Exploring animal behavior : readings from American scientist
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Exploring animal behavior : readings from American scientist
Sinauer Associates, c2010
5th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This anthology contains 38 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. The richly illustrated articles provide a picture of how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, as well as insights into the behaviour of selected vertebrate and invertebrate species.
Table of Contents
- PART I: DOING SCIENCE Scientists, Scholars, Knaves, and Fools
- E.O.Wilson Conduct, Misconduct, and the Structure of Science
- J.Woodward & D.Goodstein The Science of Scientific Writing
- G.D.Gopen & J.A.Swan Infanticide as a Primate Reproductive Strategy
- S.Blaffer Hrdy PART II: THE MECHANISMS OF BEHAVIOR Why Male Ground Squirrels Disperse
- K.E.Holekamp & P.W.Sherman Bird Song and the Problem of Honest Communication
- W.A.Searcy & S.Nowicki Mozart's Starling
- M.J.West & A.P.King UV Lights up Marine Fish
- J.P.Zamzow, P.A.Nelson & G.S.Losey Animal Thinking
- D.R.Griffin What Do Animals Think about Numbers?
- M.D.Hauser Testosterone and Aggression in Birds
- J.C.Wingfield, G.F.Ball, A.M.Dufty, Jr., R.E.Hegner & M.Ramenofsky Physiology of Helping in Florida Scrub-Jays
- S.J.Schoech Shaping Brain Sexuality
- A.H.Bass Aerial Defense Tactics of Flying Insects
- M.May PART III: THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF BEHAVIOR The Evolution of Communal Nest-Weaving in Ants
- B.Holldobler & E.O.Wilson Untangling the Evolution of the Web
- W.A.Shear Why Do Bowerbirds Build Bowers?
- G.Borgia Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment
- L.N.Trut Protecting Ourselves from Food
- P.W.Sherman & S.M.Flaxman PART IV: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR The Evolution of Sexual Differences in Insects
- R.Thornhill & D.T.Gwynne Mating Behavior and Hermaphroditism in Coral Reef Fishes
- R.R.Warner Animal Genitalia and Female Choice
- W.G.Eberhard The Lion's Mane
- P.M.West Prairie-Vole Partnerships
- L.L.Getz & C.S.Carter Avian Siblicide
- D.W.Mock, H.Drummond & C.H.Stinson The Strategies of Human Mating
- D.M.Buss PART V: THE ADAPTIVE VALUE OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR Why Ravens Share
- B.Heinrich & J.Marzluff Making Decisions in the Family: An Evolutionary Perspective
- S.T.Emlen, P.H.Wrege & N.J.Demong Naked Mole-Rats
- R.L.Honeycutt Kin Recognition in Animals
- W.G.Holmes & P.W.Sherman Yawning
- R.R.Provine The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual
- R.Sosis The Cognitive Psychology of Belief in the Supernatural
- J.M.Bering PART VI: HONEY BEE BEHAVIOR AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS From Society to Genes with the Honey Bee
- G.E.Robinson Group Decision Making in Honey Bee Swarms
- T.D.Seeley, P.Kirk Visscher & K.M.Passino Evolution for the Good of the Group
- D.Sloan Wilson & E.O.Wilson The Essence of Royalty: Honey Bee Queen Pheromone
- M.L.Winston & K.N.Slessor The Honey Bee Colony as a Superorganism
- T.D.Seeley
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