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1 online resource (xxi, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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The animal behavior series ; v. 1 |
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Animal behavior series ; v. 1.
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| Summary |
"This book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work--the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. My interest in the peculiarities of behavior which the creatures exhibited, as I watched them casually from day to day, soon became experiment-impelling, and almost before I realized it, I was in the midst of an investigation of their senses and intelligence. The longer I observed and experimented with them, the more numerous became the problems which the dancers presented to me for solution. From a study of the senses of hearing and sight I was led to investigate, in turn, the various forms of activity of which the mice are capable; the ways in which they learn to react adaptively to new or novel situations; the facility with which they acquire habits; the duration of habits; the roles of the various senses in the acquisition and performance of certain habitual acts; the efficiency of different methods of training; and the inheritance of racial and individually acquired forms of behavior. The purposes which I have had in mind as I planned and wrote the book are three: first, to present directly, clearly, and briefly the results of my investigation; second, to give as complete an account of the dancing mouse as a thorough study of the literature on the animal and long-continued observation on my own part should make possible; third, to provide a supplementary text-book on mammalian behavior and on methods of studying animal behavior for use in connection with courses in Comparative Psychology, Comparative Physiology, and Animal Behavior"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
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"The Cartwright prize of the Alumni association of the College of physicians and surgeons, Columbia university, was awarded, in 1907, for an essaywhich comprised the first twelve chapters of this volume." |
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"Literature on the dancing mouse": pages xix-xxi |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xix-xxi) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Medical Heritage Library |
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Dancing mice.
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Animal behavior.
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Behavior, Animal
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Animal behavior
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Dancing mice
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book.
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Electronic book
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