Ethology is the study of the mechanisms and evolution of behavior. Now more than ever before ethology poses some of the most exciting intellectual challenges in modern biology while it offers the most powerful conceptual tools for answering them.
The goal of this book is to illustrate the power of ethology's broad and integrative approach in unraveling how behavior, both simple and complex, is organized and orchestrated. The book develops this theme by looking first at traditional ethology to establish familiarity with the models which will then be used to examine neural mechanisms, social behavior and species interactions, and finally our own species.
Suggested readings at the end of each chapter serve to broaden the book's base with examples of first-rate research treated in far more detail than would be possible in text. Where such concise, semitechnical supplements are not available, short essays devoted to particular experiments or approaches a company the text.
Study questions at the end of each chapter are designed to stimulate creative thinking about the chapter's subject, and rarely have an obvious or even uniquely correct answer.
Students wishing to delve deeper into the literature surrounding a particular subject may make use of the chapter-by-chapter selected bibliography at the end.

Ethology: The Mechanisms and Evolution of Behavior

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gould, James L.

Psychology & Counseling

W.W.Norton&Company

An introductory biology text for undergraduate students, this book has now been updated for its fifth edition. It takes an integrated approach and, for each revision, new developments in biology are incorporated into the fabric of the text. Major parts of the text have now been reorganized and a wide range of ancillaries plus current research and information are included.

Study Guide to KeetonGould Biological Science, 5th Ed

Science & Math

Keeton, William T.

McFadden, Carol Hardy

Biological Sciences

Biological Science

Gould, Carol Grant

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

An introductory biology text for undergraduate students, this book has now been updated for its fifth edition. It takes an integrated approach and, for each revision, new developments in biology are incorporated into the fabric of the text. Major parts of the text have now been reorganized and a wide range of ancillaries plus current research and information are included.

Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great deal about how the animals draw from these neural strategies: The structures animals build provide a superb window on the workings of the animal mind. Animal Architects examines animal architecture across a range of species, from those whose blueprints are largely innate (such as spiders and their webs) to those whose challenging structures seem to require intellectual insight, planning, and even aesthetics (such as bowerbirds' nests, or beavers' dams). Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, James and Carol Gould move on to conditioning; the cognitive map” and how it evolved; and the role of planning and insight. Finally, they reflect on what animal building tells us about the nature of human intelligence-showing why humans, unlike many animals, need to build castles in the air.

Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Basic Books

Animal Architects masterfully investigates how the structure an animal builds reveals the inner workings of its mind. Beginning with instinct and the simple homes of solitary insects, and progressing to conditioning, the cognitive map,” and the role of planning and insight, James and Carol Gould use the amazing engineering feats throughout the animal world to reach fascinating conclusions about animals' behavioral capabilities.From two of the world's most distinguished experts in animal behavior, Animal Architects is a creative and accessible approach to understanding animal minds through the structures they build.

We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable methods by which animals find their way both near home and around the globe. Noted biologist James Gould and popular science writer Carol Gould delve into the elegant strategies and fail-safe backup systems, the invisible sensitivities and mysterious forces, and incredible mental abilities used by familiar and rare species, as they investigate a multitude of navigation strategies, from the simple to the astonishing.
 The Goulds discuss how animals navigate, without instruments and training, at a level far beyond human talents. They explain how animals measure time and show how the fragile monarch butterfly employs an internal clock, calendar, compass, and map to commence and measure the two-thousand-mile annual journey to Mexico--all with a brain that weighs only a few thousandths of an ounce. They look at honey bees and how they rely on the sun and mental maps to locate landmarks such as nests and flowers. And they examine whether long-distance migrants, such as the homing pigeon, depend on a global positioning system to let them know where they are. Ultimately, the authors ask if the disruption of migratory paths through habitat destruction and global warming is affecting and endangering animal species.
 Providing a comprehensive picture of animal navigation and migration, Nature's Compass decodes the mysteries of this extraordinary aspect of natural behavior.

Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation (Science Essentials)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Princeton University Press

Articles show how life survives in an inhospitable condition

Life at the Edge: Readings from Scientific American Magazine

W.H.Freeman & Co.

BioStats Basics provides introductory-level biology students with a practical and accessible introduction to statistical research. Engaging and informal, the book avoids excessive theoretical and mathematical detail to focus on how core statistical methods are put to work in biology. Students learn the essentials in probability that enable skillful experiment design and the correct use of statistical tests. Everyday examples, are drawn from ecology, animal physiology, animal behavior, medicine, and other areas of biology, are used the clarify methods. The accompanying Web site, www.whfreeman.com/gould is closely integrated with the text, providing crucial tutorials (explanations of tests alongside simulations) plus data analysis tools for completing the text’s exercises.

BioStats Basics: A Student Handbook

Gould, Grant F.

W.H.Freeman

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Ethology: The Mechanisms and Evolution of Behavior

Study Guide to KeetonGould Biological Science, 5th Ed

Biological Science

Biological Science

Biological Science

Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence

Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence

Nature's Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation (Science Essentials)

Life at the Edge: Readings from Scientific American Magazine

BioStats Basics: A Student Handbook