiological Analysis--Nerve Cells and Behavior.
Physiological Analysis of Behavior--The Endocrine System.
The Development of Behavior.
BEHAVIOR OF THE INDIVIDUAL SURVIVING IN ITS ENVIRONMENT.
Biological Clocks.
Orientation in Space.
Mechanisms of Orientation.
Foraging.
Antipredator Behavior.
Sexual Reproduction and Sexual Selection.
Parental Care and Mating Systems.
BEHAVIOR OF GROUPS--SOCIAL BEHAVIOR.
Sociality and Dispersion.
Maintaining Group Cohesion 1: Description and Evolution of Communication.
Maintenance of Group Cohesion 2: Functions of Communication and Contact.
Altruism.
Summary.
Appendix.
References.
Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

New edition of a reference that presents a current, balanced, and integrated view of animal behavior by including information on both the mechanisms and the evolution of behavior as well as all major approaches to the field. Goodenough (biology, U. of Massachusetts) and Betty Mcguire (biological sciences, Smith College) present 19 chapters that discuss approaches to the study of animal behavior (genetic and physiological analysis, natural selection and ecological analysis, learning, and development); behavior of individual surviving in environment; and the behavior of groups<-->social behavior. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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