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Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives
- Title
- Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives / edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers.
- Publication
- Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 274 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Play behavior in animals
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The evolutionary origins of play revisited : lessons from turtles / Gordon M. Burghardt -- Play in common ravens (Corvus corax) / Bernard Heinrich & Rachel Smolker -- Object play by adult animals / Sarah L. Hall -- Kangaroos at play : play behaviour in the Macropodoidea / Duncan M. Watson -- Intentional communication and social play : how and why animals negotiate and agree to play / Marc Bekoff & Colin Allen -- Structure-function interface in the analysis of play fighting / Sergio M. Pellis & Vivien C. Pellis -- Sparring as play in young pronghorn males / Michelle N. Miller & John A. Byers --Squirrel monkey play fighting : making the case for a cognitive training function for play / Maxeen Biben -- Self assessment in juvenile play / Katerina V. Thompson -- Biological effects of locomotor play : getting into shape, or something more specific? / John A. Byers -- Neurobiological substrates of play behavior : glimpses into the structure and function of mammalian playfulness / Stephen M. Siviy -- Play as an organizing principle : clinical evidence and personal observations / Stuart Brown.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-11375
- ISBN
- 0521583837 (hardbound)
- 0521586569 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 97022056
- OCLC
- 37011320
- Title
- Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives / edited by Marc Bekoff and John A. Byers.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bekoff, Marc.Byers, John A. (John Alexander), 1948-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-11375