Key Questions in Animal Behaviour and Welfare (eBook)

A Study and Revision Guide

Paul Rees (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
256 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
9781789248999 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which animal behaviour and welfare is an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced.

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An understanding of animal behaviour and welfare is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology, zoology, animal welfare, animal behaviour, psychology and zoo biology.

This book is intended as a study and revision guide for students following programmes of study in which animal behaviour and welfare are an important component. It contains 600 multiple-choice questions (and answers) set at three levels - foundation, intermediate and advanced - and grouped into 10 major topic areas:

1. Foundations and history of animal behaviour and welfare
2. Basic concepts and mechanisms in behaviour
3. Biological basis of behaviour
4. Learning, memory and training
5. Territoriality, navigation and migration
6 Animal cognition and communication
7. Behavioural ecology and social behaviour
8. Measuring, recording and analysing animal behaviour and welfare
9. Animal exploitation and welfare
10 Animal rights, ethics and law


The book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place. It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in the study of animal behaviour and welfare, methods of recording behaviour and assessing welfare, the physiology of behaviour, learning, memory, cognition, behavioural ecology, animal rights and much more. Many of the questions require students to use their knowledge to interpret information provided in the form of graphs, data or photographs.

Rezensionen

As the blurb states, it is aimed at students and could be a very good study/revision guide. It covers a range of commonly covered (indeed essential) topics on animal behaviour and welfare and comprises three levels of question difficulty.

While it is all multiple choice questions, there is the opportunity to look up the correct answers in the back, which importantly gives additional detail and rationale to that being the correct answer. Thus, integrating feedback and indeed additional knowledge acquisition.

Overall, I think this is a very useful book of thought-provoking questions and explanations, helping students and academics alike. The questions are a culmination of a lot of pedagogic enterprise, which is now available for others to use. Well done Paul Rees and thank you for sharing.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Key Questions
• Reihe/Serie: Key Questions
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: animal behavior • animal behaviour • Animal welfare • Ethology • MCQs • Multiple Choice Questions • student revision guide • Study guide • Zoology
• ISBN-13: 9781789248999 / 9781789248999