The Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior

The Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior. Published by Oxford University Press, NY, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound, No DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: Nr Fine. ISBN 0198661207. LCCN 82-80431. Edited by David McFarland, Fellow of Balliol College, Reader in Animal Behaviour, and Head of Animal Behaviour Research Group, Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Foreword by Niko Tinbergen, FRS. This book was designed as a non-specialist introduction to the study of animal behaviour. Its scope includes the scientific discipline of ethology and touches upon the related disciplines of ecology, genetics, physiology, and psychology. Presented in dictionary style, it is a handbook and not a dictionary or encyclopedia. It is intended to provide the reader with a guide to current scientific thought on all aspects of animal behaviour and to aid further study by means of bibliographical references. 657 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 14170.