Can I read Understanding Animal Behaviour on EtoBox?

Understanding Animal Behaviour by Putman, Rory.; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Understanding Animal Behaviour about?

Title Page 4 Contents 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 12 1 Understanding animal behaviour 14 2 Behavioural reflexes 19 3 Linking responses and the co-ordinationof more complex behaviours 27 4 Receiving stimuli and analysingthe incoming information 34 5 Motivation and its capacity tomodify simple response patterns 47 6 ‘Unpredictable’ behaviours: redirectedand displacement activities 57 7 Learning and its effects on behaviour 64 8 Behaviour genetics and theevolution of behaviour 70 9 Adaptiveness of behaviour: optimising the returns 86 10 Social organisation and social behaviour 97 11 Reproductive behaviour andreproductive strategies 117 12 Mating behaviour and mate choice 125 13 Co–operative breeding andarguments about altruism 140 14 Territoriality and aggression 149 15 How animals navigate 161 16 ‘If we could talk to the animals...’ 168 Index of keywords 188 Index of species mentioned in the text 190

Author

Putman, Rory.;

Language

EN