Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction toall areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiologicalcontrol of behavior to the learn

Readable introduction to animal behaviour for beginning students in biology and psychology.

Abnormal behaviour patterns, from the jumping and somersaulting of caged laboratory mice to the pacing of enclosed 'big cats', are displayed by many millions of

All students and researchers of behaviour – from those observing freely-behaving animals in the field to those conducting more controlled laboratory studies �

This book introduces the reader to the power of observation before, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It sta