This accessible introduction to animal behaviour provides an
authoritative yet reader-friendly guide for the interested
naturalist. It presents current knowledge about the way animals
behave and will enable the reader to derive more pleasure from
their observations of animals by gaining a deeper understanding of
their behaviour. The concepts are presented in an easily
appreciated way with which everyone can associate.In the first part
of the book, the author explores how animals behave by considering
the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their
environment and what determines how they respond to it. This is
followed by the 'why' of animal behaviour in which the author
examines many topics under the overall issue of expressing
behaviour, and the evolutionary forces that have shaped - and
continue to shape - the detailed form of more complex behaviours.
Therefore questions such as why animals forage in the way they do
and how that foraging pattern may be refined to optimal efficiency;
why animals adopt a particular reproductive strategy and breeding
behaviour and why some animals live as solitary individuals, while
others live in groups and so on.The book is copiously illustrated
throughout in support and interpretation of the text. While the
pictures enhance understanding of the written text, the text also
showcases the exquisite illustrations of wildlife artist Catherine
Putman.
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