Etologie - Mechanismy, ontogeneze, funkce a evoluce chování živočichů – Špinka Marek (2024)

How do the brain and hormones influence behavior? How do animals navigate and communicate with each other? How does behavior develop under the influence of genes and the environment? Why do animals sometimes compete and at other times cooperate? How do they choose partners and raise their young? How has the brain and social behavior evolved over time? How does our understanding of behavior help protect both wild and domestic animals or model human behavioral disorders? Ethology, the science of animal behavior, answers these questions. The new textbook Ethology explains behavior on four levels: at the level of mechanisms (how behavior is controlled by the interplay of external stimuli and the internal state of the animal), at the level of ontogeny (how it is shaped by the interaction between genotype and acquired experiences), at the level of function (how behavior helps animals survive and pass on their genes to offspring), and at the level of evolution (how behavior changes in animals belonging to different phylogenetic branches). The book is supplemented by a section on the history of ethology and applied ethology and includes comprehensive chapters that present behavior holistically in selected groups of animals: cockroaches, naked mole-rats, cuckoos, spiders, bats, and humans.