Animal Behaviour: An Evolutionary Perspective

This textbook presents all basic principles of animal behaviour in a  clear and concise manner and illustrates them with up-to-date examples.  Emphasis is placed on behavioural biology as an integrative discipline  of organismic biology, focusing on the adaptive value of behaviours that  facilitate resource access, predator avoidance and reproductive success  and underlie parental care, all within a comprehensive presentation of  social complexity. This new textbook provides a rich resource for  students (and teachers) from a wide range of life science disciplines.