Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field
- 2nd Edition - July 19, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo, Susan W. Margulis
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 4 1 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 3 9 - 7
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field, Second Edition provides a comprehensive manual on animal behavior lab activities. This new edition brings together basic res… Read more
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Request a sales quoteExploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field, Second Edition provides a comprehensive manual on animal behavior lab activities. This new edition brings together basic research and methods, presenting applications and problem-solving techniques. It provides all the details to successfully run designed activities while also offering flexibility and ease in setup. The exercises in this volume address animal behavior at all levels, describing behavior, theory, application and communication. Each lab provides details on how to successfully run the activity while also offering flexibility to instructors. This is an important resource for students educators, researchers and practitioners who want to explore and study animal behavior.
The field of animal behavior has changed dramatically in the past 15 - 20 years, including a greater use and availability of technology and statistical analysis. In addition, animal behavior has taken on a more applied role in the last decade, with a greater emphasis on conservation and applied behavior, hence the necessity for new resources on the topic.
- Offers an up-to-date representation of animal behavior
- Examines ethics and approvals for the study of vertebrate animals
- Includes contributions from a large field of expertise in the Animal Behavior Society
- Provides a flexible resource that can be used as a laboratory manual or in a flipped classroom setting
Students and educators in animal science studies, specifically animal behavior laboratory. Researchers and practitioners in animal behavior studies, both working in laboratory and field settings
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part 1. Describing behavior
- Chapter 1. A question of behaviors: how to design, test, and use an ethogram
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplemental material
- Chapter 2. Consistency in data collection: creating operational definitions
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Faculty instructions
- Part III. Supplemental material
- Chapter 3. Observation and inference in observing human and nonhuman behavior
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplemental material
- Chapter 4. A matter of time: comparing observation methods
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary materials
- Chapter 5. Who is taking whom for a walk? An observational study of dog–human interactions
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 6. Movement analysis: expanding the resolution of analysis in animal behavior
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Part 2. Theory of behavior
- Chapter 7. The evolution of behavior: a phylogenetic approach
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Chapter 8. Examining variability in the song of the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material data sheets
- Chapter 9. Learning to be winners and losers: agonistic behavior in crayfish
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 10. Love is blind: investigating the perceptual world of a courting parasitoid
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 11. Are squirrels and ants smart shoppers? How foraging choices may meet current and future needs
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 12. Predators strike and prey counterstrike
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 13. The circle game: intergenerational transmission and modification of solutions to a universal need
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Chapter 14. Demonstrating strategies for solving the prisoner's dilemma
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 15. Using empirical games to teach animal behavior
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part 3. Application of behavior
- Chapter 16. Finding food is fun! Location discrimination training
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 17. Using natural behavior as a guide for welfare
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 18. Conservation behavior: effects of light pollution on insects
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 19. Animal enrichment: creating functional and stimulating enrichment for captive animals. Observing and assessing their use and impact
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 20. A nonverbal test battery for evaluating physical and social cognition
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Part 4. Communicating behavior
- Chapter 21. Learning from the primary literature of animal behavior
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 22. The fine print: process and permissions for behavioral research
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II: Instructor's notes
- Chapter 23. Writing science for the general public
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Chapter 24. Effective scientific writing
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Chapter 25. Writing and reviewing grant proposals
- Part I. Student instructions
- Part II. Instructor notes
- Part III. Supplementary material
- Appendix 1. Tools for observational data collection
- Appendix 2. Basic statistics for behavior
- Citation formats for the sciences
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: July 19, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 494
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128214107
- eBook ISBN: 9780128224397
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Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo
Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo is currently an Associate Professor of Biology at Georgia State University Perimeter College. She received her PhD in Biological Sciences from Auburn University. Dr. Zimbler-DeLorenzo has been a member of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) since 2004 and held the position as Chair of the Education Committee for ABS from 2018 to 2020.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Alfred University, NY, USASM
Susan W. Margulis
Susan Margulis is currently a Professor and Department Chair of Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Biology at Canisius College. Dr. Margulis received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Evolutionary Biology, presenting her thesis on the effects of inbreeding on parental behavior and reproductive success in two subspecies of the oldfield mouse. She has been a member of the Animal Behavior Society since 1980, and also serves as a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Animal Behavior Society Education Committee, EthoSource, and as a research advisor for the Gibbon Species Survival Plan.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Department Chair of Animal Behavior, Ecology, Conservation, and Biology, Canisius College, University of Chicago, USARead Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field on ScienceDirect