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

By Ken Yasukawa

Book information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2014
ISBN
0313398704, 9780313398704
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14686256 bytes)
Volume
3 vols.
Pages
1235\1251
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-07-13 20:34:07
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Description

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

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