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• Introduction to animal ethology

• Animal innate behavior
  • Animal defensive behavior
  • Animal division of labour
  • Animal drinking behavior
  • Animal escape behaviour
  • Animal feeding behaviour
  • Animal exploratory behavior
  • Animal grooming behavior
  • Animal hoarding behavior
  • Animal instinctive behavior
  • Animal licking behavior
  • Animal nocturnal behavior
  • Animal motivation
  • Animal predatory behavior
  • Animal scent marking

• Animal open field behavior
  • Animal breeding
  • Animal foraging behavior
  • Animal homing
  • Animal locomotion
  • Animal navigation
  • Migratory behaviour (animal)

• Animal physiology
  • Animal biological rhythms
  • Animal circadian rythms
  • Animal colouration
  • Animal drinking behavior
  • Animal emotionality
  • Animal feeding behavior

• Animal sexual behavior
  • Animal courtship behavior
  • Animal courtship displays
  • Animal sex differences
  • Animal sexual receptivity
  • Animal mating behavior
  • Animal mate selection

• Animal rearing
  • Animal maternal behavior -
  • Animal maternal deprivation -
  • Animal parental behavior -
  • Animal paternal behaviour -
  • Animal play
  • Nestbuilding

• Animal social behavior
  • Animal defensive behavior
  • Animal distress calls
  • Animal dominance
  • Animal communication
  • Animal vocalizations
  • Species recognition
  • Territorality

• Animals and man
  • Animal assisted therapy -
  • Animal breeding
  • Animal captivity
  • Animal domestication
  • Animal human interaction
  • Animal rearing

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See also

• Alarm responses
• Animal motivation
• Echolocation
• Fossil behavior
• Hibernation
• Imprinting
• Licking
• Stereotyped behavior
• Tool use

Key texts

Books

• Bekoff, M (2004) Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. 3vols. Greenwood Press.
• Grzimek, B.(1977), Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Ethology
• McFarland, D.(1999). Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology and Evolution. Longman. ISBN: 0582327326 ISBN: 9780582327320

Additional material

Books

• Drickamer, L. & Dewsbury, D. ( ), Leaders in Animal Behaviour. The Second Generation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521741293
• Dewsbury, D. A. (1978) Habits and behaviour of Animals : McGraw-Hill,New York ; London. ISBN: 0070166730

External links

• [CSA Animal Behavior Abstracts] - A Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Database covering all aspects of animal behaviour, including neurophysiology, behavioral ecology, genetics, applied ethology and other related areas.From !982 onwards