Because the weather was too hot some time ago. I heard that the British Library has air conditioning. So I got a library card at the British Library and looked for references in it to support my research.

This is a great opportunity to find some books on animal behavior or cat behavior. As these relate to the biology part, they are very foreign to me. I need to refer and find more information.

I took pictures of the parts I needed and put them in this blog. Below is my borrowing list.

John Alcock, Animal behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, [2019]

This is the first book I have borrowed, because it is in the British Library, so I got it on the same day.

This book is a very good book on ethology. But unfortunately, it’s not very useful to me.

This book describes the entire study of animal behavior in detail, starting with Darwin’s origin of species, and lists many animal behaviors later. Such as animal sociality, communication, breed, migration, etc. The animals involved range from mammalian monkeys, wolves, and birds, to fish, bees and more.

It is because this book is too detailed for the study of the whole animal behavior. So there are few parts that I can use. But there is no denying that this book is a very good book.

Next up are two books about Ragdolls.

These two books are very detailed about the origin of this breed of Ragdolls, as well as detailed information on appearance characteristics, hair color, etc., which are very useful to me.

Since I have Ragdolls, I found a very good cat rig on the Internet, but I need to make his own fur for him. So I need to know a lot about the appearance and hair characteristics of Ragdoll cats. These two books solved my problem perfectly.

Denise Jones, Ragdoll cat. Dorking: Interpet, c2001.

Karen Leigh Davis, Ragdoll cats : everything about purchase, nutrition, health care, grooming, behavior, and showingRagdoll cats : everything about purchase, nutrition, health care, grooming, behavior, and showing. Hauppauge, NY : Barron’s, c1999.

with full-color photographs ; illustrations by Tana Hakanson Monsalve.

Next, I want to find a few books about cat behavior, but I am not very lucky, and the books I found are not very useful. And these two books are so old that they don’t even have covers.

Carole C. Wilbourn, The inner cat : a new approach to cat behavior. New York : Stein and Day, 1978.

This book is not very useful for my project.

This book is more about some stories of the author and his cat living at home, so the book has little academic value. More of an essay than a book devoted to cat behavior. I was deceived by the title of this book. Although very interesting.

Paul Leyhaysen, Cat Behavior : The Predatory and Social Behavior of Domestic and Wild Cats. N.Y. : Garland STPM Pr., 1979.

When I read this book, it was very late, so I didn’t have enough time to finish the book.

Much of this book is devoted to the hunting behavior of cats. So I thought, if this book was discovered and read while I was working on my last project, it would be very appropriate.