Ethology

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,...

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 *...

Animal curation is a vital and evolving discipline that integrates science, policy, and hands-on care to ensure the highest standards of animal welfare. As the role of zoos, aquaria, sanctuaries, and research facilities expands beyond exhibition to...

Animal curation is a vital and evolving discipline that integrates science, policy, and hands-on care to ensure the highest standards of animal welfare. As the role of zoos, aquaria, sanctuaries, and research facilities expands beyond exhibition to...

Proceedings of the 47th congress of the International Society for Applied EthologyBook InformationISBN 9789086862252Author Maria José HötzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wageningen Academic PublishersPublisher Wageningen Academic Publishers

‘This emotionally charged page-turner is a masterpiece.’ Pilley Bianchi, author of For the Love of Dog Are animals trying to talk to us? And can we learn to listen?   It started with a hummingbird dive-bombing Amelia Thomas over her morning coffee, and...

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

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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

If the reader will excuse a brief anecdote from my own intellectual history, I would like to use it as an introduction to this book. In 1957, I was a sophomore at an undergraduate liberal arts college major ing in medieval history. This was the year that...

The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author's unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms...

In the eight years since the publication of the second edition of this Guide, psycho phannacotherapy has made many advances not only through the discovery of new medications but by the effective directing of their use to an ever-increasing variety of...

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The past decade has brought extraordinary gains in the outlook for children stricken with cancer. Though cancer remains a leading cause of death for children and young adults, more victims of child hood cancer today will survive than will die. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491343Author Peter KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Critical EditionsPublisher Critical EditionsWeight(grams) 395g