Ebook Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field (2/E): Part 1

Part 1 book "Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field" includes content: A question of behaviors - how to design, test, and use an ethogram; consistency in data collection - creating operational definitions; observation and inference in observing human and nonhuman behavior; a matter of time - comparing observation methods; who is taking whom for a walk,.... and other contents.

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Ebook Exploring animal behavior in laboratory and field (2/E): Part 1 Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field Second Edition Edited by Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo Department of Life and Earth Sciences Perimeter College at Georgia State University Decatur, GA, United States Susan W. Margulis Department of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Department of Biology Canisius College Buffalo, NY, United States Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 125 London Wall, London EC2Y 5AS, United Kingdom 525 B Street, Suite 1650, San Diego, CA 92101, United States 50 Hampshire Street, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, United Kingdom Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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Contents Contributors.......................................................................................... xxi Preface ................................................................................................xxv PART 1 Describing behavior CHAPTER 1 A question of behaviors: how to design, test, and use an ethogram............................................. 3 Olivia S.B. Spagnuolo, Darren C. Incorvaia, Elizabeth Tinsley Johnson and Eila K. Roberts Part I. Student instructions ................................................ 4 Learning goals, objectives, and key concepts...................4 Background ...............................................................4 Purpose.....................................................................7 Methods....................................................................7 Step-by-step instructions ..............................................8 Results/discussion..................................................... 11 Paper instructions ..................................................... 13 Conclusions ............................................................. 14 References............................................................... 14 Part II. Instructor notes ................................................... 15 Classroom management/blocks of analysis.................... 15 Teaching the activity ................................................. 15 Part III. Supplemental material......................................... 17 CHAPTER 2 Consistency in data collection: creating operational definitions .........................................19 Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo Part I. Student instructions .............................................. 20 Learning goals, objectives, and key c ...