Readings in animal behavior / edited by Thomas E. McGill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGill, Thomas E., editor.

Contributor:

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Animal psychology.

Bahavior, Animal.

Psychology, Comparative.

Medical Subjects:

Bahavior, Animal.

Psychology, Comparative.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

x, 592 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. 1965.

Contents:

The snark was a boojum / Frank A. Beach

Ethology: an approach toward the complete analysis of behavior / Eckhard H. Hess

Ethology as a new branch of biology / W.H. Thorpe

The descent of instinct / Frank A. Beach

The comparative study of species-specific behavior / R.A. Hinde and N. Tinbergen

The inheritance of behavior / Gerald E. McClearn

Behavior genetics and individuality understood / Jerry Hirsch

Inheritance of audiogenic seizure susceptibility in the mouse / John L. Fuller, Clarice Easler and Mary E. Smith

Cerebral factors in alcohol preference of laboratory mice / Gerald E. McClearn, and David A. Rodgers

Inheritance of behavioral and physiological characteristics of mice and the problem of heterosis / Jan H. Bruell

Genotype and sex drive in intact and in castrated male mice / Thomas E. McGill and G. Richard Tucker

Neuroethology and the motivation of agonistic behavior / Jerram L. Brown and Robert W. Hunsperger

General heterostimulation in a monkey colony / José M.R. Delgado

Hunger in the blowfly / V.G. Dethier and Dietrich Bodenstein

Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig / Charles H. Phoenix [and others]

Hormones and reproductive behavior: some phylogenetic considerations / Lester A. Aronson

The presence of the mate and of nesting material as stimuli for the development of incubation behavior and for gonadotropin secretion in the ring dove (streptopelia risoria) / Daniel S. Lehrman, Philip N. Bordy, and Rochelle P. Wortis

Relations between brain chemistry and problem-solving among rats raised in enriched and impoverished environments / David Krech, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and Edward L. Bennett

Fear and pain: their effect on self-injection of amobarbital sodium by rats / John D. Davis and Neal E. Miller

Genetic and ontogenetic determinants of adult behavior in the rat / Seymour Levine and P.L. Broadhurst

Influence of prenatal maternal anxiety on emotionality in young rats / William R. Thompson

Parameters relevant to determining the effect of early experience upon the adult behavior of animals / John A. King

Behavior organization and genesis of the social bond in insects and mammals / T.C. Schneirla and Jay S. Rosenblatt

Critical periods in behavioral development / J.P. Scott

Letters: (1) "critical periods" in the development of behavior / T.C. Schneirla and Jay S. Rosenblatt

(2) reply to Schneirla and Rosenblatt / J.P. Scott

An attempt to isolate critical periods of development in the rat / Victor H. Denenberg

The effects of social restriction on the behavior of rhesus monkeys: 1. free social behavior / William A. Mason

The heterosexual affectional system in monkeys / Harry F. Harlow

The effect of early social experience on male sexual behavior of androgen injected turkeys / M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale

The influence of patterned-light deprivation on the critical period for imprinting / Howard Moltz and L. Jay Stettner

What the octopus makes of it: our world from another point of view / M.J. Wells

The "language" and orientation of the honey bee / K. von Frisch and M. Lindauer

Electric location by fishes / H.W. Lissmann

Migration and speciation in newts / Victor C. Twitty

The orientation of pigeons as affected by the learning of landmarks and by the distance of displacement / G.V.T. Matthews

Echo ranging in the porpoise / W.N. Kellogg

The echolocation of flying insects by bats / Donald R. Griffin, Frederic A. Webster and Charles R. Michael

The detection and evasion of bats by moths / Kenneth D. Roeder and Asher E. Treat

Oddity learning set in a cat / J.M. Warren

Reversal learning by horse and raccoon / J.M. Warren and Helen B. Warren

Some observations on an operant in the octopus / P.B. Dews

Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians / James V. McConnell

Investigations into mimicry / Lincoln P. Brower and Jane Van Zandt Brower

The misbehavior of organisms / Keller Breland and Marian Breland

Visual reinforcement in fighting cocks / Travis I. Thompson

Visual attention in the Rhesus monkey / Robert A. Butler and Jerome H. Woolpy

Energy models of motivation / R.A. Hinde

Toward a comparative psychology of learning / M.E. Bitterman

The analysis of social organization in animals / J.P. Scott

Intra- and interspecific conflict of Mus and Peromyscus / John A. King

Excerpts from: the comparative ethology of the African parrot genus agapornis / William C. Digler

Changes in nest-material carrying behavior of F1 hybrids between agapornis roseicollis and a. personata fischeri during three years (abstract) / William C. Dilger

The shell menace / Niko Tinbergen

Mother-infant relations in free-ranging baboons / Irven DeVore

The development of schooling behavior in fishes / Evelyn Shaw.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc."--title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket. Also has a sheet of typewritten paper laid in; and considerable underlining.

OCLC:

557869