Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“john hoogland”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john hoogland”
Skip side bar filters

  • Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog

    Saving North America's Western Grasslands

    Edited by John Hoogland ...
    The prairie dog is a colonial, keystone species of the grassland ecosystem of western North America. Myriad animals regularly visit colony-sites to feed on the grass there, to use the burrows for shelter or nesting, or to prey on the prairie dogs. Unfortunately, prairie dogs are disappearing, and the current number is only about 2% of the number encountered by Lewis and Clark in the early 1800s ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Prairie Dogs

    Ecology and Social Behavior

    by John Hoogland ...
    A comprehensive overview of the behavioral ecology of a highly social group of North American mammalsBest known for their large colonies, complex burrows, and frequent alarm calls, prairie dogs are diurnal, herbivorous rodents endemic to the grasslands of western North America. Prairie Dogs synthesizes forty-five consecutive years of John Hoogland’s pioneering field research on the ecology and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

    by Nicholas B. Davies, John R. Krebs, Stuart A. West ...
    This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new chapters and many new illustrations and full colour photographs. The theme, once again, is the influence of natural selection on behaviour – an animal's struggle to survive and reproduce by exploiting and competing for resources, avoiding predators, selecting mates ... Read more

    $75.00 USD

  • Domesticated

    Evolution in a Man-Made World

    by Richard C. Francis ...
    Without domestication, civilization as we know it would not exist.Since that fateful day when the first wolf decided to stay close to human hunters, humans and their various animal companions have thrived far beyond nearly all wild species on earth. Tameness is the key trait in the domestication of cats, dogs, horses, cows, and other mammals, from rats to reindeer. Surprisingly, with selection for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition

    by Lee Alan Dugatkin ...
    Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies presented, but also to reinforce the previous editions’ focus on ultimate and proximate causation, as well as the book’s unique emphasis on natural selection ... Read more

    $84.29 USD

  • Yellowstone Wolves

    Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park

    Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, Daniel R. MacNulty ...
    This beautifully illustrated volume on the Yellowstone Wolf Project includes an introduction by Jane Goodall and an exclusive online documentary.The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park was one of the greatest wildlife conservation achievements of the twentieth century. Eradicated after the park was first established, these iconic carnivores returned in 1995 when the US government ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociobiology

    The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time, Sociobiology is probably more widely known as the object of bitter attacks by social scientists and ... Read more

    $42.69 USD

  • The Cichlid Fishes

    Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution

    by George Barlow ...
    Cichlid fishes are amazing creatures. In terms of sheer number of species, they are the most successful of all families of vertebrate animals, and the extent and speed with which they have evolved in some African lakes has made them the darlings of evolutionary biologists. But what truly captivates biologists like George Barlow -- not to mention thousands of aquarists the world over -- is the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Animal Behavior

    by Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore ...
    Animal Behavior, Second Edition, covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors to this textbook, much of that teaching animal behavior. An entire chapter is devoted to the vibrant new field of behavior and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Animal Behavior

    by Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore ...
    Animal Behavior covers the broad sweep of animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation. The authors, Michael D. Breed and Janice Moore, bring almost 60 years of combined experience as university professors to this textbook, much of that teaching animal behavior. An entire chapter is devoted to the vibrant new field of behavior and conservation, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

    by Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore ...
    The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Three Volume Set has engaged with great success the efforts of many of the best behavioral biologists of the 21st century. Section editors drawn from the most accomplished behavioral scientists of their generation have enrolled an international cast of highly respected thinkers and writers all of whom have taken great care and joy in illuminating every ... Read more

    $1,023.29 USD

  • Developmental Plasticity and Evolution

    by Mary Jane West-Eberhard ...
    The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems ... Read more

    $115.19 USD