Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

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 individu