Animal Domestication and Behaviour

• Written by a world authority on animal behavioura highly original contribution to the subject

• Covers behavior and domestication of farm, zoo and companion animals

This book synthesizes existing knowledge of the process of domestication and how it has affected the behavior of captive wild and domesticated animals. Three broad themes are addressed: genetic contributions to the process of domestication, experimental contributions to the process of domestication, the process of feralization (i.e. the adaptation of domesticated animals when returned to their natural habitat)