Book-recommendation: Ethology I am looking for a book that covers the following topics in ethology: * **Behaviour** * Sensory filtering, reponsive-ness, sign stimuli, learning and memory, instinct, habituation, conditioning, imprinting. * **Role of hormones in drive** * role of pheromones in alarm spreading; crypsis, predator detection, predator tactics, social hierarchies in primates, social organization in insects. * **Navigation and Biological Rythms** * Orientation, navigation, homing, biological rhythms, biological clock, tidal, seasonal and circadian rhythms. * **Methodology** * Methods for studying animal behaviour including sexual conflict, selfishness, kinship and altruism. Do you have any suggestions?

I can suggest three books, none of them cover all those aspects, though:

1) The Foundations of Ethology, Konrad Lorenz. The best introduction I know for the field of ethology. Lorenz is called by some "the father of ethology".

2) Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Edward Wilson. The deepest study of animal societies I know of.

3) Evolutionary Ecology, Eric Pianka. If my memory is right, it says something about the Navigation and Biological Rythms part.