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Advances in the Study of Behavior
1st Edition, Volume 38 - August 19, 2008
Editors: H. Jane Brockmann, Timothy J. Roper, Marc Naguib, Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, Chris Barnard, John Mitani
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780120045389
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eBook ISBN:9780080915494
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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 theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields. Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online from volume 30 onward.
Graduate students and researchers who study animal behavior (ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, neurobiologists, developmental psychobiologists, ethologists, comparative psychologists).
Contributors to Volume 38
Preface
Chapter 1: Using Robots to Understand Animal Behavior
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Behavior and the Physical Interface
III Completing the Mechanism Description
IV Toward the Complete Cricket
V Conclusions
Chapter 2: Social Foraging and the Study of Exploitative Behavior
Publisher Summary
Dedication
I Why Study Foraging?
II The Advent of Social Foraging Theory
III The PS Game
IV Rate-Maximizing PS Model
V Stochastic, Risk-Sensitive Models
VI State-Dependent Dynamic PS Game
VII PS Information Games
VIII Projecting Down to Individual Behavior
IX Implications for Population Effects
X Relevance of PS Games for Non-Food Resources
XI Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 3: Social Processes Influencing Learning in Animals: A Review of the Evidence
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Classification of Processes Involved in Social Learning
III Empirical Evidence for Social Learning Processes
IV Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 4: Function and Mechanisms of Song Learning in Song Sparrows*
Publisher Summary
Dedication
I Introduction
II Studies of Social Factors in Song Learning
III Developing Theories of Song Learning
IV Song Function and Song Learning in Song Sparrows
V Discussion
VI Summary
Acknowledgments
Chapter 5: Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II A Brief History of the Idea
III Clarifying the Definition of a Behavioral Syndrome
IV Understanding Variation in Behavioral Syndromes
V Beyond the Usual Behavioral Syndromes
VI Future Prospects
VII Summary
Acknowledgments
Chapter 6: Information Warfare and Parent–Offspring Conflict
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Parent–Offspring Conflict as a Selective Force in Nature
III Information from Offspring to Parents
IV Interactions Among Siblings
V Information from Parents to Offspring
VI Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 7: Hormones in Avian Eggs: Physiology, Ecology and Behavior
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Physiology
III Effects of Yolk Androgens
IV Variation Within Clutches
V Differences Between Females
VI Comparative Studies
VII A Mechanism for Sex-Ratio Adjustment?
VIII Egg Cocktails
IX Conclusions and Future Directions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 8: Neurobiology of Maternal Behavior in Sheep
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Expression of Maternal Behavior in Sheep
III Neurobiology of Maternal Responsiveness
IV Neurobiology of Maternal Selectivity
V Conclusion
Chapter 9: Individual Odors and Social Communication: Individual Recognition, Kin Recognition, and Scent Over-Marking
Publisher Summary
I Introduction
II Individual Discrimination and Recognition
III Discrimination and Recognition of Kin
IV Individual Advertisement and Competition by Scent Marking
V Scent Over-Marking
Index
Contents of Previous Volumes
No. of pages: 552
Language: English
Edition: 1
Volume: 38
Published: August 19, 2008
Imprint: Academic Press
Hardback ISBN: 9780120045389
eBook ISBN: 9780080915494
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H. Jane Brockmann
Jane Brockmann is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests are in the evolution of alternative strategies and tactics, sexual selection and the economics and mechanisms of decision making in animals; since 1990 her research has focused on the behavior of horseshoe crabs. She has authored more than 70 journal articles and book chapters; co-edited two books; and supervised 30 graduate students. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1976) and was an NSF Post-doctoral Fellow with the Animal Behavior Research Group at Oxford, UK (1977-78) studying the behavior of a solitary, sphecid wasp. She has held the position of Professor since 1989 (emeritus since 2011) and was chair of her department from 1997-2001. She has been Program Director for Animal Behavior at the National Science Foundation (2003-4); president of the Animal Behavior Society (1991-1992); Secretary General of the International Ethological Conference (1995-2006); and journal editor for Evolution (1987-1990), Ethology (1991-2001) and Advances in the Study of Behavior (2002-present; Executive Editor, 2005-2013).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Timothy J. Roper
Tim Roper is Emeritus Professor of Animal Behaviour at the University of Sussex, UK. After completing a PhD in Experimental Psychology (Cambridge 1973) he undertook postdoctoral research at the Universities of Oregon and Cambridge. He was appointed Lecturer in Biology at the University of Sussex in 1979, Reader in 1993 and Professor in 1998. He was Honorary Secretary of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (1982-87) and has served on the editorial boards of various journals, including Advances in the Study of Behaviour (1996-2014) and Animal Behaviour (as European Editor, 1991-96). He has also been appointed to a number of UK government advisory committees, including periods as Special Scientific Advisor to the House of Commons Agriculture Select Committee (1999-2000) and as advisor to the UK Government Chief Scientific Officer (2008). He has published 120 scientific papers on various aspects of animal behaviour and ecology, including animal learning, the evolution of insect warning coloration, the social and territorial behaviour of mammals, the transmission of bovine tuberculosis between badgers and cattle, the use of remotely collected DNA in estimating population size, urban wildlife management, and communal decision making in animals. He has co-authored a number of government reports and has authored one book (Badger, Harper Collins, 2010). He retired from the University of Sussex in 2010 and now works as a full-time house husband.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
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Marc Naguib
Marc Naguib is professor in Behavioural Ecology at the Animal Sciences Department of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He studied biology at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and received his PhD (1995) at UNC Chapel Hill, NC in the US. After his PhD held positions at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (1995-1999) and Bielefeld University (2000-2007) in Germany, and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (2008-2011), until he was appointed in 2011 as Chair of the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is specialized in vocal communication, social behaviour, animal personality and the effects of conditions experienced during early development on behaviour and life history traits, mainly using song birds as model. His research group is also involved in animal welfare research using farm animals. He has served for many years on the council of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) and of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. He published > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Animal Sciences Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards
Affiliations and expertise
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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Chris Barnard
Affiliations and expertise
The University of Nottingham, University Park, U.K.
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John Mitani
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
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