Perspectives in Ethology: Volume 7 Alternatives

by P.P.G. Bateson and Peter H. Klopfer

Book Overview

This volume is subtitled "Alternatives" because we wanted to devote at least a part of it to the alternative ways in which members of the same species behave in a given situation. Not so very long ago the supposition among many ethologists was that if one animal behaved in a particular way, then all other members of the same age and sex would do the same. Any differences in the ethogram between individuals were to be attributed to "normal biological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461290155
• ISBN13: 9781461290155
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"