Advances in the Study of Behavior (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Naguib, Marc

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 51, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field. Users will find new information on a variety of species, including The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion, Conformity and over-imitation: an integrative review of two forms of hyper-reliance on social learning, Copulatory behavior and genital morphology in vertebrates, Sexual selection in polyandrous societies: Lessons from the fowl, Sensory information in social insects, Evolution of female coloration, what have we learned from birds in general and blue tits in particular, Sexual selection and social behavior in spiders, and more.

• Serves 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 related fields

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128171257
• Artikelnr.: 56126129

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. The troublesome gift: the spermatophylax as a purveyor of sexual conflict and coercion in crickets Scott Sakaluk 2. Conformity and over-imitation: an integrative review of two forms of hyper-reliance on social learning Andrew Whiten 3. Sexual selection in polyandrous societies: Lessons from the fowl Tom Pizzari 4. Cowbird cognition: The mental abilities of a brood parasite David White 5. Sexual selection and social behavior in spiders Maydianne Andrade