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A highly readable and accessible introduction to current knowledge about the way animals behave
Part 1: Mechanisms of animal behaviour - Understanding animal behaviour. Reflex behaviours. Linking responses and the coordination of more complex behaviours. Receiving stimuli and analysing the incoming information. Motivation and its capacity to modify simple response patterns. Learning and its effects in modifying behaviour. 'Unpredictable' behaviours: redirected behaviour and displacement activities. Behaviour genetics and the evolution of behaviour.Part 2: The adaptation of behaviour - Adaptiveness of behaviour; optimising the returns. Living in groups and the advantages of sociality. Reproductive behaviour and reproductive strategies. Courtship displays and mate choice. Cooperative breeding and arguments about altruism . Territoriality and aggression. Animal navigation. 'If we could talk to the animals...'
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