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COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ANIMAL SOCIETIES.
Author : Nancy G. Solomon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1997-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521454913
COOPERATIVE BREEDING AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ANIMAL SOCIETIES.
Author : Walter D. Koenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107043433
Brings together long-term studies of cooperation in vertebrates that challenge our understanding of the evolution of social behavior.
Author : Walter D. Koenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521530996
Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an important challenge in behavioural ecology for over 30 years. This book highlights the theoretical, empirical and technical advances that have taken place in the field of cooperative breeding research since the publication of the seminal work Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long-term Studies of Behavior and Ecology (1990, HB ISBN 0521 372984, PB ISBN 0521 378907). Organized conceptually, special attention is given to ways in which cooperative breeders have proved fertile subjects for testing modern advances to classic evolutionary problems including those of sexual selection, sex-ratio manipulation, life-history evolution, partitioning of reproduction and incest avoidance. It will be of interest to both students and researchers interested in behaviour and ecology.
Author : Tim Clutton-Brock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1119095328
The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.
Author : Jennifer Vonk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319550640
This encyclopedia, representing one of the most multi-disciplinary areas of research, is a comprehensive examination of the key areas in animal cognition and behavior. It will serve as a complementary resource to the handbooks and journals that have emerged in the last decade on this topic, and will be a useful resource for student and researcher alike. With comprehensive coverage of this field, key concepts will be explored. These include social cognition, prey and predator detection, habitat selection, mating and parenting, development, genetics, physiology, memory, learning and perception. Attention is also given to animal-human co-evolution and interaction, and animal welfare. All entries are under the purview of acknowledged experts in the field.
Author : Peter M. Kappeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783540283744
Cooperative behaviour has been one of the enigmas of evolutionary theory. This book examines the many facets of cooperative behaviour in primates and humans. It bridges the gap between parallel research in primatology and studies of humans, and highlights both common principles and aspects of human uniqueness, with respect to cooperative behaviour.
Author : Walter D. Koenig
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Animal societies
ISBN : 9781316491065
Author : Valentine Federico
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :
Cooperative breeding is a social system in which only dominant individuals access reproduction while subordinates, which are mostly their previous offspring, care for the young. The evolution of cooperative breeding may be explained by non-exclusive hypotheses including indirect fitness gains, high costs of dispersal in harsh environments, or compensation by group-size benefits. In order to shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms of cooperative breeding, we used an interspecific approach focused on the phylogenetic reconstruction of the coevolution of the three constitutive traits (delayed dispersal, reproductive suppression and alloparenting) in the mammalian orders where it occurs. We showed that evolutionary pathways to cooperative breeding in Primates and Carnivores were different in terms of directionality and stability of intermediate combinations. We also suggested climate variables displaying an association with cooperative breeding to be actually associated with different constitutive traits, and therefore different evolutionary steps. This thesis thus emphasized the importance of treating complex social systems as combinations of their constitutive traits rather than indivisible sets. This approach is especially relevant for rare social systems, as it also provides a methodological answer to rarity-related issues. It also stressed that highly similar social systems could actually be underlain by strikingly different evolutionary processes depending on taxa.
Author : M.G.L. Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 1990-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780044453284
This beast has a stone in its eye, also called an Yena, which is believed to make a person able to foresee the future if he keeps it under his tongue. It is true that if an Yena walks round an animal three times, the animal cannot move. For this reason they affirm that it has some sort of magic skill about it. (Translated from Latin, from the twelfth century Bestiary in the University of Cambridge Library. ) Perhaps it is not merely fortuitous that of all the African animals, the ancients should have selected the hyaena as a vehicle for magical powers. Of course, there are solid scientific explanations for this; the animals' nocturnal habits around human habitation, the consumption of people's mortal remains, the spectacular hermaphroditic appearance, the uncanny similarity between the calls of a spotted hyaena and the utterances of deranged humanity. But apart from all rational explanations for the strange hold of the animal over people, there is a magic about hyaenas which can only be understood by those who have watched them for some time. There is a now growing band of us, who came to the African bush with all our prejudices, with all that 'common knowledge' about hyaenas which proved so totally wrong, and who just fell for the spell of animals which were so totally different.
Author : Alan F. Dixson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1108426182
The first detailed account of post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproduction in mammals.