Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, Second EditionRevised and updated, containing over 5,000 entries, with over 1,100 more entries than in the previous edition, Animal Behavior Desk Reference, Second Edition: A Dictionary of Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution provides definitions for terms in animal behavior, biogeography, evolution, ecology, genetics, psychology, statistics, systematics, and other |
Contents
a | 1 |
b | 45 |
c | 82 |
d | 161 |
e | 192 |
f | 229 |
g | 251 |
h | 303 |
q | 584 |
r | 586 |
s | 612 |
t | 724 |
u | 770 |
v | 774 |
w | 783 |
x | 788 |
i | 363 |
j | 382 |
k | 384 |
l | 388 |
m | 411 |
n | 472 |
o | 490 |
p | 506 |
y | 790 |
z | 791 |
Appendix 1 Organisms | 795 |
Appendix 2 Companies Organizations and Societies Concerned with Animal Behavior Animal Welfare Conservation Ecology Evolution and Related ... | 848 |
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Back cover | 923 |
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1-phile acid activity adaptation aggression animal animal’s behavior bird body Campbell cause cell character chromosome cies cole coln coloration combining Comment Comments concept conditioning contrasted cycle definition direct display distribution dominance effect English Dictionary 1972 entries environment evolution evolutionary example factor feeding female fish fitness forest function gamete gene genetic gland Greek habitat Heymer hormone Humans hypothesis Immelmann and Beer individual individual’s inheritance insect involves kinds Latin learning Lincoln Lincoln et al male mating Mayr mean method Michaelis 1963 mimicry movement mutation names natural nest Note occurs organism that lives organism’s origin Oxford English Dictionary parasitism parental particular period person’s pheromone plant population predator principle produced Referring reproductive response result selection sexual signal social Sparkes species stimulus term theory tion usually Wilson young