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In this way, Ackerman gives us a front row seat on the excitement of behavioral research, and insights into the ways in which the quirky personalities of bird behavior researchers are reflected in their science. Birdsong is repeatedly compared to language, cognitively complex birds are compared to five-year-old human children, and the stealthy sex habits of Arabian babblers are compared to human predilection for sexual privacy. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings From American Scientist," Fifth Edition, edited Paul W. Sherman and John Alcock.

Reviews the book 'Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness,' by Donald R. Griffin.

The authors explain the importance of understanding the identification algorithms and the necessity of using site-appropriate training data for the algorithm. The critical importance of understanding the function of detection and triggering systems, and the effects of the recording environments on these systems is discussed comprehensively and in detail. Ever with an eye on integrity, Runkel et al. propose methods for reviewing the validity of automatically processed data to detect potential errors. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach," Ninth Edition, by John Alcock.

The article reviews the book "Collective Animal Behavior," by David J. T. Sumpter.

The article reviews the book "Observing Animal Behaviour: Design and Analysis of Quantitative Data," by Marian Stamp Dawkins.

Reviews the book "Hormones and Animal Social Behavior," by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan.

In the early 1990s, I was conducting field research on chimpanzee behavior in Jane Goodall's famed research site, Gombe National Park in Tanzania. With Nishida and his personal tracker in the lead, several Japanese researchers, each with a machete-wielding tracker to cut through thickets, followed a party of chimpanzees. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings From American Scientist,' Third Edition, edited by Paul W. Sherman and John Alcock.

The article reviews the book "An Introduction to Animal Behavior: An Integrative Approach," by Michael J. Ryan and Walter Wilczynski.

The article reviews the book "Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviour," by Martha Holmes, Michael Gunton, Rupert Barrington, Adam Chapman, Patrick Morris and Ted Oakes.

The article reviews the book "Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Second Generation," edited by Lee Drickamer and Donald Dewsbury.

The article reviews the book "Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals," by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce.

The article reviews the book "Coding and Redundancy: Man-Made and Animal-Evolved Signals," by Jack P. Hailman.

The article reviews the book "Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture," by Mike Hansell.

Reviews the book "Neural Networks and Animal Behavior," by Magnus Enquist and Stefano Ghirlanda.

Reviews the book "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach," Eighth Edition, by John Alcock.

Reviews the book 'Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach,' Seventh Edition, by John Alcock.

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The article reviews the book "Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals," by Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup and Benjamin B. Beck, foreword by Gordon M. Burghardt.

The article reviews the book "The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society," by Frans de Waal.

Reviews the book "Headless Males Make Great Lovers & Other Unusual Natural Histories," by Marty Crump, illustrated by Alan Crump.

Reviews the book 'Perspectives in Ethology,' Volume 13, edited by Francois Tonneau and Nicholas S. Thompson.