Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Sensory function: behavioural and physiological evidence; 3. The control of movement; 4. The allocation of resources; 5. Body regulation, maintenance and hazard avoidance behaviour; 6. Feeding; 7. Anti-predator behaviour; 8. Functions of social behaviour and dispersal; 9. Reproductive behaviour, including parent-offspring interactions; 10. The organisation of social groups; References; Indexes.

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This book is an introduction to studies of the behaviour of a wide variety of animals including man, farm animals and pest species.