Methodology and techniques for the study of animal societies
By: by J.P. Scott ... [et al.] ; consulting editor, J.P. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, John Paul, 1909-
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 51, art. 6
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1122
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Social behavior in animals.
Notes: Cover title.

"This series of papers is the result of a conference on Methodology and techniques for the study of animal societies, held jointly by the Section of Biology of the New York Academy of Sciences and the New York Zoological Society on November 12 and 13, 1948." -- P. [1001].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: General plans and methodology for field studies of the naturalistic behavior of animals -- by C.R. Carpenter.; value: The social behavior of dogs and wolves: an illustration of sociobiological systematics -- by J.P. Scott.; value: The relationship between observation and experimentation in the field study of behavior -- by T.C. Schneirla.; value: Measurement of some physiological reactions to Arctic conditions -- by Laurence Irving.; value: Instruments for the measurement of physiological reactions of unstrained animals -- by J.L. Fuller.; value: Effects of nutrition and diseases on experimental animals -- by Leonard J. Goss.; value: A study of the phylogenetic or comparative behavior of three species of grouse -- by John W. Scott.; value: Social life and the individual among vertebrate animals -- by N.E. Collias.; value: The isolation of factors of learning and native behavior in field and laboratory studies -- by Bernard F. Riess.; value: Techniques for observing bird behavior under natural conditions -- by John T. Emlen.; value: The study of wild animals in controlled conditions-- by John B. Calhoun.