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Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field edited by Bonnie J Ploger and Ken Yasukawa

By Adrian Barnett

9 February 2005

EVER wondered how biologists learn about the nitty-gritty of what lions, elephants and parrots do in the wild? Have you been tempted to try fieldwork yourself? Then this is a great book for you. Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field guides you through the techniques to observe, record and quantify a great variety of animal behaviours. It teaches not only how to obtain your data, but also how to log it, while introducing a whole world of questions to consider, from “are African clawed frogs more or less aggressive to close relatives than strangers?” to “what determines where…

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