Animal Behaviour
An Evolutionary Perspective
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Beschreibung
This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.
This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.
Offers a comprehensive introduction to behavioral biology Explains fundamental principles and illustrates them with specific examples Sets all aspects of animal behavior into a coherent framework
Autor*in
Peter M. Kappeler
Themen in »Animal Behaviour«
Animal behaviour Ethology Life histories Predation Social systems Sociobiology Parental care Sexual selection Habitat use Orientation & navigation Social structure