Animal Behavior
- 4th Edition - January 1, 2028
- Latest edition
- Authors: Michael D. Breed, Madison Sankovitz, Janice Moore
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 7 0 8 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 7 0 9 - 9
Animal Behavior 4th Edition builds upon the strengths of its predecessors while integrating significant updates that reflect the rapid advancements in behavioral science. This… Read more
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Animal Behavior 4th Edition builds upon the strengths of its predecessors while integrating significant updates that reflect the rapid advancements in behavioral science. This edition maintains the book’s comprehensive scope, covering foundational principles as well as emerging research in neurobiology, endocrinology, behavioral genetics, and cognition. Designed for undergraduate students in biology and psychology, this edition offers a rigorous yet accessible exploration of animal behavior, emphasizing both mechanistic (proximate) and evolutionary (ultimate) explanations. By incorporating new case studies and contemporary research findings, the book continues to engage students in the dynamic study of how animals interact with their environments, conspecifics, and other species. As with previous editions, illustrations and photographs have been updated for clarity and engagement, and all chapters have been revised to reflect the latest empirical studies. By balancing historical context with contemporary breakthroughs, this edition equips students with the theoretical foundations, methodological insights, and applied knowledge necessary to navigate the evolving field of animal behavior.
• Features an expanded treatment of neurobiology and endocrinology, including the latest research on neuromodulation and hormone-behavior interactions
• Includes a major revision of behavioral genetics, incorporating advances in genomics, epigenetics, and the genetic basis of cognitive flexibility
• Provides an enhanced discussion of cognition, addressing new findings on problem-solving, social intelligence, metacognition, and decision-making
• Includes helpful aids such as learning objectives, explanation of key terms, case studies, special interest boxes, discussion points, chapter summaries, chapter
• questions, and further reading
• Supplies ancillary materials to support instructor adoptions, including PowerPoint slides and multiple-choice question banks
• Includes a major revision of behavioral genetics, incorporating advances in genomics, epigenetics, and the genetic basis of cognitive flexibility
• Provides an enhanced discussion of cognition, addressing new findings on problem-solving, social intelligence, metacognition, and decision-making
• Includes helpful aids such as learning objectives, explanation of key terms, case studies, special interest boxes, discussion points, chapter summaries, chapter
• questions, and further reading
• Supplies ancillary materials to support instructor adoptions, including PowerPoint slides and multiple-choice question banks
This book is written for undergraduate students in animal behavior courses, who will purchase this book if it is adopted by their professor. Animal behavior courses are most taught in Biology and Psychology departments.
1. Of Cockroaches and Wolves: Framing Animal Behavior
2. Neurobiology and Endocrinology for Animal Behaviorists
3. Behavioral Genetics
4. Homeostasis and Time Budgets
5. Learning
6. Cognition
7. Communication
8. Movement: Search, Navigation, Migration, and Dispersal
9. Foraging
10. Self-Defense
11. Mating Systems
12. Nesting, Parenting, and Territoriality
13. Social Behavior, Cooperation, and Kinship
14. Comparative Social Behavior
15. Conservation and Behavior
2. Neurobiology and Endocrinology for Animal Behaviorists
3. Behavioral Genetics
4. Homeostasis and Time Budgets
5. Learning
6. Cognition
7. Communication
8. Movement: Search, Navigation, Migration, and Dispersal
9. Foraging
10. Self-Defense
11. Mating Systems
12. Nesting, Parenting, and Territoriality
13. Social Behavior, Cooperation, and Kinship
14. Comparative Social Behavior
15. Conservation and Behavior
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: January 1, 2028
- Language: English
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Michael D. Breed
After receiving his PhD from the University of Kansas in 1977, Dr. Breed began work as a faculty member at the University of Colorado, Boulder and taught as a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology until his retirement in 2019. He taught courses in general biology, animal behavior, insect biology, and tropical biology. His research program focused on the behavior and ecology of social insects, and he worked on ants, bees, and wasps. He studied many aspects of social behavior, including nestmate recognition, division of labor, the genetics of colony defense, the behavior of defensive bees, and communication during colony defense. Dr. Breed was the Executive Editor of the scientific journals Animal Behaviour from 2006-2009 and Insectes Sociaux from 2014-2018.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USAMS
Madison Sankovitz
After receiving her PhD from the University of California Riverside in 2022, Dr. Sankovitz began work as a postdoc at the University of Colorado Boulder in the BioFrontiers Institute. Her research focuses on the behavior, ecology, and genomics of social insects, and she works on ants, bees, and wasps. Most recently, she spends her time traveling across Asia studying parasites and predators of honey bees.
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Janice Moore
As an undergraduate, I was inspired by parasitologist Clark P. Read to think about the ecology and evolution of parasites in new ways. I was especially excited to learn that parasites affected animal behavior, another favorite subject area. Most biologists outside the world of parasitology were not interested in parasites; they were relegated to a nether world someplace between the biology of free-living organisms and medicine. After peregrination through more than one graduate program, I completed my PhD studying parasites and behavior at the University of New Mexico. I did postdoctoral work on parasite community ecology with Dan Simberloff at Florida State University, and then accepted a faculty position at Colorado State University, where I have remained since 1983. I am currently a Professor in the Department of Biology where I teach courses in invertebrate zoology, animal behavior, and history of medicine. I study a variety of aspects of parasite ecology and host behavior ranging from behavioral fever and transmission behavior to the ecology of introduced parasite species.
Affiliations and expertise
Biology Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA