David McFarland

David McFarland is a scientist specialized in the field of animal behavior and more recently the broadening of this understanding to "artificial ethology" and robotics. He is the author of a number of books, including Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology, and Evolution, and Companion to Animal Behaviour, published by Oxford University Press. He is also the author of the Dictionary of Animal Behaviour, published by Oxford Paperback Reference in 2006. Farland is President of Casa Cantarilla in Lanzarote, Spain.^[1]

Bibliography

• Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior (Oxford University Press, USA, 1982) ISBN 978-0198661207
• Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds Oxford (University Press, USA, 2008) ISBN 978-0199219292
• Animal Behaviour: Psychobiology, Ethology and Evolution (Benjamin Cummings, 1998) ISBN 978-0582327320
• Intelligent Behavior in Animals and Robots (Complex Adaptive Systems) (The MIT Press, 1993) ISBN 978-0262132930 Google Scholar Search, Google books
• Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (Oxford University Press, USA, 2006) ISBN 978-0198607212
• Le comportement animal (French & European Pubns, 1990) ISBN 978-0785978022
• Problems of Animal Behaviour (Longman Scientific & Technical, Wiley (Harlow, Essex, England, New York), 1989) ISBN 0470212098
• Quantitative ethology: The state space approach (Pitman, Boston, 1981) ISBN 0273084178
• Feedback Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour (Academic Press, London, 1971) ISBN 978-0124838505

Notes

1. ^ "A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (Oxford Paperback Reference)". Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780198607212. Retrieved 2009-10-10. 

External links

• Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds by David McFarland - TimesOnline
• Dictionary of Animal Behaviour - Oxford University Press
• David McFarland at LibraryThing
• Decision time for animals / Review of 'Problems of Animal Behaviour' by David McFarland - NewScientist (subscription required)
• Short biography at chapters.indigo.ca
• David McFarland: Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs - The Question of Alien Minds - review by Berel Dov Lerner, Western Galilee College, Israel

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