The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour & Welfare
Editor/Author: Editor: Mills, D.S.Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 978-0-85199-724-7
Category: science
Image Count: 128
Book Status: Available
The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia aims to promote the understanding and improvement of animalsâ behaviour without compromising welfare.
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Other encyclopedias deal with animal behavior: the three-volume Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, ed. by Marc Bekoff (CH, Sep'05, 43-0033), and a new one of the same title, from Elsevier, edited by Michael Breed and Janice Moore, in press at the time this review was written. The one thing they all seem to have in common is a high price: 274.17 for Mills, 270.65 for Bekoff, and 506.15 (tentative price) for the one edited by Breed and Moore, which means that individuals are unlikely to purchase these volumes. One distinguishing feature is that the Mills volume is oriented toward applied behavior and animal welfare; the others are more general. This new encyclopedia has 190 contributors, and all entries have authors' initials. No breakdown indicates which authors wrote the most entries. Contributors include a number of well-known names in the field, e.g., Temple Grandin. The entries vary from two or three sentences to a page or more. No comprehensive bibliography is offered, but relevant citations follow many entries. The book contains a small number of black-and-white photos, though the choices seem strange, e.g., a horse's vagina, a stallion's penis, and a homosexual cow. Also included are a small number of more conventional black-and-white diagrams. The entries are well written and cross-referenced. Rereading the story of Clever Hans, the counting German horse, was enjoyable, as was discovering that the editors included information on one of this reviewer's favorite groups, the Cephalopoda. The volume concludes with separate species and subject indexes. It will be somewhat useful for university libraries, particularly those associated with land-grant institutions.
L. T. Spencer
Plymouth State University
