Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior

This review is written with the assistance of Hazel Guha, student, Royal Veterinary College, (or, to be honest, written in spite of delays caused by her). In fact both my apology to the editor for the delay in delivering this review and the summary review itself could be: if you lend this book to anyone with a strong interest in the behaviour of animals you are certain to have a great deal of difficulty in getting it back.

While it is true that, throughout human history, people have been interested in observations of animal behaviour, the interest has been primarily...