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Perspectives on Animal Behavior - Hardcover

Goodenough, Judith; McGuire, Betty; Wallace, Robert A.

 
9780471295020: Perspectives on Animal Behavior

Synopsis

This book incorporates ecological and environmental principles while introducing readers to the scientific reasoning and methodology of animal behavior. The authors include classical studies but also incorporate current work to give readers an accessible overview of animal behavior.

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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.

 

Synopsis

The author includes the base of a solid first edition with supportive reviews and contemporary research findings. There are both contemporary research findings and historical experimental evidence. One of the topics is on animal awareness and there is requisite background material on genetics and other basic molecular topics.

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