Essays in Animal Behaviour: Celebrating 50 Years of Animal Behaviour (Paperback)

1) Introduction
1. 50 years of Animal Behaviour.

2) The history of behavioural research
2. A textbook history of animal behaviour.
3. Behavioural Ecology: natural history as science
4. The transformation of behaviour field studies.
5. Too much natural history, or too little?
6. A history of Animal Behaviour by a partial, ignorant and prejudiced ethologist.
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3) Proximate mechanisms
7. Genes and social behaviour.
8. Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments.
9. Costing reproduction.

4) Development
10. The promise of behavioural biology.
11. Making a decision by integrating socially and individually acquired information.
12. Behavioural processes affecting development: Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age.
13. The case for developmental ecology.

5) Adaptation
14. Beyond extra-pair paternity: individual constraints, fitness components, and social mating systems
15. Interplay between theory and empiricism in sexual selection.
16. Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behaviour.
17. Honesty and deception in animal signals.
18. Fifty years of bird song research: a case study in animal behaviour.
19. Avian navigation: from historical to modern concepts.

6) Animal Welfare
20. Behaviour and animal welfare.