Book Review: Responses of Invertebrates

Abstract

Here is a useful summary of a large volume of literature on some responses of invertebrates to experimental stimulation. It is not, therefore, a textbook of behaviour, which is a larger subject including spontaneous activities, memory and central control mechanisms. There are chapters on the responses to stimulation in each of the main sensory modalities, including humidity changes and the contact chemical sense, in addition to those more familiar from our own experience. The final chapter, on whole patterns of behaviour, is disappointing, since the behaviourist approach and that of the neurologist are both excluded, leaving an account of the reactions to combined stimuli. Show more