Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
- 3 Edición - 15 de junio de 2026
- Última edición
- Editor: Benjamin Oldroyd
- Idioma: Inglés
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Third Edition, Four Volume Set is a unique curated collection of punchy essays on all aspects of animal behavior, written by experts and carefu… Leer más
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Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Third Edition, Four Volume Set is a unique curated collection of punchy essays on all aspects of animal behavior, written by experts and carefully edited for readability and accessibility. Animal behavior is usually defined as what animals do, i.e. their movements. We can ask how they move, (i.e. the physiological and neurological causes of movement) and why they move. To answer this latter question, behavioralists generally turn to evolutionary explanations. The Encyclopedia gives equal weight to these ‘how’ (proximate) and `why` (ultimate) explanations of animal behavior. The third edition updates and expands the previous version to cover all substantive topics in the field. Animal behavior is one of the largest subdisciplines in biology. Therefore, chapters focus on broad concepts and avoid becoming entrapped in taxon-specific detail. To illustrate this, one could consider the topic ‘cooperative hunting’. One way to cover this topic would be to have individual chapters on hunting in lions, mongoose, African wild dogs, army ants, dolphins etc. But it would serve the reader much better if a comparative approach was taken to see if there are commonalities across taxa. For example, is communication necessary for cooperative hunting? Is there any evidence of planning or is every hunt opportunistic? This comparative approach requires authors to provide a synthesis, pushing beyond specific taxa of expertise, but helps readers making useful connections. This is a fundamental feature of this work. This edition retains chapters on the historical development of the field, which is important to our understanding of where the discipline sits today, but similarly the work is forward leaning, including the authors` perspective of where their discipline is headed. Structured chapters and cross-references help readers following their interests with ease. Like a bird field guide, this encyclopedia is an entrée to deeper knowledge. Readers of the encyclopedia are encouraged to explore beyond individual chapters via links to related ones, key reviews and relevant online material.
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- Comprehensive: covers the entire field of animal behavior, making the encyclopedia the go-to reference for getting up-to-speed on any substantive topic
- Conceptual: Each chapter focuses on broad concepts and avoids becoming entrapped in taxon-specific detail. This allows readers to make useful connections, beyond their direct specialty
- Authoritative: transparency over authorship and editorship means that the Encyclopaedia can be used by students and scientists as a reliable and citable reference
- Connected: structured chapters and cross-references allow readers to explore connected topics, and find pointers to further reading and online resources
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De interès para
Students and practising scientists in areas related to general biology, behavioral ecology, neuroscience, animal welfare, animal science, veterinary science, ethology
Índice
Índice
Volume 1
Acoustical signals and signalers—In air and water
Adjustments to facilitate communication in noisy environments
Avian tool use in the wild
Bird vocalizations and linguistics
Categories and concepts: Language-related competences in non-linguistic species
Chemical Signaling: Air, Water, and on the Substrate
Chimpanzee and bonobo
Chimpanzees
Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees
Cold-blooded cognition: Cognition in testudines
Collaborative behavior
Communication networks
Comparative thanatology: Responses to the dying and dead, with special reference to primates
Conflict resolution
Deception: Competition by Misleading Behavior
Electric Signals
Empathetic Behavior
Evolution of animal tool use and cumulative culture
Gaze and behavior tracking in animal research: Granularity, automation, and technological choice
Gestural Communication in the Great Apes
Grey parrots: Studies in avian cognition
Hemispherical asymmetry in animal cognition (across species)
Individual signatures in animal groups: Cetaceans
Mating signals, including advertisement and courtship
Mental Time Travel: Can Animals Recall the Past and Plan for the Future?
Metacognition and metamemory in nonhuman animals
Multimodal communication in elephants: Insights into sensory perception, signal production and conservation applications
Multimodal Signaling
Non-elemental learning in invertebrates
Parent–offspring signaling
Primate archaeology
Rhythm and music in animal signals
Signals in conflict resolution: Conventional signals, aggression and territoriality
Signals in insect social organization
Telling your friends where the goodies are – Recruitment signals for food and habitat
The evolution of diverse intelligences: comparing corvid and cephalopod cognition
The primate face
Vibrational Signals: Sounds Transmitted Through Solids
What animals know about time
Animal medication: The passive prevention and active treatment of self and others
Antipredator benefits from heterospecifics
Anti-predatory vigilance
Aposematism as a defense against predation
Application and inspiration of Optimal Foraging Theory for human endeavors outside biology
Avoidance of parasites
Climate, cooperation and social evolution
Collective intelligence in social animals
Data coding, measurement error, and reliability
Defensive avoidance
Defensive chemicals
Defensive coloration
Defensive risk-taking in animals
Disease Transmission and Networks
Ecology of Fear
Ectoparasite behavior
Food hoarding
Foraging in Groups
Foraging is fundamental for all life
Group living and predation
Group Movement
Habitat Selection
How variance and risk affect foraging behavior
Hunger and satiety: Linking mechanisms, behavior, ecology and evolution
Indirect Genetic Effects
Integrating evolution, development, and behavior
Internal energy storage
Intraguild predation (IGP)
Links between nutrition, immunity and infection
Methodology: Cost-benefit analysis
Migration in insects
Parasitism and host behavior
Patch Exploitation
Personality and evolution
Plant-pollinator co-evolution and Optimal Foraging Theory
Predation risk and life histories
Predator avoidance: Mechanisms
Predator Evasion
Quantitative genetics of behavior
Research design: Basic concepts in correlational and experimental studies
Social behavior and parasites
Specialization
Swordtails and platyfishes
The architecture of termite mounds
Understanding movements of foraging animals – An approach based on Optimal Foraging Theory
Volume 2
Aggression and territoriality
Aging and behavior in honey bees
Animal personalities and behavioral genetics
Aquatic invertebrate endocrine disruption
Behavioral endocrinology: Immune systems and sickness behaviors
Behavioral genetics of dog breeds
Behavioral genetics of social insects
Caste in social insects: Genetic influences over caste determination
Cellular epigenetics and behavioral evolution
Circadian and Circannual Rhythms and Hormones
Communication and Hormones
Drosophila behavior genetics
Endocrine and behavioral regulation of water and salt intake in vertebrates
Evolution and genomics of bird migration
Evolution of behavior: Genotype to phenotype
Evolution of the nervous system in relation to behavior
Evolutionary behavioral genetics
Experimental approaches to hormones and behavior: Invertebrates
Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
Female Sexual Behavior: Hormonal Basis in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
Field techniques in hormones and behavior
Fight or flight responses
Food intake: Behavioral endocrinology
Hibernation, daily torpor and estivation in mammals and birds: Behavioral aspects
Hormonal and neuromuscular regulation of courtship displays
Hormones and behavior: Basic concepts
Hormones and parental behavior in non-mammalian vertebrates
Hormones and sleep
Invertebrate Hormones and Behavior
Life Histories and Network Function
Major histocompatibility complex genes and mate choice
Male sexual behavior and hormones in non-mammalian vertebrates
Maternal Effects on Behavior
Memory, Learning, Hormones and Behavior
Neurobiology, endocrinology and behavior
Neuroethology: Methods
Pair bonding, mating systems, and hormones in vertebrates
Paramecium behavioral genetics
Parental Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
Seasonality: Hormones and behavior
Sex change in reef fishes: Behavior and physiology
Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Male Mammals
Social network analysis
Sociogenomics
Studying the genetics of behavior in the genomics era
Tadpole behavior and metamorphosis
The gut-brain axis: Learning from social insects
The Oxytocin System: Single Gene Effects on Social Behavior Across Species
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance and Social Evolution
Unicolonial ants: Loss of colony identity
Vertebrate endocrine disruption
Volume 3
Bateman's principles: Original experiment and modern data for and against
Birds with Penises: Copulation Mechanics and Behavior
Brood parasitism
Colony founding in social insects
Compensation in Reproduction
Contact incubation in birds
Cooperative breeding
Crustacean social evolution
Cryptic Female Choice
Differential allocation
Division of labor in social insects
Experiment, observation, and modeling in the lab and field
Flexible mate choice
Gamete sharing by “cloacal kissing”
Helping behavior in birds and mammals
Hermaphrodite mating systems
Infanticide
Intraspecific reproductive parasitism in social insects
Isolating mechanisms and speciation
Kin Selection and Relatedness
Mate choice in males and females
Mating systems in mammals
Mating systems of New World monkeys
Mating systems of old world monkeys
Microbes: Social evolution
Nest building in birds
Nest site choice in social insects
Parasites and insects: Aspects of social behavior
Parasites and Sexual Selection
Parasitoids: Ecology and evolution of host defense and counterdefense
Propagule behavior and parasite transmission
Queen-Queen Conflict in Eusocial Insect Colonies
Queen–Worker Conflicts Over Colony Sex Ratio
Rape, Forced and Aggressively Coerced Copulation
Reproductive behavior and parasites: Invertebrates
Reproductive behavior and parasites: Vertebrates
Reproductive behavior in the Hyaenidae
Reproductive interference
Reproductive skew, cooperative breeding, and eusociality in vertebrates: Hormones
Reproductive Success
Sex allocation, sex ratios and reproduction
Sex changing organisms and reproductive behavior
Sexual selection and speciation
Social behavior: Ant, bee and wasp social evolution
Social evolution in “other” insects and arachnids
Social evolution in termites
Sperm competition
Subsociality and the Evolution of Eusociality
The Honey Bee's Dance Language
Worker conflict and worker policing
Animal architecture
Animal behavior: Antiquity to the 16th century
Animal behavior: The 17th to the 19th centuries
Aplysia
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Betta splendens: A model for genetic, environmental, and neurophysiological determinants of behavior
Biologgers and remote sensors of animal behavior
Blue tits
Boobies: Models of evolved family conflict
Bowerbirds
Cockroaches: More interesting than you think
Comparative Animal Behavior - 1920 - 1973
Darwin and the study of animal learning and behavior
Dictyostelium, the social amoeba
Dominance relationships, dominance hierarchies and rankings
Endocrinology and Behavior: Methods
Ethograms, Activity Profiles, and Energy Budgets
Freshwater turtles: Their biology, nesting, mating, and environmental sex determination
From ethology to behavioral biology
From solitude to swarms: The behavioral biology of locusts
Future of animal behavior: Predicting trends
Game theory
Gene and meme
History of the study of animal behavior – 20th century
Honeybees: The model social insects
Integration of proximate and ultimate causes
Karl von Frisch: Experimental behavioral ecologist, ethologist and comparative sensory physiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Niko Tinbergen
Norway Rats
Pigeons
Psychology of Animals
Rhesus Macaques
Sequence analysis and transition models
Sharks and rays: Iconic species with poorly understood behavior
Sociobiology of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole
Spatial Memory
Spotted hyenas: Smart and powerful social carnivores
The evolution of intergroup conflict in animal societies
The neurobiology of collective behavior: Lessons from honeybees and ants
The sexual and social behavior of the barn swallow
Threespine Stickleback
Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication
Use of robotics in the study of animal behavior
White-Crowned Sparrow
William Donald Hamilton
Wolves: families, neighborhoods and resources
Volume 4
Acoustic communication in insects: Neuroethology
Amphibia: Orientation and migration
Animal culture
Apes: Social learning
Avian social learning
Bat Migration
Bat neuroethology
Behavioral aspects of insect walking
Bird Migration
Costs of Learning
Ears and hearing in vertebrates
Electroreception in vertebrates and invertebrates
Fish Migration
Habitat imprinting and natal habitat preference induction
Habituation: Behavioral and neural mechanisms in model systems
Hearing: Insects
Imitation in non-human animals
Infrared perception in invertebrates
Insect migration
Insect navigation
Insect social learning
Invertebrate Pheromones Models for Neuroethology
Invertebrate vision
Leech Behavioral Choice Neuroethology
Magnetic compasses in insects
Magnetoreception - The mechanisms, molecules and circuits
Maps and compasses in animal navigation
Mate Choice and Learning
Monkeys and prosimians: Social learning
Nematode learning and memory: Neuroethology
Neuroethology of parasitoid wasps
Neuroethology of sound localization in birds
Operant learning in invertebrates
Orientation, navigation and homing in bats
Pavlovian learning in invertebrates
Play behavior
Sea turtles: Navigation and orientation
Social information use
Social learning in fishes
Social learning in non-primate mammals
Social Learning Theory
Taste perception in insects
Taste: Vertebrates
Vertical migration of aquatic animals
Vibration Perception Vertebrates
Vision Vertebrates
Vocal Learning
Applications of animal behavior to conservation
Humans and wildlife: From conflict to coexistence
Human impact, behavior and conservation
Learning and conservation
Wildlife in urban environments
Wildlife tourism
Light pollution and its impacts on animal behavior
Noise pollution and conservation
Behavioral responses to climate change and chemical pollution
Habitat deterioration, signals and conservation
Conservation behavior and endocrinology
The surprising link between animal behavior and the process of seed dispersal
Welfare concepts
Assessment of welfare and needs
Behavioral indicators of good welfare
Sentience
Pain in mammals; physiology, management and assessment
Stress, health and social behavior
Stereotypies and other abnormal behavior in welfare assessment
Sickness behavior in animals: Implications for health and wellness
Behavioral changes in captivity: Consequences for captive breeding and reintroduction programs
Overview of animal training: A welfare perspective
Slaughter plants: Behavior and welfare assessment
Welfare and interactions between humans and companion animals
When expectations are thwarted: Indicators and causes of frustration in hens
Behavior as a welfare measure in commercial broiler chickens
Pig behavior and welfare
Racehorse behavior, training and welfare
Vocal communication between humans and animals
Evolutionary history of dogs relationship with people
Acoustical signals and signalers—In air and water
Adjustments to facilitate communication in noisy environments
Avian tool use in the wild
Bird vocalizations and linguistics
Categories and concepts: Language-related competences in non-linguistic species
Chemical Signaling: Air, Water, and on the Substrate
Chimpanzee and bonobo
Chimpanzees
Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees
Cold-blooded cognition: Cognition in testudines
Collaborative behavior
Communication networks
Comparative thanatology: Responses to the dying and dead, with special reference to primates
Conflict resolution
Deception: Competition by Misleading Behavior
Electric Signals
Empathetic Behavior
Evolution of animal tool use and cumulative culture
Gaze and behavior tracking in animal research: Granularity, automation, and technological choice
Gestural Communication in the Great Apes
Grey parrots: Studies in avian cognition
Hemispherical asymmetry in animal cognition (across species)
Individual signatures in animal groups: Cetaceans
Mating signals, including advertisement and courtship
Mental Time Travel: Can Animals Recall the Past and Plan for the Future?
Metacognition and metamemory in nonhuman animals
Multimodal communication in elephants: Insights into sensory perception, signal production and conservation applications
Multimodal Signaling
Non-elemental learning in invertebrates
Parent–offspring signaling
Primate archaeology
Rhythm and music in animal signals
Signals in conflict resolution: Conventional signals, aggression and territoriality
Signals in insect social organization
Telling your friends where the goodies are – Recruitment signals for food and habitat
The evolution of diverse intelligences: comparing corvid and cephalopod cognition
The primate face
Vibrational Signals: Sounds Transmitted Through Solids
What animals know about time
Animal medication: The passive prevention and active treatment of self and others
Antipredator benefits from heterospecifics
Anti-predatory vigilance
Aposematism as a defense against predation
Application and inspiration of Optimal Foraging Theory for human endeavors outside biology
Avoidance of parasites
Climate, cooperation and social evolution
Collective intelligence in social animals
Data coding, measurement error, and reliability
Defensive avoidance
Defensive chemicals
Defensive coloration
Defensive risk-taking in animals
Disease Transmission and Networks
Ecology of Fear
Ectoparasite behavior
Food hoarding
Foraging in Groups
Foraging is fundamental for all life
Group living and predation
Group Movement
Habitat Selection
How variance and risk affect foraging behavior
Hunger and satiety: Linking mechanisms, behavior, ecology and evolution
Indirect Genetic Effects
Integrating evolution, development, and behavior
Internal energy storage
Intraguild predation (IGP)
Links between nutrition, immunity and infection
Methodology: Cost-benefit analysis
Migration in insects
Parasitism and host behavior
Patch Exploitation
Personality and evolution
Plant-pollinator co-evolution and Optimal Foraging Theory
Predation risk and life histories
Predator avoidance: Mechanisms
Predator Evasion
Quantitative genetics of behavior
Research design: Basic concepts in correlational and experimental studies
Social behavior and parasites
Specialization
Swordtails and platyfishes
The architecture of termite mounds
Understanding movements of foraging animals – An approach based on Optimal Foraging Theory
Volume 2
Aggression and territoriality
Aging and behavior in honey bees
Animal personalities and behavioral genetics
Aquatic invertebrate endocrine disruption
Behavioral endocrinology: Immune systems and sickness behaviors
Behavioral genetics of dog breeds
Behavioral genetics of social insects
Caste in social insects: Genetic influences over caste determination
Cellular epigenetics and behavioral evolution
Circadian and Circannual Rhythms and Hormones
Communication and Hormones
Drosophila behavior genetics
Endocrine and behavioral regulation of water and salt intake in vertebrates
Evolution and genomics of bird migration
Evolution of behavior: Genotype to phenotype
Evolution of the nervous system in relation to behavior
Evolutionary behavioral genetics
Experimental approaches to hormones and behavior: Invertebrates
Female Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
Female Sexual Behavior: Hormonal Basis in Non-Mammalian Vertebrates
Field techniques in hormones and behavior
Fight or flight responses
Food intake: Behavioral endocrinology
Hibernation, daily torpor and estivation in mammals and birds: Behavioral aspects
Hormonal and neuromuscular regulation of courtship displays
Hormones and behavior: Basic concepts
Hormones and parental behavior in non-mammalian vertebrates
Hormones and sleep
Invertebrate Hormones and Behavior
Life Histories and Network Function
Major histocompatibility complex genes and mate choice
Male sexual behavior and hormones in non-mammalian vertebrates
Maternal Effects on Behavior
Memory, Learning, Hormones and Behavior
Neurobiology, endocrinology and behavior
Neuroethology: Methods
Pair bonding, mating systems, and hormones in vertebrates
Paramecium behavioral genetics
Parental Behavior and Hormones in Mammals
Seasonality: Hormones and behavior
Sex change in reef fishes: Behavior and physiology
Sexual Behavior and Hormones in Male Mammals
Social network analysis
Sociogenomics
Studying the genetics of behavior in the genomics era
Tadpole behavior and metamorphosis
The gut-brain axis: Learning from social insects
The Oxytocin System: Single Gene Effects on Social Behavior Across Species
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance and Social Evolution
Unicolonial ants: Loss of colony identity
Vertebrate endocrine disruption
Volume 3
Bateman's principles: Original experiment and modern data for and against
Birds with Penises: Copulation Mechanics and Behavior
Brood parasitism
Colony founding in social insects
Compensation in Reproduction
Contact incubation in birds
Cooperative breeding
Crustacean social evolution
Cryptic Female Choice
Differential allocation
Division of labor in social insects
Experiment, observation, and modeling in the lab and field
Flexible mate choice
Gamete sharing by “cloacal kissing”
Helping behavior in birds and mammals
Hermaphrodite mating systems
Infanticide
Intraspecific reproductive parasitism in social insects
Isolating mechanisms and speciation
Kin Selection and Relatedness
Mate choice in males and females
Mating systems in mammals
Mating systems of New World monkeys
Mating systems of old world monkeys
Microbes: Social evolution
Nest building in birds
Nest site choice in social insects
Parasites and insects: Aspects of social behavior
Parasites and Sexual Selection
Parasitoids: Ecology and evolution of host defense and counterdefense
Propagule behavior and parasite transmission
Queen-Queen Conflict in Eusocial Insect Colonies
Queen–Worker Conflicts Over Colony Sex Ratio
Rape, Forced and Aggressively Coerced Copulation
Reproductive behavior and parasites: Invertebrates
Reproductive behavior and parasites: Vertebrates
Reproductive behavior in the Hyaenidae
Reproductive interference
Reproductive skew, cooperative breeding, and eusociality in vertebrates: Hormones
Reproductive Success
Sex allocation, sex ratios and reproduction
Sex changing organisms and reproductive behavior
Sexual selection and speciation
Social behavior: Ant, bee and wasp social evolution
Social evolution in “other” insects and arachnids
Social evolution in termites
Sperm competition
Subsociality and the Evolution of Eusociality
The Honey Bee's Dance Language
Worker conflict and worker policing
Animal architecture
Animal behavior: Antiquity to the 16th century
Animal behavior: The 17th to the 19th centuries
Aplysia
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Betta splendens: A model for genetic, environmental, and neurophysiological determinants of behavior
Biologgers and remote sensors of animal behavior
Blue tits
Boobies: Models of evolved family conflict
Bowerbirds
Cockroaches: More interesting than you think
Comparative Animal Behavior - 1920 - 1973
Darwin and the study of animal learning and behavior
Dictyostelium, the social amoeba
Dominance relationships, dominance hierarchies and rankings
Endocrinology and Behavior: Methods
Ethograms, Activity Profiles, and Energy Budgets
Freshwater turtles: Their biology, nesting, mating, and environmental sex determination
From ethology to behavioral biology
From solitude to swarms: The behavioral biology of locusts
Future of animal behavior: Predicting trends
Game theory
Gene and meme
History of the study of animal behavior – 20th century
Honeybees: The model social insects
Integration of proximate and ultimate causes
Karl von Frisch: Experimental behavioral ecologist, ethologist and comparative sensory physiologist
Konrad Lorenz
Niko Tinbergen
Norway Rats
Pigeons
Psychology of Animals
Rhesus Macaques
Sequence analysis and transition models
Sharks and rays: Iconic species with poorly understood behavior
Sociobiology of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole
Spatial Memory
Spotted hyenas: Smart and powerful social carnivores
The evolution of intergroup conflict in animal societies
The neurobiology of collective behavior: Lessons from honeybees and ants
The sexual and social behavior of the barn swallow
Threespine Stickleback
Túngara Frog: A Model for Sexual Selection and Communication
Use of robotics in the study of animal behavior
White-Crowned Sparrow
William Donald Hamilton
Wolves: families, neighborhoods and resources
Volume 4
Acoustic communication in insects: Neuroethology
Amphibia: Orientation and migration
Animal culture
Apes: Social learning
Avian social learning
Bat Migration
Bat neuroethology
Behavioral aspects of insect walking
Bird Migration
Costs of Learning
Ears and hearing in vertebrates
Electroreception in vertebrates and invertebrates
Fish Migration
Habitat imprinting and natal habitat preference induction
Habituation: Behavioral and neural mechanisms in model systems
Hearing: Insects
Imitation in non-human animals
Infrared perception in invertebrates
Insect migration
Insect navigation
Insect social learning
Invertebrate Pheromones Models for Neuroethology
Invertebrate vision
Leech Behavioral Choice Neuroethology
Magnetic compasses in insects
Magnetoreception - The mechanisms, molecules and circuits
Maps and compasses in animal navigation
Mate Choice and Learning
Monkeys and prosimians: Social learning
Nematode learning and memory: Neuroethology
Neuroethology of parasitoid wasps
Neuroethology of sound localization in birds
Operant learning in invertebrates
Orientation, navigation and homing in bats
Pavlovian learning in invertebrates
Play behavior
Sea turtles: Navigation and orientation
Social information use
Social learning in fishes
Social learning in non-primate mammals
Social Learning Theory
Taste perception in insects
Taste: Vertebrates
Vertical migration of aquatic animals
Vibration Perception Vertebrates
Vision Vertebrates
Vocal Learning
Applications of animal behavior to conservation
Humans and wildlife: From conflict to coexistence
Human impact, behavior and conservation
Learning and conservation
Wildlife in urban environments
Wildlife tourism
Light pollution and its impacts on animal behavior
Noise pollution and conservation
Behavioral responses to climate change and chemical pollution
Habitat deterioration, signals and conservation
Conservation behavior and endocrinology
The surprising link between animal behavior and the process of seed dispersal
Welfare concepts
Assessment of welfare and needs
Behavioral indicators of good welfare
Sentience
Pain in mammals; physiology, management and assessment
Stress, health and social behavior
Stereotypies and other abnormal behavior in welfare assessment
Sickness behavior in animals: Implications for health and wellness
Behavioral changes in captivity: Consequences for captive breeding and reintroduction programs
Overview of animal training: A welfare perspective
Slaughter plants: Behavior and welfare assessment
Welfare and interactions between humans and companion animals
When expectations are thwarted: Indicators and causes of frustration in hens
Behavior as a welfare measure in commercial broiler chickens
Pig behavior and welfare
Racehorse behavior, training and welfare
Vocal communication between humans and animals
Evolutionary history of dogs relationship with people
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- Edición: 3
- Última edición
- Publicado: 15 de junio de 2026
- Idioma: Inglés
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Benjamin Oldroyd
Ben Oldroyd is Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney. He completed a BSc in Agriculture at the University of Sydney in 1980, and a PhD on bee breeding in 1984. Ben’s research focuses on the behavioural genetics of honey bees, the evolution of social behaviour and evolution more broadly. In 2001 Ben was awarded a Doctor of Science for his contributions to the understanding of the evolution of honey bee societies. Ben is heavily involved with the Australian beekeeping industry, including helping beekeepers breed better, healthier, strains. Ben has made important contributions to our understanding of the biology of Asian honey bees and Cape bees. His book Asian Honey Bees: Biology (Harvard University Press) is the authoritative text on the subject. Ben has authored over 300 scientific papers on honey bees and stingless bees and his papers have been cited over 16,000 times.
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Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics, University of Sydney, Australia