Animal Behavior: Mechanisms, Ecology, Evolution - Hardcover

Drickamer, Lee; Vessey, Stephen; Jakob, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070121990 ISBN 13: 9780070121997

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2001

Synopsis

Designed for a one-semester introductory course in Animal Behavior. Animal behavior is a broad discipline with investigators and contributions from diverse perspectives, including anthropology, comparative psychology, ecology, ethology, physiology, and zoology. The authors goal in this textbook is to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme to provide students exposure to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior. They also demonstrate that the varied perspectives used to study behavior are complementary and often integrated; they are not mutually exclusive. The subtitle, “Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution,” reflects the broad themes that dominate the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Lee Drickamer received a PhD in zoology from Michigan State University and is currently teaching at Northern Arizona University. His research interests include population biology, behavioral ecology of rodents, reproductive traits in field mice, comparative mating behavior of stink bugs, and dominance in domestic swine. Lee has been very active in the Animal Behavior Society and the American Society of Zoologists. He also is a member of the American Society of Mammalogists, American Society of Primatologists, British Ecological Society, Ecological Society of America, Illinois Academy of Science, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Society of American Naturalists, and Wilson Ornithological Society. Lee is lead author of Drickamer et al: Animal Behavior, 4e, also published by WCB/McGraw-Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0070121990
• ISBN 13: 9780070121997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 432