Contents

• Introduction

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• 1 Narwhals and the Dead Man:
  Why Is Behavior So Hard to Define?

• 2 Snakes, Spiders, Bees, and Princesses:
  How Behavior Evolves

• 3 Clean-Minded Bees and Courtship Genes:
  The Inheritance of Behavior

• 4 Raised by Wolves—Would It Really Be So Bad?:
  The First Domestication

• 5 Wild-Mannered:
  The Other Domestics

• 6 The Anxious Invertebrate:
  Animal Mental Illness

• 7 Dancing Cockatoos and Thieving Gulls:
  Bird Brains and the Evolution of Cognition

• 8 A Soft Spot for Hard Creatures:
  Invertebrate Intelligence

• 9 Talking with the Birds and the Bees. And the Monkeys.:
  Animal Language

• 10 The Faithful Coucal:
  Animals, Genes, and Sex Roles

• 11 Protect and Defend:
  Behavior and Disease

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• Acknowledgments

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index