The Behaviour of the Domestic CatCABI, 2012 - 251 páginas Describing feline behavior from both a mechanistic and functional approach, this textbook provides an accessible overview of this fascinating subject. The book begins by addressing physiological, developmental and psychological aspects, with chapters on domestication, the development of the senses, learning, communication and feeding behavior. The authors then build on this foundation to discuss social behavior, hunting and predation, cat-human interactions and welfare. Fully updated throughout, this new edition also includes two new chapters on behavioral disorders due to pathologies and from misdirected natural behavior. It is the essential source of cat behavior information. |
Índice
Domestication and Biology | 1 |
2 Sensory Abilities | 16 |
3 Mechanisms of Behaviour | 41 |
4 Behavioural Development | 63 |
5 Communication | 91 |
6 Feeding Behaviour | 113 |
7 Hunting and Predation | 128 |
8 Social Behaviour | 142 |
9 The CatHuman Relationship | 161 |
10 Cat Welfare | 175 |
11 Undesired Behaviour in the Domestic Cat | 190 |
12 Physiological and Pathological Causes of Behavioural Change | 206 |
References | 217 |
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