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Advances in the Study of Behavior.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Saint Louis :
Elsevier Science,
2017.
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| Colección: | Advances in the study of behavior.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Dedication; Contributors; Preface; Chapter One. Why Is Social Behavior Rare in Reptiles? Lessons From Sleepy Lizards; 1. Introduction; 2. Sociality in Reptiles; 3. The Biology of Sleepy Lizards; 4. Monogamy; 5. Social Networks; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusions; Chapter Two. Behavioral Evidence of Felt Emotions: Approaches, Inferences, and Refinements; 1. Introduction; 2. What Is a Felt Emotion?; 3. Spontaneous Responses to Stimuli; 4. Changes in Response Following a Drug Treatment; 5. Motivational Testing; 6. Epistemological Issues.
- Chapter Three. Developmental Plasticity: Preparing for Life in a Complex World1. Introduction; 2. Approaches to the Study of Developmental Plasticity; 3. When Should Information Be Sampled and When Does It Take Effect?; 4. Integration of Environmental Information; 5. Parent-Offspring Conflict; 6. Fitness; 7. Added Value From Adding Complexity?; Chapter Four. Covetable Corpses and Plastic Beetles-The Socioecological Behavior of Burying Beetles; 1. Introduction; 2. Burying Beetles Behavior and Ecology; 3. What Socioecological Problems Do Burying Beetles Face?; 4. Body Size Matters.
- 5. Sex Roles in Parental Care and the Coevolution of Mating and Parental Care Behaviors6. Sex Differences in the Plasticity of Behavior and Sexual Selection; 7. Summary and Future Directions; Chapter Five. Mechanisms of Communication and Cognition in Chickadees: Explaining Nature in the Lab and Field; 1. Introduction: Combining the Fields of Comparative Cognition and Behavioral Ecology; 2. Natural History of Chickadees; 3. Chickadee Acoustic Communication; 4. Production and Perception of Chickadee Vocalizations: Investigating Communication Using Complementary Techniques.
- 5. Summary of Conclusions and Future DirectionsChapter Six. Behavioral Adaptations to Invasive Species: Benefits, Costs, and Mechanisms of Change; 1. Introduction; 2. Types of Pressures Imposed by Invaders and Behavioral Responses; 3. Ecological Significance of Behavioral Adaptations-Benefits and Costs; 4. Selective Pressures Vary Across Life Stages; 5. Mechanisms of Behavioral Change; 6. Effects of Behavioral Adaptations on Other Traits; 7. Conclusion; Chapter Seven. Scramble Competition Polygyny in Terrestrial Arthropods; 1. Introduction; 2. Mating Systems of Terrestrial Invertebrates.
- 3. Scramble Competition in Terrestrial Invertebrates4. How Does Female Ecology Influence Scramble Competition?; 5. Male Traits Associated With Scramble Competition; 6. Scramble Competition as an Alternative to Defense; 7. Exploitation of Scrambling Males by Deceptive Predators, Parasitoids, and Plants; 8. The Dangers of Scrambling Toward Cannibalistic Females; 9. Conclusions; Supplementary data; Chapter Eight. Communication in Animal Social Networks: A Missing Link?; 1. Introduction; 2. A Brief Overview of Animal Networks; 3. How Signaling Reflects Social Networks.