"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 animals to
behave as they do.
This book provides that opportunity. The authors strike a
balance between modern developments and historical insights,
between new examples and old, between empirical work and theory,
and between pertinent conclusions and the dynamic field and
laboratory experiences from which such discoveries arise.
Considerably updated and expanded, this edition includes 26 case
studies, as well as 45 new color plates and 173 figures (over 40%
of them new) with detailed legends that add richness to the
well-written, accessible text.
Like the course that originally inspired it, "Insect Behavior"
will find utility at the graduate and senior undergraduate level
for college and university students. However, although some
background in entomology or animal behavior is helpful, an in-depth
knowledge is not a prerequisite. Thus, the book also invites
comparative psychologists, science educators, and all others with
an interest in the physically small but inestimably important
creatures that comprise three-quarters of all animal life on our
planet. "
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