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Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

A book intended for psychologists and ethologists working on animal behaviour, psychopharmacologists and neurobiologists interested in the simple nervous system and advanced undergraduates in animal behaviour courses. This series aims to serve the increasing number of scientists who are engaged in the study of animal behaviour by presenting theoretical ideas and research to those in this as well as neighbouring fields. Traditional areas of animal behaviour research have achieved new vigour through the links they have formed with related fields and the closer relationship that now exists between those studying animal and human subjects. While the recent rise of behavioural ecology and sociobiology has tended to overshadow other areas, scientists studying behaviour today have a broader background, from ecologists and evolutionary biologists to geneticists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, neurobiologists, and developmental psychobiologists, not to mention the ethologists and comparative psychologists for whom this subject is prime domain. The series does not focus narrowly on one or a few of these fields, but features articles covering the best behavioural work from a wide spectrum, as is well-illustrated by the range of articles in this volume. The skill and concepts of scientists in such diverse fields necessarily differ, making the task of developing co-operation, and communication among them a difficult one. But it is one that is of great importance, and one to which the editors and publisher of "Advances in the Study of Behaviour" are committed. (view table of contents)

The aim of Advances in the Study of Behavior is to serve scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior, including psychologists, neuroscientists, biologists, ethologists, pharmacologists, endocrinologists, ecologists, and geneticists. Articles in the series present critical reviews of significant research programs with theoretical syntheses, reformulation of persistent problems, and/or highlighting new and exciting research concepts. Volume 35 is an eclectic volume that includes the mechanisms and evolution of arthropod and anuran communal sexual displays, a functional analysis of feeding, the sexual behavior and breeding system of tufted capuchin monkeys, acoustic communication in noise, ethics and behavioral biology, prenatal sensory ecology and experience, conflict and cooperation in chimpanzees, and the tradeoffs in the adaptive use of social and asocial learning.