Ethology (Animal Behaviour)
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Ethology is the science of the study of animal behaviour. This is a comparatively new science developed during the last century. It deals with the response of animals to various stimuli and factors operating in the environment.
The following chapters are included in this section:
- Books on Behaviour
- Sensory filtering or stimulus filtering
- Sign stimuli and responsiveness
- Drive, urge or motivation
- Types of learning
- Pheromones in alarm spreading
- Crypsis and predator-prey interactions
- Social life of insects
- Social life of primates
- Courtship behaviour in Drosophila, fish and birds
- Orientation, navigation and homing
- Chronobiology (Biological rhythms and biological clock)
- Methods of studying animal behaviour