Foundations of Animal Behavior

by Houck, Lynne D.; Drickamer, Lee C.; Animal Behavior Society

• ISBN13: 9780226354576
• ISBN10: 0226354571
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s,Foundations of Animal Behaviorselects the most important works from the discipline's first hundred yearsforty-four classic papersand presents them in facsimile, tracing the development of the field. These papers are classics because they either founded a line of investigation, established a basic method, or provided a new approach to an important research question.The papers are divided into six sections, each introduced by prominent researchers. Sections one and two cover the origins and history of the field and the emergence of basic methods and approaches. They provide a background for sections three through six, which focus on development and learning; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; sensory processes, orientation, and communication; and the evolution of behavior.This outstanding collection will serve as the basis for undergraduate and graduate seminars and as a reference for researchers in animal behavior, whether they focus on ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, or anthropology.Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Historical Origins: The Making of a Science

Instinct Charles Darwin

Introduction

Introduction

What is behaviorism?

The Emerging Science: Defining the Goals, Approaches, and Methods

A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior

On aims and methods of ethology

Ethological units of behavior

Describing sequences of behavior

Observational study of behavior: sampling methods

A quantitative comparison of the behaviour of a wild and caged baboon group

Comparative methods and the concept of homology in the study of behaviour

Scala naturae: Why there is no theory in comparative psychology

Development and Learning: Genetic Influences, Learning, and Instinct

Appetites and aversions as constituents of instincts

Culturally transmitted patterns of vocal behavior in sparrows

Prenatal behavior of birds

A gene mutation which changes a behavior pattern

Genetic control of the neuronal network generating cricket song patterns

Experimental studies of mimicry in some North American Butterflies

The monarch, Danaus plexippus, and viceroy, Limenitis archippus, archippus

Relation of cue to consequence in avoidance learning

Affectional responses in the infant monkey

Neural and Hormonal Mechanisms of Behavior: Physiological Causes and Consequences

The hierarchical organization of nervous mechanisms underlying instinctive behaviour

Relations between the central nervous system and the peripheral organs

Exogenous and endogenous components in circadian rhythms Jurgen Aschoff

Menstrual synchrony and suppression

Interaction between internal and external environments in the regulation of the reproductive cycle of the ring dove

Effects of different concentrations of androgen upon sexual behavior in castrated male rats

Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig

Hunger in the blowfly Vincent

Energy models of motivation

Sensory Processes, Orientation, and Communication: Biology of the Umwelt

The "language" and orientation of the honey bee

The sensory basis of obstacle avoidance by flying bats

The detection and evasion of bats by moths

Guideposts of migrating fishes

Chemical communication among animals

Bird migration: influence of physiological state upon celestial orientation

The logical analysis of animal communication

Evolution of Behavior: Approaches to Studying Behavioral Change

Comparative studies of the motor patterns of Anatinae (1941), translated

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