“Up-to-date, highly integrative, and richly illustrated. It thus merits serious consideration by anyone looking for a textbook to support undergraduate offerings in animal behavior or behavioral ecology. . . . Principles of Animal Behavior is comprehensive and readable, summarizing not only what is well documented but more importantly where integrated understanding is lacking, and thus where further research will prove most profitable.”

Animal Behaviour, on the first edition

“The book reveals a richly illustrated panoramic view of animal behavior and, where it can, it also provides examples of the physiological, neurobiological, and molecular genetic mechanisms that may underlie it. . . . Dugatkin’s text . . . can be enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in the beauty of animal behavior. . . . Excellent.”

Times Higher Education, on the second edition

"Dugatkin offers a highly readable overview of the modern field of animal behavior, keeping up with the exponential growth over the last few decades. Instead of the usual choice between inborn and learned behavior, this book offers the reader with a fully integrated view."

Frans de Waal, Emory University | on the third edition

"This is an up-to-date text that shows not only how theory and empirical data are combined, but how they are derived on the ground."

Bernd Heinrich, University of Vermont | on the third edition