The Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory

by Vinciane Despret

A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory

How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon them? The biologist Amotz Zahavi stakes the controversial claim that Arabian babblers are said to raise themselves up each day to dance and tend to one another in the early morning sun. Such a claim will provoke the interest and intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517911524
• ISBN13: 9781517911522
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 4.7"