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Tabbed Board Books: My First Baby Animals
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99My First Baby Animals: Let's find our favorites! A perfect first look at baby animals for parents and toddlers to share with delightful spreads on kittens and puppies, rabbits and guinea pigs, wild cat cubs, baby birds, baby farm animals, more wild cubs, baby snowy animals, baby safari animals, baby jungle animals, baby Australian animals, baby... more...
Structural Colors in the Realm of Nature
World Scientific Publishing Company 2008; US$ 189.00Structural colorations originate from self-organized microstructures, which interact with light in a complex way to produce brilliant colors seen everywhere in nature. Research in this field is extremely new and has been rapidly growing in the last 10 years, because the elaborate structures created in nature can now be fabricated through various types... more...
The Story of Colchester Zoo
The History Press 2013; US$ 21.86Colchester Zoo is one of the finest zoos in Britain. Yet, unlike almost every other major zoo in the country, its story has never been told. Now, the forgotten figures of Frank and Helena Farrar are brought to life in this highly readable book which shows how they founded Colchester Zoo in the 1960s. The story is told of how their domestic life with... more...
The Biology of Traditions
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 72.00Biology of Traditions investigates socially-maintained behavioral traditions in nonhuman animals from primates and dolphins to birds. Exploring new theoretical models of traditions, it will make this area accessible to researchers and students in the fields of biology, anthropology and psychology. more...
Sampling and Statistical Methods for Behavioral Ecologists
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 46.00Behavioral ecology research raises special statistical problems that are generally not covered in introductory statistics courses. This book bridges the gap, exploring the techniques that have the greatest relevance to field biologists, pinpointing common statistical pitfalls and how to avoid them. more...
Animal Traditions
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 72.00Animal Traditions offers an alternative to both the 'selfish gene' and 'meme' views of the world for all evolutionary biologists. By showing how cultural traditions, imparting information from one generation to the next, are vital to birds and mammals, it offers a unified evolutionary and developmental perspective of animal behaviour. more...
Essential Animal Behavior
Wiley 2009; US$ 84.95Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction to all areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiological control of behavior to the learning, development, and function of behavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is also covered throughout the text. Written in a concise and engaging style, this new book: includes... more...
Migration
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 119.99Migration is one of the most fascinating and dramatic of all animal behaviors. Historically, however, the study of migration has been fragmented, with ornithologists, entomologists, and marine biologists paying little attention to work outside their own fields. This treatment of the subject shows how comparisons across taxa can in fact illuminate migratory... more...
Evolution of Animal Behavior
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 149.99This volume highlights current research in the field of animal behavior, with an emphasis on evolutionary perspectives. The contributors represent paleontological, field, and experimental approaches. They focus on a series of studies that confront wide-ranging issues, including sexual selection, mate choice, differential parental investment, apparent... more...
Minding Animals
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 29.99Concerned not only with the study of animal behaviour, but also with the innumerable ways in which humans interact with and intrude into the lives of our animal kin. This is a comparative, evolutionary, and ecological work that does not centre on nonhuman primates of one specific group of animals. more...









