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Author : August Röell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Birds
ISBN : CORNELL:31924022562312
Author : August Röell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004590717
Author : Gerard Meurant
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988-05-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323137850
The chapters in this book discuss and summarize the ecological factors affecting and effecting the formation of animal social groups and thereby address one of the central issues confronting researchers and students in sociobiology. The objectives are to review what is known about the impact of ecological factors in the formation and maintenance of social groups. Numerous examples have been drawn from a variety of phyla.
Author : Nathan Emery,Nicola Clayton,Christopher D. Frith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199216543
Why are humans so clever? The 'Social intelligence' hypothesis explores the idea that this cleverness has evolved through the increasing complexity of social groups. Our ability to understand and control nature is a by-product of our ability to understand the mental states of others and to use this knowledge to co-operate or deceive. These abilities have not emerged out of the blue. They can be found in many social animals that co-operate and compete with one another, birds as well as mammals. This book brings together contributions from an impressive list of authorities in the field, appropriately concluding with a chapter by Nick Humphrey (one of the pioneers in this field). This volume examines social intelligence in many different animal species and explores its development, evolution and the brain systems upon which it depends. Better understanding and further development of social intelligence is critical for the future of the human race and the world that we inhabit. Our problems will not be solved by mere cleverness, but by increased social co-operation.
Author : Donald Farner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323157995
Avian Biology,Volume VIII assesses selected aspects of avian biology. It is generally the conceptual descendant of Marshall's earlier treatise,“Biology and Comparative Physiology of Birds, but is more than simply a revision of it. This volume consists of two relatively lengthy, diverse chapters that focus on adaptive significance of coloniality in birds and fossil records of birds. In particular, this volume looks into group phenomena related to central place systems, that is, systems in which one or more individuals move to and from a centrally located place in the course of daily activities. It also addresses selective factors that have been suggested to explain why individuals should form colonies rather than disperse within the available foraging space. This book will be useful as a reference material for advanced students and instructors in this field of interest.
Author : Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 9780195086225
Despite the depiction of nature "red in tooth and claw," cooperation is actually widespread in the animal kingdom. Various types of cooperative behaviors have been documented in everything from insects to primates, and in every imaginable ecological scenario. Yet why animals cooperate is still a hotly contested question in literature on evolution and animal behavior. This book examines the history surrounding the study of cooperation, and proceeds to examine the conceptual, theoretical and empirical work on this fascinating subject. Early on, it outlines the four different categories of cooperation -- reciprocal altruism, kinship, group-selected cooperation and byproduct mutualism -- and ties these categories together in a single framework called the Cooperator's Dilemma. Hundreds of studies on cooperation in insects, fish, birds and mammals are reviewed. Cooperation in this wide array of taxa includes, but is not limited to, cooperative hunting, anti-predator behavior, foraging, sexual coalitions, grooming, helpers-at-the nest, territoriality, 'policing' behavior and group thermoregulation. Each example outlined is tied back to the theoretical framework developed early on, whenever the data allows. Future experiments designed to further elucidate a particular type of cooperation are provided throughout the book.
Author : John Archer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0389209961
Evaluates the results of several decades of ethological work on developmental psychology. It looks at human development from the context of the natural world, thereby re-establishing the links, begun with Charles Darwin, between research on child development and animal behaviour.
Author : D.M. Power
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475799125
This is the only English-language publication devoted exclusively to extensive reviews and synthesis of topics on the biology of birds. The current volume includes articles on sibling competition, predation and the limitation of bird numbers, and population trends in birds of eastern North America.
Author : Jens Krause,Graeme D. Ruxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198508182
Shoals, swarms, flocks, herds--group formation is a widespread phenomenon in animal populations. It raises several interesting questions for behavioral ecologists. Why do animals form and live in groups, and what factors influence the ways in which they do this? What are the costs and benefits to an animal of group living? How are these influenced by ecological factors? The authors familiarize the reader with cutting-edge ideas on the ecology and evolution of group-living animals, and detail fascinating case studies demonstrating them in action.
Author : Reuven Dukas,John M. Ratcliffe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226169378
Merging evolutionary ecology and cognitive science, cognitive ecology investigates how animal interactions with natural habitats shape cognitive systems, and how constraints on nervous systems limit or bias animal behavior. Research in cognitive ecology has expanded rapidly in the past decade, and this second volume builds on the foundations laid out in the first, published in 1998. Cognitive Ecology II integrates numerous scientific disciplines to analyze the ecology and evolution of animal cognition. The contributors cover the mechanisms, ecology, and evolution of learning and memory, including detailed analyses of bee neurobiology, bird song, and spatial learning. They also explore decision making, with mechanistic analyses of reproductive behavior in voles, escape hatching by frog embryos, and predation in the auditory domain of bats and eared insects. Finally, they consider social cognition, focusing on alarm calls and the factors determining social learning strategies of corvids, fish, and mammals. With cognitive ecology ascending to its rightful place in behavioral and evolutionary research, this volume captures the promise that has been realized in the past decade and looks forward to new research prospects.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015025089494
Author : Donald S. Farner,James R. King,Kenneth C. Parkes
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781483269450
Avian Biology, Volume VI is a compendium of papers that deals with selected aspects of avian biology. One paper discusses the avian mating behavior and covers topics such as monogamy, polygyny, male incubation, and female emancipation; these papers also list a table of the species of birds in which polyandry has been observed. Another paper examines bird migration in relation to the mechanism and development of migration with emphasis on the evolution and function (ultimate causation) of migration. Another paper discusses the advantages of one form of social organization of birds during the non-reproductive season over another form. This paper reasons the possibility of the existence of a cost-benefit social behavior. Other papers discuss some physical features found in birds such as stomach oils and glycogen-filled cells. Another paper deals with the respiratory physiology of birds as new research data have been made available in this area. This book can prove useful for investigators in avian biology, zoologists, and readers who have a general interest in birds.
Author : W. Geoffrey Arnott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134556267
Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies. The ancient Greek bird names are transliterated into English script, and all that the ancients said about birds is presented in English. This book is accordingly the first complete discussion of ancient bird names that will be accessible to readers without ancient Greek. The only large-scale examination of ancient birds for seventy years, the book has an exhaustive bibliography (partly classical scholarship and partly ornithological) to encourage further study, and provides students and ornithologists with the definitive study of ancient birds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : UFL:31262042911916