Why do animals play? Play has been described in animals as diverse as reptiles, birds and mammals, so what benefits does it provide and how did it evolve? Careful, quantitative studies of social, locomotor and object play behavior are now beginning to answer these questions and shed light on many other aspects of both animal and human behavior. This unique interdisciplinary volume brings together the major findings about play in a wide range of species including humans. Topics about play include the evolutionary history of play, play structure, function and development, and sex and individual differences. Animal Play is destined to become the benchmark volume in this subject for many years to come, and will provide a source of inspiration and understanding for students and researchers in behavioral biology, neurobiology, psychology and anthropology.
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"This volume is not only interdisciplinary but also manages to be instructively comparative in a broad sense....This breadth and the accompanying list of references assure great usefulness for this volume. An enjoyable and affordable compendium." Choice
"Readers interested in play behavior (and behavior in general) will find this book a worthwhile read." American Scientist
This interdisciplinary volume brings together the major findings about play in a wide range of species including humans." Animal Cognition
"Readers interested in play behavior (and behavior in general) will find this book a worthwhile read." American Scientist
This interdisciplinary volume brings together the major findings about play in a wide range of species including humans." Animal Cognition
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Why do animals play? Play has been described in many different species from reptiles to humans and can give insights into the development and evolution of other behaviours. This unique interdisciplinary volume examines human and animal play in a broad range of contexts. Animal Play is destined to become the benchmark volume in this subject for many years to come, and will provide a source of inspiration and understanding for students and researchers in behavioural biology, neurobiology, psychology and anthropology.
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great review on play,
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This review is from: Animal Play: Evolutionary, Comparative and Ecological Perspectives (Paperback)
Very good approach to play behaviour. Lots of information on ontogeny, proximate mechanisms and function of different types of play behaviour over a wide range of animals, including humans. Would suit psychologists, anthropologists, zoologists, neurologists and behaviourists in general, undergraduates or academics. Fluid enough as review but plenty of information on more detailed subjects.
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The origins of vertebrate play are obscure, but more understanding of these origins would aid greatly in clarifying and evaluating hypotheses about play (Bekoff & Byers 1981; Burghardt 1984, 1998). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritualised fights, precocious courtship, solitary locomotor play, play partner preferences, avian play, motor training hypothesis, rufogriseus banksianus, nonavian reptiles, adult courtship, reptile play, animal play behavior, play fighting, play bouts, sensitive period hypothesis, emydid turtles, juvenile rats, wrestling play, muroid rodents, practice hypothesis, eastern grey kangaroos, social play, precocious sexual behavior, critical reanalysis, play behaviour, object play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The origins of vertebrate play are obscure, but more understanding of these origins would aid greatly in clarifying and evaluating hypotheses about play (Bekoff & Byers 1981; Burghardt 1984, 1998). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritualised fights, precocious courtship, solitary locomotor play, play partner preferences, avian play, motor training hypothesis, rufogriseus banksianus, nonavian reptiles, adult courtship, reptile play, animal play behavior, play fighting, play bouts, sensitive period hypothesis, emydid turtles, juvenile rats, wrestling play, muroid rodents, practice hypothesis, eastern grey kangaroos, social play, precocious sexual behavior, critical reanalysis, play behaviour, object play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Chipping Norton, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, New South Wales, Plenum Press, Basil Blackwell, University of Chicago Press, Brain Res, Developmental Psychobiology, Van Ree, John Wiley, South American, Tammar Wallabies, The Bielefeld Interdisciplinary Project, Brain Sci, Neural Biol, New England, The Future of Play Theory, Aggressive Behav, Animal Behaviour, Bird Behav, Brain Sei, Columbia University Press New!
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- Animal Play Behavior by Robert M. Fagen on 6 pages
- Play in Animals and Humans by Peter K. Smith on 5 pages
- The Play of Animals by Karl Groos on page 24, page 137, and page 202
- Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Robert W. Mitchell on page 23, and page 25
- Developmental Psychobiology and Behavioral Ecology (Handbooks of Behavioral Neurobiology) (Vol 9) by Elliott M. Blass on page 23, and page 238
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- Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies by Frans B. M. de Waal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Marsupials by Patricia J. Armati in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Animal Rights: A Subject Guide, Bibliography, and Internet Companion by John Kistler on page 39
- About a Body: Working with the Embodied Mind in Psychotherapy by Jenny Corrigall on page 49
- Developing Learning in Early Childhood (Zero to Eight) by Tina Bruce in Back Matter
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