Social behavior in farm animals /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Domestic animals > Behavior.; Social behavior in animals.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Behaviour.; Animal Welfare.; Cattle.; Fishes.; Fowls.; Horses.; Pigs.; Sheep.; Animal welfare.; Behaviour.; Domestic animals.; Farm management.; Group behaviour.; Parental behaviour.; Poultry.; Social behaviour.; Electronic books.
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The book is about social behaviour in farm animals (cattle, pigs, domestic birds, sheep, horses and fish). Part I of the book deals with the concepts of social behaviour, Part II concentrates on species-specific animal behaviour, and part III tackles the contemporary topics in social behaviour.

Table of Contents:

• Living in Groups : an Evolutionary Perspective / Michael Mendl and Suzanne Held
• Group Life / A. Cecilia Lindberg
• Parental Behaviour / Per Jensen
• The Evolution and Domestication of Social Behaviour / W. Ray Stricklin
• The Social Behaviour of Cattle / Marie-France Bouissou, Alain Boissy, Pierre Le Neindre and Isabelle Veissier
• The Social Behaviour of Pigs / Harold W. Gonyou
• The Social Behaviour of Domestic Birds / Joy Mench and Linda Keeling
• The Social Behaviour of Sheep / Andrew Fisher and Lindsay Matthews
• The Social Behaviour of Horses / Natalie K. Waran
• The Social Behaviour of Fish / Eva Brännäs, Anders Alanärä and Carin Magnhagen
• Breaking Social Bonds / Ruth Newberry and Janice Swanson
• Individual Differences and Personality / Hans Erhard and Willem Schouten
• People as Social Actors in the World of Farm Animals / Jeffrey Rushen, Anne Marie de Passillé, Lene Munksgaard and Hajima Tanida
• Social Cognition of Farm Animals / Suzanne T. Millman and Ian J.H. Duncan.