A comprehensive review of behavioural neurosciences in an ecological context, covering both theories and experimental procedures. Special attention is placed on the hippocampus and its relation to spatial learning in different species, such as food-storing birds, homing pigeons, kangaroo rats and laboratory rodents. Various methodological chapters deal with measurements of behavioural events and telemetry, exploiting the perspectives of miniaturization of data loggers. This is embedded in chapters dealing with the history of behavioural brain research, development, brain evolution, and population genetics. Audience: Required reading for any neuroscientist who is aware that there is also a world outside the laboratory.
