Basics of Animal Behaviour/Satish Gulati. New
Delhi, Anmol, 2008, viii, 274 p., ISBN 81-261-3500-4.
Basics of Animal Behaviour/Satish Gulati. New
Delhi, Anmol, 2008, viii, 274 p., ISBN 81-261-3500-4.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Expanding horizons in animal behaviour. 3. Awareness in animals. 4. The behaviouristic objection. 5. General measures of behaviour. 6. Concepts in behavioural ecology. 7. Ecological indicators of risk for primates, as judged by species' susceptibility to logging. 8. Future prey: some consequences of the loss and restoration of large carnivores. 9. Contributions of behavioural studies to captive management and breeding of rare and endangered mammals. 10. Behaviour as a tool for management intervention in birds. 11. The role of behavioural ecology. 12. Mating systems and conservation intervention. 13. Behavioural ecology of dispersal. 14. Behavioural ecology, genetic diversity, and declining amphibian populations. 15. Human behavioural ecology. 16. The management of subsistence harvesting: behavioural ecology of hunters and their Mammalian prey.
"This book is intended for the student of graduate level. It provides all the basic concepts and latest information on animal behaviour. As the phenomena of evolution is on run so all the relevant fields are affected and ever changing. The author have tried his best to gather all the latest information to provide all the update concepts.
Further this book introduced some new concepts with the old one. Again it discusses the major problems up-coming in the near future. And also it emphasized on how to check those.
This book deal with the field of animal behaviour an exploration of the mental experiences of animals, particularly as they behave in their natural environment in the course of their normal lives. The field had its beginnings in areas such as comparative psychology, classical ethology, laboratory experimental psychology, and philosophy of science." (jacket)