Ethology

In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories...

'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology. Popular terms-like "intelligence", "planning", "complexity" or "cognitive"- have a habit of sprawling out to include everyone's favourite interpretation, and end up with such vague meanings...

Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others.Behavioral ecologist and world-renowned elephant scientist Caitlin O'Connell dives into the rituals of elephants, apes,...

How did the elephant seal survive being driven to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century? What variables determine the lifetime reproductive success of individual seals? How have elephant seals adapted to tolerate remarkable physiological...

Being a mom is a tough job-but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources and the threat of predators prowling at all times of the day and night. In Wild Moms, Dr. Carin Bondar takes...

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psychological perspective. The authors and researchers come to this project from the study of humans and apply...

The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator.Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a...

For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620991919Author Jenny ShoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Jenny ShonePublisher Jenny ShoneWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Asked to name an insect society, most of us--whether casual or professional students of nature--quickly point to one of the so-called eusocial marvels: the ant colony, the beehive, the termite mound, the wasp nest. Each is awe-inspiring in its division...

This text provides a comprehensive account of carnivore social behaviour. Synthesizing more than a decade of research in the wild, it offers a detailed account of the behaviour and ecology of cheetahs. Compared with other large cats, and other mammals,...

In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605206639Author Peter KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politiciansNature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218428532Author Frania Shelley-GrielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Animalbehaviorist.UsPublisher Animalbehaviorist.UsWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068851308Author Teresa WoolardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Deltaspark Communications Inc.Publisher Deltaspark Communications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132327Author Carin BondarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889420286Author Peter KropotkinFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889420279Author Peter KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 263g

This book presents the work on aphasia coming out of the Institute for Aphasia and Stroke in Norway during its 10 years of existence. Rather than reviewing previously presented work, it was my desire to give a unified analysis and discussion of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627472050Author Lily TanzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Doggie Lama Books LLCPublisher Doggie Lama Books LLCWeight(grams) 463g

This book contains well-researched (literature review/field surveys) and personal experience on the origin and adaptation of Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), the only large carnivore species inhabiting the mangrove forests across the world. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535101727Author Christina WahlFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint In TechPublisher In TechWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793534507Author Karen BalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Cognella, IncPublisher Cognella, Inc

On being asked to write a book on migration and homing in animals, intended as an introductory text to inform and stimulate both students and non-specialists, I saw the following alternatives for an outline: (1) I could discuss known or hypothetical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839626913Author Goran KušecFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

The attachment effect can hinder effective negotiation. Parties are influenced by their subjective expectations formed on account of the exchange of offers, they form reference points, and loss aversion potentially leads to a change of preferences when...

Anxiety is one of those entltles which everyone "knows", but which ultimately resists simple objective description. The essence of the phenomenon is its subjectivity. True it has its well documented associated physiological events: the...

This is the first in a series of volumes concerned with research encompassed by the rather broad term "environment and behavior. " The goal of the series is to begin the process of integration of knowledge on environmental and behavioral topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627342421Author Burton WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 264g

Symposium on Behaviour and Ecology, Saarbrucken, FRG, 1979"Book InformationISBN 9789061032199Author Erik ZimenFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 450g

The papers comprising this second volume of Human Behavior and the Environment represent, as do their predecessors, a cross section of current work in the broad area of problems dealing with interrelation ships between the physical environment and human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955471602Author Jonathan McGowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Hangar 1 PublishingPublisher Hangar 1 PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Predation is an ecological factor of almost universal importance for the biol ogist who aims at an understanding of the habits and structures of animals. Despite its pervasive nature opinions differ as to what predation really is. So far it has been...

Each of the three great schools of developmental psy- chology represented in this vo1ume--psychoana1ytic, cogni- tive-developmental, and Vygotskian--diverges in important ways. But more recent changes in each discipline have led to new possibilities for...

This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences. Using the facet theoretical framework, this book...

Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them. Although psychophysics belongs to sensory neuroscience, and is coupled...

The study of animal behaviour has become one of the fastest growing b- logical disciplines in recent decades. This development can be easily - ferred, for example, from the steady increase in the total number of pub- cations on any aspect of animal...

We are pleased to be able to honor Arthur J. Bronstein with this volume of essays. We are all the more pleased because the volume has consider able intrinsic merit, but neither the reader nor Arthur should have any doubts about our primary purpose in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789535110521Author Breno BarrosFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint In TechPublisher In TechWeight(grams) 349g