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基本説明
Concise, introductory text covers behaviour, genetics, physiology and motivation, and social and reproductive behaviour, details behaviour of individual farm animal species and dogs, cats, rabbits and rodents.
Full Description
Modern farm environments are profoundly different from the natural habitats of the ancestors of today's farm animals, and through genetic selection, the appearance and behaviour of the animals themselves have also changed. However, the legacy of the ancestors is still obvious, and some apparently bizarre actions are only possible to understand in the light of the evolutionary history of the species. On the other hand, some of the behaviour we can observe in animals in a modern farm or in a laboratory are not part of the normal, species-specific behaviour at all. They may even indicate that the animal is under stress and that its welfare is poor. Distinguishing between these possibilities is one important goal for applied ethology. This revised and updated edition includes extended coverage of dog behaviour and human-animal interactions as well as novel and intriguing research findings. The issue of animal cognition, central to understanding welfare, has also received a more thorough examination.
Contents
PART Abehaviour and its applications 2: Behavioural genetics, evolution and domestication 3: Behaviour and physiology 4: Motivation and the organisation of behaviour 5: Learning and cognition 6: Social and reproductive behaviour 7: Abonormal behaviour, stress and welfare 8: Human-animal relations PART B: Species-specific behaviour of some important domestic animals 9: Behaviour of fowl and other domesticated birds 10: Behaviour of horses 11: Behaviour of cattle 12: Behaviour of sheep and goats 13: Behaviour of pigs 14: Behaviour of dogs 15: Behaviour of cats 16: Behaviour of laboratory mice and rats
