Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do

✍ Scribed by Ken Yasukawa

Publisher: Praeger
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 1251
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Discover why animals do what they do, based on their genes, physiologies, cultures, traditions, survival and mating advantages, and evolutionary histories―and find out how studying behavior in the animal world helps us understand human behavior.

• Provides readers with personal narratives from the researchers themselves, enabling rare insights into how researchers think and what drives their studies

• Explains animal behavior on the animal's terms rather than anthropomorphizing its actions as is often done in the popular press and the media

• Includes a comprehensive glossary of behavioral terms

✦ Subjects

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