Qu'est-ce que l'éthologie ?

Des site web, des journaux et des indications de livres pour comprendre ce qu'est l'éthologie. Et aussi des sites pour vous aider à améliorer votre anglais et votre niveau en statistiques, y compris dans l'utilisation de "R".

Websites discussing what ethology is:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/animal-behavior-13228230
(an educational site by the prestigious scientific journal Nature)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethology
(a general description, making reference especially to “classical” ethology)

Scientific journals publishing papers in ethology:
(only “open access” papers will be downloadable)

Animal Behaviour: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/animal-behaviour

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/behavioural/journal/265

Behavioral Ecology: https://academic.oup.com/beheco

Books in animal behavior:

N. Tinbergen. 1984. Curious Naturalists. University of Massachusetts Press.
Even if old (publication date 1958), this book was written by one of the founders of the study of Animal Behaviour and a Noble Prize is an enjoyable reading and contains examples of the study of animal behavior (see: https://archive.org/details/Niko-Tinbergen-Curious-Naturalists/page/n15)

A. Manning and M. Stamp Dawkins. 2012. An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. 6^th Edition. Cambridge University Press. (a classical textbook)

L.A. Dugatkin. 2019. Principles of animal behavior. 3^rd Edition. University of Chicago Press. (an interesting, and recently updated, overview on the study of animal behavior)

Other readings in behavior and evolutionary biology:

F. de Waal. 2007. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes. MD: JHU Press. (an easy reading on chimpanzee behavior by one of the most famous animal behavior scientist working on primates)

S. Lavorel, J.-D. Lebreton, Y. Le Maho 2017. Les mécanismes d’adaptation de la biodiversité aux changements climatiques et leurs limites (https://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/rapport/rads_270617.pdf)

P. Brakes et al. 2019. Animal cultures matter for conservation. Science 363: 1032-1034 (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6431/1032)

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