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Parental Care: Evolution, Mechanisms, And Adaptive Significance
- 1st Edition, Volume 25 - September 24, 1996
- Editors: Peter J.B. Slater, Manfred Milinski
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 8 2 8 6 - 3
Advances in the Study of Behavior presents its first thematic volume, focusing on the physiological and behavioral mechanisms underlying parental care. The book discusses parent… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in the Study of Behavior presents its first thematic volume, focusing on the physiological and behavioral mechanisms underlying parental care. The book discusses parental care both within and across taxa, with coverage of invertebrates and early vertebrates, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, mammals, birds, and nonhuman primates. A running theme throughout the chapters shows that parental care is anchored to the ecology, reproductive physiology, and embryonic development of a species. Coverage also includes mechanisms of parental care, including analysis of the stimuli that parents respond to and how parental care is initiated, maintained, and terminated. Individual differences within species are also explored, examining stable differences in maternal style, how they arise, and the consequences for both mother and infant.
Experimental psychologists studying animal behavior, comparative psychologists, zoologists, ethologists, and evolutionary biologists.
S.T. Trumbo, Parental Care in Invertebrates. S.S. Crawford and E.K. Balon, Cause and Effect of Parental Care in Fishes: An Epigenetic Perspective. M.L. Crump, Parental Care among the Amphibia. C. Gans, An Overview of Parental Care among the Reptilia. J.D. Buntin, Neural and Hormonal Control of Parental Behavior in Birds. R.S. Bridges, Biochemical Basis of Parental Behavior in the Rat. J.M. Stern, Somatosensation and Maternal Care in Norway Rats. A.S. Fleming, H.D. Morgan, and C. Walsh, Experiential Factors in Postpartum Regulation of Maternal Care. G. Gonzalez-Mariscal and J.S. Rosenblatt, Maternal Behavior in Rabbits: A Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspective. Z. Wang and T.R. Insel, Parental Behavior in Voles. F. Livy, K.M. Kendrick, E.B. Keverne, R.H. Porter, and A. Romeyer, Physiological, Sensory, and Experiential Factors of Parental Care in Sheep. C.R. Pryce, Socialization, Hormones, and the Regulation of Maternal Behavior in Nonhuman Simian Primates. P.A. Gowaty, Field Studies of Parental Care in Birds: New Data Focus Questions on Variation among Females. F. Trillmich, Parental Investment in Pinnipeds. L.A. Fairbanks, IndividualDifferences in Maternal Style: Causes and Consequences for Mothers and Offspring. D. Maestripieri and J. Call, Mother–Infant Communication in Primates. C.T. Snowdon, Infant Care in Cooperatively Breeding Species. Chapter References. Subject Index. Contents of Previous Volumes.
- No. of pages: 715
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 25
- Published: September 24, 1996
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080582863
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Peter J.B. Slater
Dr. Peter Slater is a Kennedy Professor of Natural History at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. He is a former Editor of the journal Animal Behaviour and past President of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. He received the Association's medal in 1999. His research interests are in vocal communication, with emphasis on the development and organization of song in birds.
Affiliations and expertise
University of St. Andrews, Fife, U.K.MM
Manfred Milinski
Affiliations and expertise
Zoologisches Institut, Abteilung Verhalten-sokologie, Universitat Bern, Hinterkappelen, SwitzerlandRead Parental Care: Evolution, Mechanisms, And Adaptive Significance on ScienceDirect