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Advances in the study of behavior Volume 46 /
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by presenting theoretic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Advances in the study of behavior
v. 46 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Advances in the Study of Behavior; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Reference; Chapter One: Human Sperm Competition: Playing a Defensive Strategy; 1. Introduction; 2. Adaptations to Sperm Competition in Nonhuman Animals; 2.1. Defensive Adaptations; 2.1.1. Mate Guarding; 2.1.2. Copulatory Plugs; 2.1.3. Antiaphrodisiac Substances and Seminal Fluids; 2.2. Offensive Adaptations; 2.2.1. In-Pair Copulations; 2.2.2. Testes Size, Sperm Quantity, and Sperm Quality; 2.2.3. Strategic Ejaculate Adjustment to Sperm-Competition Cues; 2.2.4. Male Genital Morphology.
- 2.2.5. Sperm Morphology2.3. Cryptic Female Choice; 3. Has Sperm Competition Acted as a Selective Pressure in Human Evolution?; 3.1. Defensive Sperm-Competition Strategies in Humans; 3.1.1. Anticipating Female Infidelity; 3.1.2. Preventing Female Infidelity; 3.2. Offensive Sperm-Competition Strategies in Humans; 3.2.1. In-Pair Copulations; 3.2.2. Copulatory Behavior and Genital Morphology; 3.2.3. Testes Size and Ejaculate Production; 3.2.4. Sperm Morphology; 3.2.5. Strategic Ejaculation in Response to Sperm-Competition Cues.
- 3.2.6. The Importance of Lifestyle Factors in Studies of Semen Quality3.3. Cryptic Female Choice in Humans; 4. Conclusions and Directions for Future Research; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Two: Magnetoreception in Mammals; 1. Biological Significance of Magnetoreception; 2. How to Study Magnetoreception and Its Function in Mammals? Experimental Paradigms and Interpretation of Findings; 2.1. Homing; 2.1.1. Homing in Rodents; 2.1.2. Bats Use a Sun-Calibrated Magnetic Compass; 2.1.3. Magnetoreception in Cetaceans; 2.2. Conditioning; 2.3. Induced Analgesia in Mice.
- 2.4. Resting Places in Rodents and Bats2.4.1. Nest-Building Preferences in Rodents; 2.4.2. Roosting Preferences in Bats; 2.5. Magnetic Alignment; 2.5.1. North-South Oriented Herding of Cattle; 2.5.2. Magnetic Alignment of Deer; 2.5.3. Mousing Behavior of the Red Fox; 2.5.4. Dogs Sense Small Changes in the Rate of Declination; 3. Mechanisms of Magnetoreception in Mammals; 3.1. Magnetite; 3.2. Chemical Magnetoreception; 3.3. Electromagnetic Induction; 4. Do We (Humans) Sense the Magnetic Field?; 5. The Impact of Anthropogenic Magnetic Noise on Mammals; Acknowledgments; References.
- Chapter Three: Aggressive Signaling in Song Sparrows and Other Songbirds1. Introduction; 2. Natural History of Song Sparrows; 2.1. Territoriality and Mating System; 2.2. Song; 2.3. Song Learning; 3. Functions of Song; 4. Agonistic Displays of Song Sparrows; 4.1. Background; 4.2. Song Rate; 4.3. Switching Frequency; 4.4. Soft Songs and Wing Waves; 4.5. Song-Type Matching; 5. Dear-Enemy Relations; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Four: Pattern in Behavior: The Characterization, Origins, and Evolution of Behavior Patterns; 1. Introduction.