Animal Behaviour Field Notes: Read Wildlife. Anticipate the Moment.

Animal Behaviour Field Notes is the complete behavioural science reference built specifically for wildlife photographers. Across 46 in-depth sections spanning zoology, ethology, ecology, and conservation, this guide gives you the knowledge to stop reacting to wildlife moments and start anticipating them.

Learn to decode body language, tail signals, alarm call cascades, displacement behaviour, and micro-movements that precede action - so you're already in position, already composing the frame, before the animal moves. Move through the science of how behaviour works, how it's driven, and how it's communicated, then apply it directly to photographic decisions in the field.

Includes predator ecology, social hierarchy, mating systems, parental care, circadian activity wheels, species ethograms for lion and cheetah, a stress index, skull morphology guides, and a full prediction framework - plus field-ready reference appendices you can take into the bush.

This is not a photography techniques manual. It's the guide that changes how you see.

Whether you photograph in the Masai Mara, Kruger, Botswana, or anywhere wildlife roams wild, Animal Behaviour Field Notes is the reference serious photographers reach for when they want the science behind the story.

46 sections · 152 pages · Covers: Body Language · Social Structure · Predator Ecology · Mating & Parental Behaviour · Conservation · Applied Photography