Download or read book Animal Behaviour Classic Reprint written by C. Lloyd Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Behaviour My book on "Animal Life and Intelligence" being out of print, I undertook to revise it for a new Edition. As the work of revision proceeded, however, it appeared that the amended treatment would not fall conveniently under the previous scheme of arrangement. I therefore decided to write a new book under the title of "Animal Behaviour." A few passages from the older work have been introduced, and some of the observations and conclusions already published in greater detail in "Habit and Instinct" have been, summarized. But it will be found that these occupy a relatively small space in the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Studies in Animal Behavior Classic Reprint written by Samuel J. Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Animal Behavior Cattell for his generous permission to republish chapter VI from Science, and chapter XIII and parts of chapter XI from the Popular Science Monthly. The Wisconsin Society of Natural His tory has very kindly allowed me to republish chapter III which originally appeared in the bulletin of that society for June, 1912. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior 1913 Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, 1913, Vol. 3 All the animals being sufficiently automatic in their responses to one stimulus. We decided gradually to introduce the second stimulus. Accordingly, both lights were equated in energy. Then the light reacted against was cut down by means of the rotating sector. Table IV Shows the results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior 1911 Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, 1911, Vol. 1 If we attempt to analyse the method by which an animal is able visually to recognize familiar objects it may well be sup posed that the impressions which it gains are either general or particular. As men recognize familiar forms and faces at a distance without definitely considering or perceiving the finer details of feature and expression, so animals by observing gross outlines and characteristic movements may draw conclusions as to the nature of the forms around them. Such generalized recognition of familiar objects may be considered, in part at least, to have resulted from an educational process. Its acqui sition is the result of long association with the objects in ques tion. Throughout this association an appreciation of certain finer distinctive differences, whether consciously or subcon sciously manifest, has been a fundamental factor in producing in the animal mind a concrete appreciation of the object's iden tity in terms of the whole. With the human mind such processes are of common occur rence. A stranger first met with is afterward recognized by the recollection of some peculiarity which has been impressed upon us. With further acquaintance we forget the peculiarity or it becomes subconscious, while recognition is based on the broader lines of general association. The systematic entomol ogist, by laborious examination of detailed structure, differen tiates between closely related species of insects hitherto unknown to him. But if he specializes upon the group, his recognition of the various familiar species forming it in time becomes almost intuitive, - he knows them by sight without consciously analysing their differential markings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Investigation of Mind in Animals Classic Reprint written by E. M. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Investigation of Mind in Animals Animals has rendered a certain amount of revision necessary. To incorporate the results of the numerous papers bearing on the subject of Animal Behaviour which have been published since 1914. Would have meant adding greatly to the size of the book, and as the majority of these contributions revolve round difficult questions of technique, or are somewhat controversial in nature, discussion of them would not have been in place in a short introduction to the subject. One section, however, deals with entirely new matter. The final section of the first edition, which gave an account of the famous 'talking' horses, I have decided to omit from the present edition, and to replace it by a discussion of the Multiple Choice method of Yerkes and the method of study ing perseverance reactions devised by van Hamil ton. As yet these methods have not been widely applied, but it is to be anticipated that they will be considerably developed and extended in the future. For the rest the alterations in the text are chiefly verbal in character. Certain additions have been made to the bibliography. I desire to express my indebtedness to my husband, Mr F. C. Bartlett, for his help in pre paring this new edition for the press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior 1917 Vol 7 Classic Reprint written by Robert M. Yerkes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, 1917, Vol. 7 The numbers give the amount of light allowed to fall through the gray prisms in. Percentages Of the whole amount striking these, the motor equation determ ining the former amount. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Madison Bentley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, Vol. 5 Professor Watson based his conclusions, as to the uselessness of Vision in the maze, upon the fact that normal rats trained 1n the light could run the maze as quickly in the dark; that normal rats could learn the maze in the dark and acquire as rapid speed as in the light; and that blind rats could learn the maze and run it With a speed equal to that of their normal companions. It has been shown by others that it is scarcely fair, in such a situ ation, to make speed the sole criterion of the learning process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior 1912 Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, 1912, Vol. 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Foundations of Animal Behavior written by Lynne D. Houck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Darwin's work in the 1870s, Foundations of Animal Behavior selects the most important works from the discipline's first hundred years—forty-four classic papers—and presents them in facsimile, tracing the development of the field. These papers are classics because they either founded a line of investigation, established a basic method, or provided a new approach to an important research question. The papers are divided into six sections, each introduced by prominent researchers. Sections one and two cover the origins and history of the field and the emergence of basic methods and approaches. They provide a background for sections three through six, which focus on development and learning; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; sensory processes, orientation, and communication; and the evolution of behavior. This outstanding collection will serve as the basis for undergraduate and graduate seminars and as a reference for researchers in animal behavior, whether they focus on ethology, behavioral ecology, comparative psychology, or anthropology. Published in association with the Animal Behavior Society
Download or read book Neurological Foundations of Animal Behavior Classic Reprint written by C. Judson Herrick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Neurological Foundations of Animal Behavior Several years ago the author of this book, in response to requests for an account of the nervous system especially adapted for the use of zoologists, physiologists, comparative psychologists and students of allied sciences, prepared a brief outline of the general physiology of protoplasmic response to stimulation and the broader aspects of the special functions and structures of the nervous system from the comparative standpoint. This outline was entitled, Biological Foundations of Animal Behavior. As the manuscript developed under repeated revision it became more and more evident that the treatment of the general physiology of excitation and conduction was inadequate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Study of Instinct written by Niko Tinbergen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1951 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolaas Tinbergen won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for his pioneering studies in animal behavior. The Study of Instinct, Tinbergen's first major work, introduced the subject of ethology to an American audience more than forty years ago, and it is still considered one of the best introductions to the field. Long out of print, this reissue of the 1969 edition allows a new generation of readers to explore this classic for themselves. In The Study of Instinct, Tinbergen attempts to organize the study of animal behavior into a coherent whole, focusing on how animals behave in response to stimuli, how physical and neurological characteristics shape instinct, how individual animals develop behavioral patterns, and how they adapt to changing conditions. He illustrates his discussion with fascinating examples taken from his own and other scientists' study of animals. Many of his renowned experiments using models of animals to test hypotheses about behavior are described, including his well-known study of the stickleback fish, in which he shows that it is indeed the red color of their undersides that allows males to single each other out for attack during their springtime competition. Tinbergen concludes with an extensive discussion of evolutionary aspects of behavior. The insights contained in this book paved the way for significant breakthroughs in our understanding of how animals behave in the wild. Anyone interested in the natural world, the behavior of animals, or ecology will find this book essential reading.
Download or read book The Journal of Animal Behavior Vol 4 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of Animal Behavior, Vol. 4: 1914 The Journal of Animal Behavior: 1914 was written by an unknown author in 1914. This is a 454 page book, containing 156236 words and 34 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Social Life of Animals Classic Reprint written by W. C. Allee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Social Life of Animals The spread of time in which eggs are laid in a colony of herring gulls affects the per centage that survive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Animal Intelligence written by Edward L. Thorndike and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies It has seemed best to leave the texts unaltered except for the correction of typographical errors, renumbering of tables and figures, and redrawing the latter. In a few places, where the original text has been found likely to be misunderstood, brief notes have been added. It is hard to resist the impulse to temper the style, especially of the Animal Intelligence, ' with a certain sobriety and restraint. What one writes at the age of twenty-three is likely to irritate oneself a dozen years later, as it doubt less irritated others at the time. The charitable reader may allay his irritation by the thought that a degree of exuberance, even of arrogance, is proper to youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Study of Instinct written by Nikolaas Tinbergen and published by Pygmalion Press, an imprint of Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, The Study of Instinct is widely considered the foundational text of ethology, the study of natural behavior. Written to introduce the largely German literature of the early ethologists to an English-speaking audience, Tinbergen first describes the objectives, scope, and limitations of ethology, then goes on to describe the influence of external stimuli and internal factors on behavior, proposes his famous hierarchical-motivational model for the control of behavior, and ends with accounts of the development, adaptiveness, and evolution of behavior, including human behavior. The volume remains a classic and is often cited in the opening sentence of modern papers on behavior. “... all in all, I think most students will learn more from the seemingly timeless Study of Instinct than from this or any other retrospective.” – Gould 1992, Science “A few parts of the book still strike one as modern. The opening chapter, in which Tinbergen formulates his famous ‘four questions’ about animal behaviour (questions about mechanism, development, adaptiveness and evolution), and discusses the extent to which they are logically separate yet practically interrelated, should be read by every student taking a course in ethology. The section entitled ‘Learning Processes’ is a small masterpiece, prefiguring the ‘constraints on learning’ debate by 20 years and describing Tinbergen’s own classic work on learning in herring gulls and digger wasps... The Study of Instinct still has important general messages for anyone studying ethology; it will always be a significant book for historians of science; and it gives a first-hand account of some of the most important research that has been done on animal behaviour.” – Roper 1989, Trends in Ecology & Evolution “Tinbergen’s book is a positive requirement for all students of behavior. It is most refreshing and stimulating account of some of the important contributions European scholars have been making to the study of instincts, a field of behavior sorely neglected in American psychology today... There is no question but that Tinbergen’s book is an important contribution to the study of behavior.” – Steller 1976, The Quarterly Review of Biology “A well-reasoned and thoroughly readable book which points up the complexity of even the simplest unlearned behavior.” – Thomson 1952, Scientific American “Dr Tinbergen’s book is an admirably clear, authoritative and factual account of recent work on animal instinct which can be strongly recommended to students of biology, both elementary and advanced, as giving a first hand account of the main trends of modern field research into animal behaviour.” – Thorpe 1954, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science “American psychology has concentrated more and more during this century on the behavior of mammals, and even among mammals has restricted itself mostly to primates (man, chimpanzee, macaque) and a cheap primate substitute, the rat (which is not studied for its rattiness, so to speak, but as a bearer of anxiety and a maker of cognitive maps)... The importance of Tinbergen’s book is that it presents systematically a large amount of significant work by the European school of biologists, making it accessible to the English-speaking reader. The dominance of learning theory in America, established by Thorndike, Holt, and Watson, makes us persistently forget the constitutional factor in behavior (that is, instinct), and this book may help bring it to the graduate student’s attention even if his instructors are by now too set in their ways to give it the attention it deserves... The style is somewhat academic, but the book is full of fascinating, and solidly authenticated, observations of animal behavior. It should be read by everyone, psychologist or zoologist, who is interested in mechanisms of response.” – Hebb 1952, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology “[This volume] summarizes much ingenious experimental work and present a point of view that is bound to have an influence on later behavior studies.” – Carmichael 1952, Science “[This] is an important book and one that should be read by all students of animal behavior... The ingenious experiments and theoretical discussions will afford many hours of stimulating reading.” – Aronson 1953, Copeia “... a scholarly and well-documented review of the general field [of ethology]... This books performs a beautiful job of pulling together diverse and diverging observations, experiments and concepts, suggesting theories that will surely lead to much new and fruitful work.” – Bates 1953, American Anthropologist “Tinbergen’s fine book is an important synthesis and a valuable introduction to this actively moving field.” – Greenberg 1952, Physiological Zoology “The final impression one gets from Tinbergen’s book is that of the immense richness and incredible variety of behavioral phenomena which are there for the studying if we break out of our rat-monkey-man triangle.” – O’Kelly 1952, Psychological Bulletin “It is a pleasure to describe and discuss Tinbergen’s work. Well written, with elegant development of ideas and arguments, courageous in challenging faulty views and procedures, calm and confident in style, yet stimulating, the book should be read by anyone interested in the behavior of birds.” – Pitelka 1953, The Condor
Download or read book The Natural History of Some Common Animals written by Oswald Hawkins Latter and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Behaviour in Animals with Special Reference to Vertebrates written by Niko Tinbergen and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1953 New York Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book aims to be a presentation of a biological approach to the phenomena of social behavior in animals. This approach is characterized by the need for careful observation of the variety of social phenomena occurring in nature; by emphasis on a balanced study of the three main biological problems - function, causation, evolution; by emphasis on an appropriate sequence of description, qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis; and finally by emphasis on the need for continuous re-synthesis. The book covers a range of aspects of animal behavior, including mating, fighting, family and group life, and social organizations, as well as some unrelated analytical evidence, acquired under such special laboratory conditions it is at present impossible to say how it is related to the normal life of the species concerned. The significance of intraspecific fighting, the causation of threat and courtship behavior, the functions of releasers and other problems are discussed in detail and an attempt has been made to give them their proper place in the complex system of problems. Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals.
