Advances in the Study of Behavior (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

• Initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior
• Makes another important contribution to the development of the field
• Presents theoretical ideas and research to those studying animal behavior and to their colleagues in neighboring fields

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128003169
• Artikelnr.: 43851462

Autorenporträt

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 publi

shed > 80 scientific publications and has been Editor for Advances in the Study of Behaviour since 2003. Since 2014 he is Executive Editor.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Human Sperm Competition: Playing a Defensive Strategy
2. Magnetoreception in Mammals
3. Aggressive Signaling in Song Sparrows and Other Songbirds
4. Pattern in Behavior: The Characterization, Origins and Evolution of Behavior Patterns
5. Sexual Conflict in Nonhuman Primates
6. Vocal Complexity in Meerkats and Other Mongoose Species
7. The Behavioral and Physiological Ecology of Adult Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerina, Calopterygidae, Odonata)
8. The Study of Career Decisions: Oystercatchers as Social Prisoners