Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field

1. A question of behaviors: how to design, test, and use an ethogram
2. Consistency in data collection: creating operational definitions
3. Observation and inference in observing human and nonhuman behavior
4. A matter of time: comparing observation methods
5. Who is taking whom for a walk? An observational study of dog–human interactions
6. Movement analysis: expanding the resolution of analysis in animal behavior
7. The evolution of behavior: a phylogenetic approach
8. Examining variability in the song of the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)
9. Learning to be winners and losers: agonistic behavior in crayfish
10. Love is blind: investigating the perceptual world of a courting parasitoid
11. Are squirrels and ants smart shoppers? How foraging choices may meet current and future needs
12. Predators strike and prey counterstrike
13. The circle game: intergenerational transmission and modification of solutions to a universal need
14. Demonstrating strategies for solving the prisoner's dilemma
15. Using empirical games to teach animal behavior
16. Finding food is fun! Location discrimination training
17. Using natural behavior as a guide for welfare
18. Conservation behavior: effects of light pollution on insects
19. Animal enrichment: creating functional and stimulating enrichment for captive animals. Observing and assessing their use and impact
20. A nonverbal test battery for evaluating physical and social cognition
21. Learning from the primary literature of animal behavior
22. The fine print: process and permissions for behavioral research
23. Writing science for the general public
24. Effective scientific writing
25. Writing and reviewing grant proposals
26. Tools for observational data collection
27. Basic statistics for behavior
28. Citation formats for the sciences

Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field, Second Edition provides a comprehensive manual on animal behavior lab activities. This new edition brings together basic research and methods, presenting applications and problem-solving techniques. It provides all the details to successfully run designed activities while also offering flexibility and ease in setup. The exercises in this volume address animal behavior at all levels, describing behavior, theory, application and communication. Each lab provides details on how to successfully run the activity while also offering flexibility to instructors. This is an important resource for students educators, researchers and practitioners who want to explore and study animal behavior. The field of animal behavior has changed dramatically in the past 15 - 20 years, including a greater use and availability of technology and statistical analysis. In addition, animal behavior has taken on a more applied role in the last decade, with a greater emphasis on conservation and applied behavior, hence the necessity for new resources on the topic. Offers an up-to-date representation of animal behavior Examines ethics and approvals for the study of vertebrate animals Includes contributions from a large field of expertise in the Animal Behavior Society Provides a flexible resource that can be used as a laboratory manual or in a flipped classroom setting