Animal behavior—or ethology—is the systemic study of the behavior of animals. The field is highly integrative and draws on the fields of evolution, ecology, psychology, molecular biology, development, neurobiology, endocrinology, and more. This book looks at a range of topics covering a variety of animals, including how macaques teach their offApril, how rats transmit avoidance behavior, how supplementary feeding of treefrogs affects their breeding behavior, and more. Researchers studied a variety of animals, including macaque, mice, rats, fire ants, treefrogs, magpies, chicks, boobies, honey bees, caterpillars, elephants, and lions. Studies in animal behavior can have far-reaching implications for animals and humans alike, such as how humans can improve conservation efforts, how to better protect animals—both in the wild and in captivity (zoos), and what can be learned about humans from animals, such as how the human brain and behaviors might work.

CONTENTS: Free-Ranging Macaque Mothers Exaggerate Tool-Using Behavior When Observed by OffApril • Mouse Cognition-Related Behavior in the Open-Field:Emergence of Places of Attraction • Altered Behavior and Digestive Outcomes in Adult Male Rats Primed with Minimal Colon Pain as Neonates • Social Transmission of Avoidance Behavior under Situational Change in Learned and Unlearned Rats • Molecular Variation at a Candidate Gene Implicated in the Regulation of Fire Ant Social Behavior • Ultrasonic Communication in Rats:Can Playback of 50-kHz Calls Induce Approach Behavior? • Supplementary Feeding Affects the Breeding Behavior of Male European Treefrogs (Hyla arborea) • Mirror-Induced Behavior in the Magpie (Pica pica):Evidence of Self-Recognition • Precocious Locomotor Behavior Begins in the Egg:Development of Leg Muscle Patterns for Stepping in the Chick • Perinatal Androgens and Adult Behavior Vary with Nestling Social System in Siblicidal Boobies • Transcriptomic Profiling of Central Nervous System Regions in Three Species of Honey Bees during Dance Communication Behavior • Plant Volatiles, Rather than Light, Determine the Nocturnal Behavior of a Caterpillar • Risk and Ethical Concerns of Hunting Male Elephant:Behavioral and Physiological Assays of the Remaining Elephants • Home Range Utilisation and Territorial Behavior of Lions (Panthera leo) on Karongwe Game Reserve, South Africa • Introduced Mammalian Predators Induce Behavioral Changes in Parental Care in an Endemic New Zealand Bird • Index

Entomology is the scientific study of insects. With over 1.3 million species on Planet Earth, insects account for more than two-thirds of all known organisms, and they have been here for more than 400 million years. Because insects have many kinds of interactions with human life, affecting our health and food sources for both good ill, the study of insects is a relevant one in today's world.

Harold Kuzman has studied insects since he was a young boy. In this book he has compiled a broad-based collection of information, providing students of entomology with a well-rounded introduction to the topic.

CONTENTS: Common Insects; Growth and Change; Some Sucking Insects; FromWater to Air; Transformations—Outward and Inward; Larvae and their Adaptations; Pupae and their Modifications; Life-Story and the Seasons; Past and Present:the Meaning of the Story; Outline Classification of Insects;Table of Geological Systems; Glossary of EntomologicalTerms.

Zoology is the branch of science that studies animals. There is a practical need for these studies because our lives are interconnected with the animals that share our planet. By understanding them, we understand ourselves better. By understanding what threatens them, we face that which endangers ourselves. In fact, we cannot draw a line between ourselves and the animal kingdom. The more we learn about zoology, the more we realize how much we have in common with our furred, feathered, finned, and multi-legged brothers and sisters!

CONTENTS: Animal Form and Function; Predator/Prey Relationships; Marine Animal Diversity; The Law of Similarity; The Law of Variation; Crossing; Breeding in the Line; Zoo Breeding:Penguins; Tigers; Rhinoceros Iguana; Sharks; Killer Whales; Jaguar; Koala;Animal Experimentation; Oceanariums; Conservation; Controlling Animal; Populations; Before Darwin;HowDarwin Changed Zoology;Terminology Used in Zoology.