Animal Behavior [3 volumes]: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do [3 volumes]

By: Alison M. Bell and Andrew P. King and Anna Dornhaus and Anne Danielson-François and Anthony C. Little and Benedict C. Jones and Bennett G. Galef and Brett M. Gibson and Brian Keane and Bronwyn H. Bleakley and Çağlar Akçay and Carolynn L. Smith and Catherine A. Marler and Charles T. Snowdon and Christopher D. Watkins and Christopher Harshaw and Christopher S. Evans and David B. Mcdonald and David Clark and David Crews and David F. Sherry and David J. White and Douglas W. Mock and Geoffrey E. Hill and George Uetz and Guillermo Paz-Y-Miño-c and James L. Gould and Janis L. Dickinson and Jason Low and Jeffrey R. Alberts and Ken Yasukawa and Kenyon B. Mobley and Laura Smale and Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lee C. Drickamer and Lisa M. Debruine and Mark E. Hauber and Matthew J. Fuxjager and Megan Hastings Hagenauer and Meredith J. West and Michael D. Beecher and Michael J. Ryan and Michelle Pellissier Scott and Nancy G. Solomon and Rachel A. Page and Renée A. Duckworth and S. Craig Roberts and Sarah Jane Alger and Sean P. Bradley and Terry J. Ord and Theodore Stankowich and Walter D. Koenig and Ximena E. Bernal and Zenobia Lewis and Zuleyma Tang-Martínez

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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.The three volumes of Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do cover the breadth of the field, addressing causation, development, function, and evolution in a wide range of animals, from invertebrates to humans. Inspired by Nobel laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen's work, the first two volumes follow Tinbergen's four classic questions of animal behavior, while the third volume supplies integrated examples of Tinbergen's investigative process applied in specific cases.Written in an engaging, accessible manner ideal for college students as well as general audiences, this evidence-based collection provides a fascinating tour of animal behaviorists' findings, such as how animal communication can be truthful or deceitful, the deadly serious business behind clashes in the "battle of the sexes," and how documentation of animal behavior can lead to a deeper understanding of human behavior. Each chapter provides both historical background and information about current developments in animal behavior knowledge.