I retired from the animal behaviour business a couple of
years ago, but I, too struggled to find a textbook. I never
did find anything entirely to my taste, but I did quite like
John Pearce's "Introduction to animal cognition," which I
used along with various notes of my own. Here are a
couple of web addresses about the book:
http://www.psypress.co.uk/bkfiles/0863774334.html
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/psypress/bkfiles/0863774342.htm
-David
Pollak, Edward wrote:
> ... I've reviewed the following animal behavior texts and find all of them to
> be inadequate on one or several dimensions... Siiter ...Goodenough, et al.
> ... Maier ... Alcock ...
>
> Are there ANY other animal behavior texts out there?
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David G. Likely, Department of Psychology,
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N. B., E3B 5A3 Canada
History of Psychology:
http://www.unb.ca/web/psychology/likely/psyc4053.htm
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