Animal behavior / Dustin R. Rubenstein, Columbia University, John Alcock, Arizona State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Dustin R., author.

Alcock, John, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior--Evolution.

Animal behavior.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xxi, 548 pages, 94 variously numbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Eleventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Sunderland, MA : Sinauer Associates, [2019]

Summary:

A comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments.

Contents:

1. An introduction to animal behavior

2. The integrative study of behavior

3. The developmental and genetic bases of behavior

4. The neural basis of behavior

5. The physiological basis of behavior

6. Avoiding predators and finding food

7. Territoriality and migration

8. Principles of communication

9. Reproductive behavior

10. Mating systems

11. Parental care

12. Principles of social evolution

13. Social behavior and sociality

14. Human behavior.

Notes:

Revised edition of: Animal behavior : an evolutionary approach / John Alcock. 10th ed. c2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781605355481

1605355488

OCLC:

1022077347

Publisher Number:

15221762