Cover Image

Behavior and evolution of birds readings from Scientific American magazine

Show other versions (1)

Featuring 12 articles drawn from "Scientific American", this collection reflects the contribution of studies in behaviour and ecology to our understanding of birds. The collection also indicates how important new techniques from such disciplines as molecular biology and neurobiology have b...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mock, Douglas W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York W.H. Freeman 1991
Subjects:
Birds > behavior
Birds > evolution
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Learning by instinct / James L. Gould and Peter Marler
  • Internal rhythms in bird migration / Eberhard Gwinner
  • Memory in food- hoarding birds / Sara J. Shettleworth
  • From bird song to neurogenesis / Fernando Nottebohn
  • The hearing of the barn owl / Eric I. Knudsen
  • Sexual selection in bowerbirds / Gerald Borgia
  • The birds of paradise / Bruce M. Beehler
  • Cooperative breeding in the acorn woodpecker / Peter B. Stacey and Walter D. Koenig
  • The cooperative breeding behavior of the green woodhoopoe / J. David Ligon and Sandra H. Ligon
  • Reconstructing bird phylogeny by comparing DNA's / Charles G. Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist
  • The kiwi / William A. Calder III
  • Archaeopteryx / Peter Wellnhofer.

Similar Items