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The Domestic cat : the biology of its behaviour

Title
The Domestic cat : the biology of its behaviour / edited by Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Turner, Dennis C., 1948-
  • Bateson, P. P. G. (Paul Patrick Gordon), 1938-2017.
  • Cats '86 (1986 : University of Zürich-Irchel)
Description
x, 222 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Subject
  • Cats > Behavior
  • Cats > Social aspects
  • Animal behavior
  • Cats
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Cats
  • Social Behavior
  • Felis domesticus (species)
  • Animal behavior
  • Katten
  • Chat domestique > Moeurs et comportement > Congrès
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Congress
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Based on a symposium Cat's '86, held at the University of Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland, Sept. 1-3. 1986.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 202-215.
Contents
Why the cat? / Dennis C. Turner and Patrick Bateson -- Behavioural development in the cat / Paul Martin and Patrick Bateson -- Factors influencing the mother-kitten relationship / John M. Deag, Aubrey Manning and Candace E. Lawrence -- Individuality in the domestic cat / Michael Mendl and Robert Harcourt -- The tame and the wild -- another Just-so story? / Paul Leyhausen -- Cat society and the consequences of colony size / G. Kerby and D.W. Macdonald -- Spatial organisation and reproductive tactics in the domestic cat and other felids / Olof Liberg and Mikael Sandell -- The mating system of feral cats living in a group / Eugenia Natoli and Emanuele De Vito -- Hunting behaviour of the domestic cat / Dennis C. Turner and Othmar Meister -- Diet of domestic cats and their impact on prey populations / B.M. Fitzgerald -- The domestication and history of the cat / James A. Serpell -- The human-cat relationship / Eileen B. Karsh and Dennis C. Turner -- Practical aspects of research on cats / Claudia Mertens and Rosemarie Schar -- Questions about cats / Patrick Bateson and Dennis C. Turner.
ISBN
  • 0521354471
  • 9780521354479
  • 0521357276
  • 9780521357272
LCCN
88007346
OCLC
  • ocm17678604
  • 17678604
  • SCSB-1736410
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library