&#8203;This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples. Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.

Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kappeler, Peter M.

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

This up-to-date review examines key areas of animal behaviour, including communication, cognition, conflict, cooperation, sexual selection and behavioural variation. Various tests are covered, including recent empirical examples.

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Science & Math

Sachser, Norbert

Anthes, Nils

Bergmüller, Ralph

Blanckenhorn, Wolf

Brockmann, H. Jane

Fichtel, Claudia

Fromhage, Lutz

Frommen, Joachim

Goymann, Wolfgang

Heinze, Juergen

Hirschenhauser, Katharina

Hofer, Heribert

Kaiser, Sylvia

Kempenaers, Bart

Kerth, Gerald

Korb, Judith Ingrid

Kotrschal, Kurt M.

Kraus, Cornelila

Manser, Martha

Michiels, Nico

Moritz, Robin F. A.

Pahl, Mario

Penn, Dustin

Schaefer, Martin

Van Schaik, Carel P.

Schneider, Jutta M.

Schreiber, Isabella

Taborsky, Michael

Tautz, Jürgen

Trillmich, Fritz

Zhang, Shaowu

Biological Sciences

The study of animal behaviour has become one of the fastest growing b- logical disciplines in recent decades. This development can be easily - ferred, for example, from the steady increase in the total number of pub- cations on any aspect of animal behaviour, in particular also in journals with a more general readership (e. g. Nature, Proceedings of the Royal - ciety or Current Biology), the ever-increasing number of participants at - ternational conferences (e. g. IEC or ISBE), and from the growing numbers of students choosing courses in this field. This development has several causes, of which I find three particularly compelling. First, it is incre- ingly being appreciated that behaviour is the crucial level at which an in- vidual s genotype and phenotype interface with the environment. Rec- nising behaviour as the main mechanism animals employ to ascertain their homeostasis, growth, survival and reproduction therefore provides a deep understanding of organismal integration and adaptation. Second, the ast- ishing success of the study of animal behaviour also has importantly to do with the intellectual flexibility and methodological inter-disciplinarity - quired for comprehensive analyses of behaviour. Today, students of beh- iour are jacks-of-all-trades; importing, applying and improving methods from many neighbouring disciplines, such as molecular genetics, physi- ogy or micro-electronics, as well as concepts and theories from less ob- ous sources, such as economics or sociology, for example."

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