Textbook
Perspectives on Animal Behavior, 3rd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-04517-6
Hardcover
544 pages
September 2009, ©2010
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- Enhanced coverage of applied animal behavior and animal welfare
- New focus on the relevance of animal behavior to conservation biology
- Addition of examples from human behavior have been added to help student understanding of certain concepts.
- New focus on experimental methods and experimental design has been given throughout the text.
- New focus on hypothesis testing also has been included throughout the book.
- New section on Recent Trends in Animal Behavior includes
discussions of:
- Field studies that test hypotheses
- Cellular and molecular advances in the study of behavior, including neurobiology and genomics
- Behavioral biology as an integrated study of behavior at the level of the whole organism
- Applied animal behavior
- A major new discussion on the neural basis of learning, including a section on neurogenesis.