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Animal behavior

Alcock, J. Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach. Sinauer, 1997. Classic text covering the principles of animal behavior.

Benyus, Janine M. The Secret Language and Remarkable Behavior of Animals. Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998. Accessible, clearly written meditation by zookeeper Benyus on the behavior and communication traits of species she has observed firsthand.

Dugatkin, Lee. Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees. Simon & Schuster, Harvard University Press, 1999. 2000. An evolutionary biologist on cooperation among animals.

Gould, James L., and Carol Grant Gould. The Animal Mind. Freeman, 1994, 1999. How animals respond to their environment.

Yoerg, Sonja I. Clever as a Fox: Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves. Bloomsbury, 2001. An ethologist's lively insights into animal intelligence, with plenty of examples and personal anecdotes.

Animal migration

Croze, Harvey, and Carlo Mari. The Serengeti's Great Migration. Abbeville, 2000. One of the world's most dramatic migrations, caught in 160 photographs.

Dingle, Hugh. Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move. Oxford University Press, 1996. Technical text on animal migration. It is divided into four parts: methods for study, physical and biological factors, life histories, and applications and implications. For advanced readers.

Elphick, Jonathan, ed. The Atlas of Bird Migration: Tracing the Great Journeys of the World's Birds. Random House, 1998. Well-illustrated reference for the general audience.

Pope, Joyce. Animal Journeys. Troll, 1993. A discussion how and why animals migrate, the preparations they make for their journeys, and how they find their ways. For younger readers.

Simon, Seymour. Ride the Wind: Airborne Journeys of Animals and Plants. Harcourt Brace, 1997. For younger readers.

Simon, Seymour. They Swim the Seas: The Mystery of Animal Migration. Harcourt Brace, 1998. This book introduces marine migrations, from zooplankton to whales. For younger to middle school readers.

Weidensaul, Scott. Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds. North Point Press, 2000. Excellent overview of bird migration and environmental issues tied to it.

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