Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives

by Marc Bekoff

Book Overview

Why do animals play? Play has been described in animals as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, so what benefits does it provide and how did it evolve? Careful, quantitative studies of social,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521586569
• ISBN13: 9780521586566
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

great review on play

Very good approach to play behaviour. Lots of information on ontogeny, proximate mechanisms and function of different types of play behaviour over a wide range of animals, including humans. Would suit psychologists, anthropologists, zoologists, neurologists and behaviourists in general, undergraduates or academics. Fluid enough as review but plenty of information on more detailed subjects.