Bekoff

Animal Play

Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives
Herausgeber: Beckoff, Marc; Bekoff, Marc

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why do animals play? Play has been described in animals as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, so what benefits does it provide and how did it evolve? Careful, quantitative studies of social, locomotor and object play behavior are now beginning to answer these questions and shed light on many other aspects of both animal and human behavior. This unique interdisciplinary volume brings together the major findings about play in a wide range of species including humans. Topics about play include the evolutionary history of play, play structure, function and development, and sex and individual differences. Animal Play is destined to become the benchmark volume in this subject for many years to come, and will provide a source of inspiration and understanding for students and researchers in behavioral biology, neurobiology, psychology and anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521586566
• ISBN-10: 0521586569
• Artikelnr.: 20963250

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The evolutionary origins of play revisited: lessons
from turtles G. M. Burghardt; 3. Play in common ravens (Corvus corax) B.
Heinrich and R. Smolker; 4. Object play by adult animals B. Heinrich and R.
Smolker; 5. Kangaroos at play: play behaviour in the Macropodoidea D. M.
Watson; 6. Intentional communication and social play: how and why animals
negotiate and agree to play M. Bekoff and C. Allen; 7. The
structure-function interface in the analysis of play fighting S. M. Pellis
and V. C. Pellis; 8. Sparring as play in young pronghorn males M. N. Miller
and J. A. Byers; 9. Squirrel monkey playfighting: making the case for a
cognitive training hypothesis M. Biben; 10. Self assessment in juvenile
play K. V. Thompson; 11. Biological effects of locomotor play: getting into
shape, or something more specific? J. A. Byers; 12. Neurobiological
substrates of play behaviour: glimpses into the structure and function of
mammalian playfulness S. M. Siviy; 13. Play as an organizing principle:
clinical evidence and personal observations S. Brown.