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Perspectives on Animal Behavior, 3rd Edition

ISBN: 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.

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