The Seventh Edition of Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists is a fully updated revision of this popular, classic text offering a thorough understanding of the normal behavior of domestic animals. Maintaining the foundation of earlier editions, chapters examine key behavior issues ranging from communication to social structure. This edition enhances coverage of behavioral genetics, animal cognition, and learning, considering new knowledge and the very latest information throughout. Each chapter covers a wide variety of farm and companion animals, including dogs, cats, horses, pigs, sheep, cattle, and goats. Major additions are chicken and donkey behavior as well as the microbiome. The cognitive skills of the different species are discussed in the learning chapter. 483 p.

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• Katherine A. Houpt. VMD, PhD, DACVB. Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Medicine at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY (USA).
  
   
• Publication date (digital version): 2024-05.