Animal Behavior: Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution
- ISBN-10
- 0697074714
- ISBN-13
- 9780697074713
- Series
- Animal Behavior
- Pages
- 479
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Wm. C. Brown Publishers
- Authors
- Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey
Description
Designed for a one-semester introductory course in Animal Behavior. Animal behavior is a broad discipline with investigators and contributions from diverse perspectives, including anthropology, comparative psychology, ecology, ethology, physiology, and zoology. The authors goal in this textbook is to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme to provide students exposure to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior. They also demonstrate that the varied perspectives used to study behavior are complementary and often integrated; they are not mutually exclusive. The subtitle, " Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution, " reflects the broad themes that dominate the book.
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