The Behavior of Animals Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution

by Bolhuis, Johan J.; Giraldeau, Luc-Alain; Hogan, Jerry A.

• ISBN13: 9781119109501
• ISBN10: 1119109507
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-12-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Behavior of Animals

An updated view of animal behavior studies, featuring global experts

The Behavior of Animals, Second Edition provides a broad overview of the current state of animal behavior studies with contributions from international experts. This edition includes new chapters on hormones and behavior, individuality, and human evolution. All chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated, and are supported by color illustrations, informative callouts, and accessible presentation of technical information.

• Provides an introduction to the study of animal behavior
• Looks at an extensive scope of topics- from perception, motivation and emotion, biological rhythms, and animal learning to animal cognition, communication, mate choice, and individuality.
• Explores the evolution of animal behavior including a critical evaluation of the assumption that human beings can be studied as if they were any other animal species.
• Students will benefit from an updated textbook in which a variety of contributors provide their expertise and global perspective in specialized areas

Author Biography

Johan J. Bolhuis is Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at Utrecht University, and Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. 

Luc-Alain Giraldeau is behavioral ecologist currently head of the Instiitut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Quebec. 

Jerry A. Hogan is emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents 

Foreword by Robert A. Hinde 
Preface 

1. The Study of Animal Behavior 
Johan J. Bolhuis, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, and Jerry A. Hogan 

2. Stimulus Perception 
Jorg-Peter Ewert 

3. Motivation and Emotion 
Jerry A. Hogan 

4. Biological Rhythms and Behavior 
Ralph E. Mistlberger and Benjamin Rusak 

5. Brain and Behavior 
David F. Sherry 

6. Hormones and Behavior 
Jacques Balthazart and Gregory F. Ball 

7. Development of Behavior 
Johan J. Bolhuis 

8. Learning and Memory 
Kimberly Kirkpatrick and Geoffrey Hall 

9. Animal Cognition
Jerry A. Hogan 

10. Applied Animal Behavior and Animal Welfare 
David Fraser and Daniel M. Weary 

11. The Function of Behavior 
Luc-Alain Giraldeau and Jerry A. Hogan 

12. Mate Choice, Mating Systems, and Sexual Selection 
Anders Pape Moller 

13. Animal Personality, the Study of Individual Behavioral Differences 
Denis Reale and Pierre-Oliver Montiglio 

14. Animal Communication
William A. Searcy and Stephen Nowicki

15. Evolution of Behavior 
Michael J. Ryan 

16. Human Evolution
Ian Tattersall 

17. Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behavior 
Gillian R. Brown, Catharine P. Cross, and Kevin N. Laland 

Author Index 
Subject Index