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Books in the series cover a wide range of topics, including zoo- and aquarium-based field conservation, animal management science, public education, philosophy, and ethics.
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Focuses on the clandestine nature of marine fish migration. The author explains how the four decades of research have employed digital-age technologies - including... Læs mere
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From trunk to tail, these thirty-three essential historical, scientific, and cultural writings on the elephant range from folktales to current practices, creating a greater understanding of this creature.
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Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. Without central coordination, army ants march in... Læs mere
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The issue of animal culture is hotly debated. Laland and Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from... Læs mere
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In creatures as different as crickets and scorpions, mole rats and elephants, there exists an overlooked channel of communication: signals transmitted as vibrations... Læs mere
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Prominent neuroscientists, psychologists, ethologists, and primatologists from around the world take a bottom-up approach to primate social behavior by... Læs mere
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Using dynamic systems theory, employed to study human communication, King demonstrates the complexity of apes’ social communication, and the... Læs mere
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In this book, W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Smith's approach is deeply rooted in the... Læs mere
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Drawing on extensive observations of wild chimpanzees’ behavior and social dynamics, Craig Stanford portrays a complex and more... Læs mere
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This book explores the similar ways in which information is encoded in nonverbal man-made signals (e.g., traffic lights, tornado sirens) and... Læs mere
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Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. Rüdiger Wehner has devised elegant... Læs mere