Exploring animal behavior : readings from American scientist /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sunderland, Mass. :
Sinauer Associates,
[2001]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Doing science
- Scientists, scholars, knaves, and fools
- Integrity in science
- Conduct, misconduct and the structure of science
- The science of scientific writing
- Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy
- Primate social behavior in a changing world
- Pt. II. The mechanisms of behavior
- Why male ground squirrels disperse
- From society to genes with the honey bee
- Animal thinking
- What do animals think about numbers?
- Mozart's starling
- Testosterone and agression in birds
- Physiology of helping in Florida scrub-jays
- Shaping brain sexuality
- Aerial defense tactics of flying insects
- Pt. III. The evolutionary history of behavior
- The evolution of communal nest-weaving in ants
- Stingless-bee communication
- Why do bowerbirds build bowers?
- Early canid domestication : the farm-fox experiment
- Protecting ourselves from food
- Pt. IV. The adaptive value of reproductive behavior
- The evolution of sexual differences in insects
- Animal genitalia and female choice
- Mechanisms of sperm competition in birds
- Prairie-vole partnerships
- Mating behavior and hermaphroditism in coral reef fishes
- Avian siblicide
- The strategies of human mating
- Pt. V. The adaptive value of social behavior
- Animal contests as evolutionary games
- Why ravens share
- Making decisions in the family : an evolutionary perspective
- Naked mole-rats
- The honey bee colony as a superorganism
- The essence of royalty : honey bee queen pheromone.