Patterns of Parental Behavior: From Animal Science to Comparative Ethology and Neuroscience

Modern neuroscience has presented new opportunities for exploring the  molecular and neural mechanisms controlling specific social responses.  This book reviews insights into the neural circuits underlying a  particularly fascinating form of social interaction, parental behavior.  This book presents a detailed review of maternal and paternal behavior  of particular mammalian species. It offer neuroscientists a spectrum of  specific mammals that can be used as experimental models to explore  particular topics on the functions of the nervous system. It shows that  results coming from the laboratory can be translated into useful  information for raising mammals on the farm, and it stimulates  biologists to gain insights into the underpinnings of the  complex mechanisms governing mammalian behavior in the wild.  It also  discusses the implications of this research for human parental  behavior.