Nerve cells & animal behaviour
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge New York :
Cambridge University Press ,
2010
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Organisation of animal behaviour and of brains : feeding in star-nose moles and courtship in fruit flies
- 2. Signals in nerve cells : reflexes in mammals and insects
- 3. Neuronal mechanisms for releasing behaviour : predator and prey - toad and cockroach
- 4. Neuronal pathways for behaviour : startle behaviours and giant neurons in crayfish and fish
- 5. Eyes and vision : sensory filtering and course control in insects
- 6. Sensory maps : hunting by owls and bats
- 7. Programmes for movement : how nervous systems generate and control rhythmic movements
- 8. Changes in nerve cells and behaviour : learning in bees and rats ; swarming in locusts
- 9. Nerve cells and animal signalling : songs of crickets, electric fish and birds.