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Autore: | Price Edward O |
Titolo: | Animal domestication and behavior / / Edward O. Price |
Pubblicazione: | Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub., c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 636.08/2 |
Soggetto topico: | Domestication |
Animal behavior | |
Domestic animals | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-282). |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Why Study Domestication?; Chapter 2 Domestication Defined; Chapter 3 Approaches to the Study of Domestication; Chapter 4 Pre-adaptations for Domestication; Chapter 5 Inbreeding; Chapter 6 Genetic Drift; Chapter 7 Artificial Selection; Chapter 8 Natural Selection in Captivity; Chapter 9 Relaxation of Natural Selection; Chapter 10 Genetic Variability and Behavior; Chapter 11 Morphological and Physiological Traits; Chapter 12 Feeding and Drinking; Chapter 13 Predation, Infectious Diseases and Parasites; Chapter 14 Interactions with Humans |
Chapter 15 Social Environment; Chapter 16 Climate and Shelter; Chapter 17 Use of Space; Chapter 18 Behavioral Development in Captive Animals; Chapter 19 Reintroductions and Feralization; Chapter 20 Welfare and Ethics; References; Subject Index; Species Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Synthesizes the knowledge of the process of domestication and how it has affected the behaviour of captive wild and domesticated animals. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Animal domestication and behavior |
ISBN: | 1-280-82983-4 |
9786610829835 | |
0-85199-772-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812537303321 |
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