| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Questions about animal behaviour | p. 5 |
| The escaping cockroach | p. 7 |
| The courtship of the sage grouse | p. 11 |
| Units of the nervous system | p. 16 |
| Reflexes and more complex behaviour | p. 20 |
| Diversity and unity in the study of behaviour | p. 30 |
| Summary | p. 31 |
| The development of behaviour | p. 33 |
| Young animals grow up | p. 34 |
| Instinct and learning in their biological setting | p. 40 |
| The characteristics of instinct and learning | p. 45 |
| Genetics and behaviour | p. 49 |
| Development and changes to the nervous system | p. 57 |
| Hormones and early development | p. 62 |
| Early experience and the diversity of parental behaviour | p. 68 |
| Play | p. 78 |
| imprinting | p. 84 |
| Bird song development | p. 94 |
| Conclusions | p. 06 |
| Summary | p. 106 |
| Stimuli and communication | p. 109 |
| What stimuli are and how they act | p. 111 |
| Diverse sensory capacities | p. 114 |
| The problem of pattern recognition | p. 126 |
| Sign stimuli (key features) | p. 128 |
| 'Supernormal' stimuli | p. 130 |
| Neuroethological basis of sign stimuli | p. 135 |
| Other solutions for pattern recognition: generalized feature detection | p. 139 |
| Communication | p. 144 |
| What is communication? | p. 145 |
| Animal signals as effective stimuli | p. 150 |
| Honesty and deception in animal signalling | p. 159 |
| The honeybee dance | p. 164 |
| The calls of vervet monkeys | p. 173 |
| Summary | p. 177 |
| Decision-making and motivation | p. 179 |
| Decision-making on different time scales | p. 182 |
| Decision-making and 'motivation | p. '193 |
| Measuring motivation | p. 193 |
| Is motivation specific or general? | p. 199 |
| Goals as decision points | p. 202 |
| Homeostasis and negative feedback | p. 205 |
| Competition between motivations | p. 209 |
| InMbition/msinhibition | p. 211 |
| Decision-making with incomplete information: the role of signals | p. 213 |
| Conflict and'abnormal'behaviour | p. 217 |
| The physiology of decision-making | p. 220 |
| Hormones and sequences of behaviour | p. 227 |
| Conflict and physiological stress | p. 232 |
| Decision-making, motivation and animal welfare | p. 233 |
| Conclusions | p. 236 |
| Summary | p. 237 |
| Learning and memory | p. 239 |
| Learning as part of adaptation | p. 239 |
| Sensitization and habituation | p. 242 |
| Associative learning | p. 246 |
| Specialized types of learning ability | p. 257 |
| What do animals actually learn? | p. 262 |
| Are there higher forms of learning in animals? | p. 264 |
| The comparative study of learning | p. 268 |
| Social learning and culture | p. 272 |
| The nature of animal minds | p. 276 |
| The nature of memory | p. 294 |
| Summary | p. 298 |
| Evolution | p. 301 |
| The adaptiveness of behaviour | p. 302 |
| Genes and behavioural evolution | p. 310 |
| Kin selection and inclusive fitness | p. 316 |
| Evolutionarily stable strategies | p. 328 |
| Sex1 and sexual selection | p. 336 |
| Species isolation and species selection | p. 345 |
| Tinbergen's fourth question: the phylogeny of behaviour | p. 348 |
| Summary | p. 353 |
| Social organization | p. 355 |
| The individual in the crowd | p. 355 |
| Advantages of grouping | p. 358 |
| Diverse social groups | p. 364 |
| Eusociality: division into castes | p. 364 |
| Territory in the social organization of vertebrates | p. 369 |
| Mating systems and social organization | p. 373 |
| Dominance in social systems | p. 378 |
| Diverse mammalian social behaviour | p. 381 |
| Primate social organization | p. 388 |
| Summary | p. 403 |
| References | p. 405 |
| Figure credits | p. 435 |
| Index | p. 442 |
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