Edited by Johan J. Bolhuis and Luc-Alain Giraldeau Blackwell Publishing (2004) 536 pp. ISBN 0631231250 $69.95/£24.99(pbk)
The Behaviour of Animals: Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution is designed to give a broad overview of the current status of animal behaviour studies (or, as Robert Hinde puts it in his foreword, `the growing points in animal behaviour at the start of the 21st century';p. xvi), for use on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in, among other subjects, biology,psychology and neuroscience. In their preface, the editors justify producing another textbook on animal behaviour (and an edited volume at that) on two,related grounds. In the first place, the discipline of animal behaviour is a rapidly developing one, and an effective textbook should incorporate new sub-disciplines as well as covering established ones. Secondly, since the discipline is now very broad (`the science of animal behaviour has become a victim of its own success'; p. xvii), the editors...
