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Spider behaviour : flexibility and versatility /
"Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Spider biology / Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall
- Flexibility in the foraging strategies of spiders / Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson
- Spider webs : evolution, diversity and plasticity / Marie E. Herberstein and I-Min Tso
- Flexible use of anti-predator defences / Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson
- Communication / Gabriele Uhl and Damian O. Elias
- Deceptive signals in spiders / Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall
- Mating behaviour and sexual selection / Jutta Schneider and Maydianne Andrade
- Group living in spiders : cooperative breeding and coloniality / Trine Bilde and Yael Lubin
- Plasticity, learning and cognition / Elizabeth Jakob, Christa Skow and Skye Long
- Kleptoparasitic spiders of the subfamily Argyrodinae : a special case of behavioural plasticity / Mary Whitehouse.