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• ISBN: 9780313398704
• ISBN: 0313398704
• Physical Description: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Volume 1. History, causation, and development / Ken Yasukawa and Zuleyma Tang-Martínez, editors. This is how we do it : the scientific study of animal behavior / Ken Yasukawa -- In the beginning : a history of animal behavior / Lee C. Drickamer -- Being direct : can pigeons plan ahead? / Brett M. Gibson -- Social learning, tradition, and culture : data and debate / Bennett G. Galef -- Behavioral genetics : beyond nature and nurture / Bronwyn H. Bleakley and Anne Danielson-François -- Neural systems, behavior, and evolution : integrating proximate and ultimate analyses of behavior / Laura Smale -- Hormones and animal behavior / Matthew J. Fuxjager, Sarah Jane Alger, and Catherine A. Marler -- Epigenetics and animal behavior / David Crews -- Behavioral development and ontogenetic adaptation / Jeffrey R. Alberts and Christopher Harshaw -- The individual in context : a social network approach to the study of behavior / David J. White, Andrew P. King, and Meredith J. West -- A time for every purpose : biological clocks and animal behavior / Megan Hastings Hagenauer and Sean P. Bradley -- Getting there : animal orientation, navigation, and migration / James J. Gould.

Volume 2. Function and evolution / Ken Yasukawa, editor. Finding food : foraging affects all aspects of an animal's life / Anna Dornhaus -- Predation and antipredator behavior / Theodore Stankowich -- Animal communication : how and why animals communicate -- or do they? / Zuleyma Tang-Martínez -- Mating systems and the measurement of sexual selection / Kenyon B. Mobley -- The evolution of ornaments and armaments / Geoffrey E. Hill -- Sexual conflict : all's not fair in love -- it's war! / Zenobia Lewis -- A nest of vipers : conflict and cooperation in families / Michelle Pellissier Scott -- Make space enough between you : intraspecific variation in animal spacing / Nancy G. Solomon and Brian Keane -- Let's get together : the evolution of social behavior / Walter D. Koenig and Janis L. Dickinson -- Ecological and evolutionary feedbacks in the evolution of aggression / Renée A. Duckworth -- Altruism and kinship / Lee Alan Dugatkin -- Evolutionary history of behavior / Terry J. Ord.

Volume 3. Integration and application with case studies / Ken Yasukawa, editor. Integrated studies of stickleback behavior / Alison M. Bell -- Friends and enemies : how social dynamics shape communication and song learning in song sparrows / Michael D. Beecher and Çağlar Akçay -- A tale of two spiders : investigating communication in two unique model species using video digitization and playback / George Uetz and David Clark -- Studying lifelong male-male partnerships in a tropical bird / David B. McDonald -- Be loved, be prey, be eaten / Rachel A. Page, Michael J. Ryan, and Ximena E. Bernal -- Siblicide in birds / Douglas W. Mock -- Referential signals : a window into animal minds / Carolynn L. Smith and Christopher S. Evans -- Cotton-top tamarins : research for conservation and understanding human behavior / Charles T. Snowdon -- Avian brood parasitism : how to spot a foreign egg in the nest? / Mark E. Hauber and Jason Low -- How animals remember places and find their way around / David F. Sherry -- Cognitive repertoire, cognitive legacies, and collective reasoning : the next frontiers in conservation behavior / Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C. -- Beauty in the eye of the beholder : potentially adaptive individual differences in human mate preferences / Lisa M. DeBruine, Benedict C. Jones, S. Craig Roberts, Anthony C. Little, and Christopher D. Watkins.

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Animal behavior.