Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)

As a follow up to Volume 7, contributors continue to explore the latest developments in developmental psychology. Here, researchers focus on the integration of theory and research and evaluates theoretical progress and advanced research. Continuing with the successful format of previous volumes in Annals of Theoretical Psychology, Volume 10 presents four major contributions--each accompanied by commentaries and replies to commentaries.

Insect Behavior is the second edition of the text that for thirty years served as the fundamental introduction to a field of study that has been growing enormously. Today, new technologies and understandings are allowing questions to be shaped and answered in ways that once could not have been envisioned. However, massive new information also can overwhelm and obscure the broader perspectives needed to put new discoveries into context. Thus, the times fairly demand that students and non-specialists seek a wider understanding of diverse proximate and ultimate forces that cause...

Wie Wolfgang Wickler in seinem kurzen, kompakten und seit seinem erstmaligem Erscheinen im Jahr 1967 immer noch aktuellen Werk zeigt, strebt die vergleichende Verhaltensforschung danach, charakteristische Verhaltensmerkmale und Fahigkeiten von Tieren und Menschen zu beschreiben und zu dokumentieren. Auch heutige Forschung mochte verstehen, warum und wie diese entstanden sind. Einen nach wie vor wichtigen Forschungsschwerpunkt bildet deshalb die Frage nach der evolutionaren Herkunft von Formen, Mechanismen und Funktionen der verschiedenen Verhaltensweisen.

Erlautert werden die...

This is the true story of Bear and Whiskers, two dogs who came to our sanctuary. For 10 years they lived a life like no other, roaming free and living off what they caught in the hundred acres of woods surrounding us. And they ruled the streets of the neighborhood, daring any dog—or human—to intrude upon their territory.   

People complained. Some people even thought the dogs should be put to sleep. What these people didn't realize is that we were the ones encroaching on Bear's territory. This was his street and his neighborhood. And he had recruited...