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(0)P. J. B Slater
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"Essentials of Animal Behaviour is an introduction to the study of animal behaviour and is primarily intended for first or second year undergraduates attending short courses in the subject. The book concentrates on putting across the basic principles as briefly and lucidly as possible with the aid of carefully selected examples from both the recent and classic literature, together with numerous illustrations."--Jacket.
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Bird song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? The subject has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour onto which research on song does not shed some light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, and reviews the large literature written on the subject. The book is written with a wide readership...