Animal behaviour

Ce livre est tout à la fois une biographie des animaux et un voyage autour du monde, en compagnie d'un naturaliste qui comprend la physionomie des animaux et qui se plaît à raconter ses impressions, ses souvenirs de voyages et à fixer l'état de la science.

Naturalistic accounts of anthropoid behaviour have long emphasized social relations. Among the reports of such responses there is emphasized with surprising frequency differential behaviour towards the opposite sex.

Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current thinking and practice in the care and management of wild mammals in zoos and other institutions.

The Amboseli Elephants is the long-awaited summation of what’s been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP)—the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world. Cynthia J. Moss and Harvey Croze, the founders of the AERP, and Phyllis C.

As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and create regional, national, and global conservation and management communities.