Author: Alcock, John
Title: The Kookaburras' Song: Exploring Animal Behavior in Australia
Description: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x,218 pp. Textual drawing illustration. Minor rubbing. Light side page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: On Adaptation: The Kookaburras' Song; Selection & the Silver Gull; Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos Meet Dr. Pangloss; New Holland Honeyeaters & Adaptive Math; Nuptial Puzzles: The Unromantic Diet of Northern Logrunners; Paternal Paragons Among the Mallee Fowl: Cupboard Love & Thynnine Wasps; Mate Choice by Female Hangingflies: Machismo & the Competitive Male: Spotted Bowerbirds: Master Salesmen; Singing in the Rain:The Superb Lyrebird; Resin Wasps: Lions of the Insect World; Water Wasps Down by the Waterhole; Primitive or Degenerate? Cassowaries: Primitive, Not Degenerate; The Bad Rap on Marsupials; Duck-Billed Platypus: Not a Relict, Not a Reject; The Once & Future Possum? Weaving Their Way Through History: The Green Weaver Ants of Queensland; Fairy Penguins: Running a Gauntlet Together; A Society of Muttonbirds; Flying Fox Mothers Know Best; Bell Miners, Lerps & Kinship...

Keywords: Australian Zoology, Australia, Animal Behavior, Behaviour, Ethology, Adaptation, Zoology, Biology, Evolution