Animal behaviour : evolution and mechanisms /
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Berlin ; London ; New York :
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[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Visual communication : evolution, ecology, and functional mechanisms / H. Martin Schaefer
- Vocal communication in social groups / Claudia Fichtel and Marta Manser
- Kin recognition : an overview of conceptual issues, mechanisms and evolutionary theory / Dustin J. Penn and Joachim G. Frommen
- Honeybee cognition / Mario Pahl, Jürgen Tautz and Shaowu Zhang
- Individual performance in complex social systems : the greylag goose example / Kurt Kotrschal, Isabella B.R. Scheiber and Katharina Hirschenhauser
- Conflict and conflict resolution in social insects / Jürgen Heinze
- Social insects, major evolutionary transitions and multilevel selection / Judith Korb
- Cooperation between unrelated individuals - a game theoretic approach / Redouan Bshary
- Group decision-making in animal societies / Gerald Kerth
- Parental care : adjustments to conflict and cooperation / Fritz Trillmich
- The quantitative study of sexual and natural selection in the wild and in the laboratory / Wolf Blanckenhorn
- Mate choice and reproductive conflict in simultaneous hermaphrodites / Nils Anthes
- Extra-pair behaviour / Bart Kempenaers and Emmi Schlicht
- Extreme polyandry in social Hymenoptera : evolutionary causes and consequences for colony organisation / F. Bernhard Kraus And Robin F.A. Moritz
- Monogynous mating strategies in spiders / Jutta Schneider and Lutz Fromhage
- Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones / Wolfgang Goymann and Heribert Hofer
- The social modulation of behavioural development / Norbert Sachser and Sylvia Kaiser
- Alternative reproductive tactics and life history phenotypes / Michael Taborsky and H. Jane Brockmann
- Animal personality and behavioural syndromes / Ralph Bergmüller
- Social learning and culture in animals / Carel P. van Schaik
- Levels and mechanisms of behavioural variability / Peter M. Kappeler and Cornelia Kraus.