Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour
Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour

Author: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards

Publisher: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13:

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An outline of the principles of animal dispersion. The integration of social groups by visible signals. Dispersion in the breeding season: birds. Display characters and natural selection. Fourther consideration of castes in animal societies. Timing and synchronisation. Vertical migration of the plankton. Fluctuations, irruptions and emigrations. Recruitment through reproduction. Socially-induced mortality. Deferment of growth and maturity.

The Evolution of Social Behaviour
The Evolution of Social Behaviour

Author: Michael Taborsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1107011183

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First book to outline the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours.

Animal Social Networks
Animal Social Networks

Author: Dr. Jens Krause

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0199679045

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The scientific study of networks - computer, social, and biological - has received an enormous amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the field of animal behaviour relatively late compared to many other biological disciplines. Understanding social network structure is of great importance for biologists since the structural characteristics of any network will affect its constituent members and influence a range of diverse behaviours. These include finding and choosing a sexual partner, developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, and engaging in foraging and anti-predator behavior. This novel text provides an overview of the insights that network analysis has provided into major biological processes, and how it has enhanced our understanding of the social organisation of several important taxonomic groups. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing both an overview of the power of the network approach for understanding patterns and process in animal populations, as well as outlining how current methodological constraints and challenges can be overcome. Animal Social Networks is principally aimed at graduate level students and researchers in the fields of ecology, zoology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology but will also be of interest to social scientists.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates
Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Author: Samuel Wasser

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0323151426

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Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates focuses on the evolution of reproductive behavior in female vertebrates ranging from fish to birds and humans, including issues of mate choice and other factors underlying female attitudes toward males. It also looks at the evolution of mating systems; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive competition between females; maternal behavior; and how females enhance the investment received by their offspring from others. It also considers other social behaviors that influence the nature of affiliative associations between females. Organized into three parts encompassing 13 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of behavioral biology and sources of variation in female reproductive success. It then discusses the establishment and maintenance of sex biases, sex differences mediated by sexual selection, constraints on female choice in the mottled sculpin, mate choice by females in sexual selection of bird song, and female manipulation of male avoidance of cuckoldry behavior in the ring dove. The reader is also introduced to the evolution of polyandry in shorebirds; reproductive strategies in human females; social and health-seeking behaviors of Taiwanese women; female roles in cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers; altruism in coati bands; cooperation and reproductive competition among female African elephants; mate choice in matrilineal macaque groups; and reproductive competition and cooperation among female yellow baboons. This book is a valuable resource for scientists and behavioral biologists, as well as lay people whose interests span a variety of fields.

Social Behavior and Communication
Social Behavior and Communication

Author: P. Marler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1461591163

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Other books in this series focus on behavior at the individual level, approached from the viewpoints of biochemistry, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. In this volume we show how the functioning nervous systems of interacting individuals are coordinated, with the ultimate creation of complex social structures. The intri cacies of an individual's nervous system have been subject to intense inquiry, and research at the chemical, cellular, and organ levels has made remarkable progress. Work at the social level has been conducted somewhat independently, by way of behavioral phenomena and communicative interactions. With the emergence of a large body of information from neurobiology, the beginnings of an integrated approach are possible. New data on social functions are presented in the chapters to follow, and the forward-looking reader may wish to reflect on how they clarify understanding of interactions between two or more independent nervous systems. The outcome is harmonious social structure and improvement in the inclusive fitness of group-living individuals. We believe that there is in prospect a new way of looking at social function that will ultimately increase our understanding of the highest and most complex levels of neurobiology. The modern approach to the study of social behavior involves more than the recording of interactions between animals. Each individual brings to the process of social interaction the implications of its prior genetic and experiential history.

Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues
Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

Author: Marc Bekoff

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2005-11-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781592133499

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An engaging, thoughtful look at the science and ethics of research into animal behavior.

Primate Paradigms
Primate Paradigms

Author: Linda Marie Fedigan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1992-06

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780226239484

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This critical review of behavior patterns in nonhuman primates is an excellent study of the importance of female roles in different social groups and their significance in the evolution of human social life. "A book that properly illuminates in rich detail not only developmental and socioecological aspects of primate behavior but also how and why certain questions are asked. In addition, the book frequently focuses on insufficiently answered questions, especially those concerned with the evolution of primate sex differences. Fedigan's book is unique . . . because it places primate adaptations and our explanation of those patterns in a larger intellectual framework that is easily and appropriately connected to many lines of research in different fields (sociology, psychology, anthropology, neurobiology, endocrinology, and biology)—and not in inconsequential ways, either."—James McKenna, American Journal of Primatology "This is the feminist critique of theories of primate and human evolution."—John H. Cook, Nature