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Author : Mary E. Nossek
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Aggressive Behavior in Female Wolf Spiders written by Mary E. Nossek and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie S. Norton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Mating Behavior and Mate Preference in Schizocosa Ocreata Wolf Spiders written by Stephanie S. Norton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Size, but different tuft sizes) simultaneously in a choice chamber once/day over 4 days. The repeatability of female preference varied with the nature of the choice. Female preference for larger tufts was significant and repeatable (r = 0.65) when choosing between an average male and one with reduced tufts, but not when choosing between an average male and one with enlarged tufts. This may be an indication of a threshold trait. To examine variation in receptivity with age post-adulthood, I studied responses of females to a courting male video. Receptivity varied significantly with age post-adulthood: females were more aggressive and less receptive to video images of courting males in the first week, became significantly more receptive after 3 weeks, and less thereafter. Correlated changes in aggressive and receptivity behavior may suggest a physiological linkage. These studies demonstrate the importance of female focused dies of sexual selection, indicating that the female predominantly controls the mating system of S. ocreata wolf spiders.
Author : Julianna L. Johns
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Coercive Male Mating Behavior in the Brush-legged Wolf Spider Schizocosa Ocreata (Hentz) written by Julianna L. Johns and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coercive (forced) mating has evolved in many animal species because it likely increases male fitness. Coercive male mating behavior is uncommon in spiders, as females are larger and potentially cannibalistic. In Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz) wolf spiders, females usually respond to male courtship with receptivity, although males sometimes force unreceptive females to copulate. Multivariate analysis of mating trials revealed distinct behavior patterns (e.g., aggressive male behavior; female resistance) allowing designation as coercive vs. cooperative. Males were also observed to use fangs during coercive mating, resulting in hemolymph loss and scarring in females (not seen in unmated females, and less frequent in other matings). Experimental immobilization of male fangs resulted in no significant difference in mating success, but reduced copulation duration compared to controls. The frequency of coercion in this species (11.7% of matings) suggests a possible alternative male behavioral tactic in response to female resistance.
Author : Marie Elisabeth Herberstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494783
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Spider Behaviour written by Marie Elisabeth Herberstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spiders show surprising cognitive abilities, changing their behaviour to suit their situational needs. The team of authors unravels the considerable intra-specific as well as intra-individual variability and plasticity in different behaviours ranging from foraging and web building to communication and courtship. An introductory chapter on spider biology, systematics and evolution provides the reader with the necessary background information to understand the discussed behaviours and helps to place them into an evolutionary context. Highlighting an under-explored area of behaviour, this book will provide new ideas for behavioural researchers and students unfamiliar with spiders as well as a valuable resource for those already working in this intriguing field.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323990959
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 54 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Mobbing in animals: a thorough review and proposed future directions, Learned components of courtship: a focus on gestures, choreographies and construction abilities, Sexual selection in the true bugs, and Brain-behavior relationships of cognition in vertebrates: lessons from amphibians, Pre-Copulatory and Copulatory Courtship in Male-Dimorphic Arthropods. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in Advances in the Study of Behavior Updated release includes the latest information on Advances in the Study of Behavior
Author : Yngve Espmark
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9788251915458
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Animal Signals written by Yngve Espmark and published by Tapir Academic Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain the peacock's beautiful tail decorations, or the wonderful song of the nightingale? Why are some smells nice and others nasty? How do animals signal their intentions and qualities to potential partners? How do offspring tell parents about their needs? Are signals tuned to the environment, and to the mental abilities of receivers? Essential for understanding how animals cope with their ecological and social environment, the study of animal signals is one of the most active research areas in evolutionary biology. Understanding the signalling systems of nature has wide-ranging relevance including biological conservation and human communication. Written by international scientists, this is a comprehensive overview of the fascinating diversity of animal signals and signalling functions. Combining reviews and research, the book is aimed at both students and professional scientists.
Author : Rainer Foelix
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199734828
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Biology of Spiders written by Rainer Foelix and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the only books to treat the whole spider, from its behavior and physiology to its neurobiology and reproductive characteristics, Biology of Spiders is considered a classic in spider literature. First published in German in 1979, the book is now in its third edition, and has established itself as the supreme authority on these fascinating creatures. Containing five hundred new references, this book incorporates the latest research while dispelling many oft-heard myths and misconceptions that surround spiders. Of special interest are chapters on the structure and function of spider webs and silk, as well as those on spider venom. A new subchapter on tarantulas will appeal especially to tarantula keepers and breeders. The highly accessible text is supplemented by exceptional, high-quality photographs, many of them originals, and detailed diagrams. It will be of interest to arachnologists, entomologists, and zoologists, as well as to academics, students of biology, and the general reader curious about spiders.
Author : Alfredo V. Peretti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319178946
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods written by Alfredo V. Peretti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of arthropods such as spiders, harvestmen, flies, moths, crickets, earwigs, beetles, eusocial insects, shrimp and crabs are discussed. Sexual selection is currently the focus of numerous and controversial theoretical and experimental studies. Selection in mating and post-mating patterns can be shaped by several different mechanisms, including sperm competition, extreme sexual conflict and cryptic female choice. Discrimination among males during or after copulation is called cryptic female choice because it occurs after intromission, the event that was formerly used as the definitive criterion of male reproductive success and is therefore usually difficult to detect and confirm. Because it sequentially follows intra- and intersexual interactions that occur before copulation, cryptic female choice has the power to alter or negate precopulatory sexual selection. However, though female roles in biasing male paternity after copulation have been proposed for a number of species distributed in many animal groups, cryptic female choice continues to be often underestimated. Furthermore, in recent years the concept of sexual conflict has been frequently misused, linking sexual selection by female choice irrevocably and exclusively with sexually antagonistic co-evolution, without exploring other alternatives. The book offers an essential source of information on how two fields, selective cooperation and individual sex interests, work together in the context of cryptic female choice in nature, using arthropods as model organisms. It is bound to spark valuable discussions among scientists working in evolutionary biology across the world, motivating new generations to unveil the astonishing secrets of sexual biology throughout the animal kingdom.
Author : Jeffrey Podos
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 044319355X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by Jeffrey Podos and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties? Copulatory quiescence in arachnid females, and more. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in Advances in the Study of Behavior Updated release includes the latest information on behavior
Author : Robert L. Smith
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 032314313X
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating systems written by Robert L. Smith and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating Systems describes the role of sperm competition in selection on a range of attributes from gamete morphology to species mating systems. This book is organized into 19 chapters and begins with the conceptualization of sperm competition as a subset of sexual selection and its implications for the insects. The following chapter describes the relationship between multiple mating and female fitness, with an emphasis on determining the conditions under which selection on females is likely to counteract selection on males for avoiding sperm competition. Other chapters consider the female perspective on sperm competition; the evolutionary causation at the level of the individual male gamete; and the correlation of high paternal investment and sperm precedence in the insects. The remaining chapters are arranged phylogenetically and explore the sperm competition in diverse animal taxa, such as the Drosophila, Lepidoptera, spiders, amphibians, and reptiles. These chapters also cover the evolution of direct versus indirect sperm transfer among the arachnids or the problem for kinship theory presented by multiple mating and sperm competition in the Hymenoptera. This book further discusses the remarkable potential for sperm competition among certain temperate bat species whose females store sperm through winter hibernation and the mixed strategies and male-caused female genital trauma as possible sperm competition adaptations in poeciliid fishes. The concluding chapter examines the predictions concerning testes size and mating systems in the primates and the possible role of sperm competition in human selection. This book is of great value to reproductive biologists and researchers.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124159427
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Spider Physiology and Behaviour written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in this series contains articles on Arachnid Physiology and Behaviour.The papers in this special issue give rise to key themes for the future. Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology Discusses arachnid physiology and behavior Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines
Author : Kevin J. Delaney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Communication in the Contexts of Courtship and Aggression in Two Ethospecies of Wolf Spider (Araneae: Lycosidae) written by Kevin J. Delaney and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Stevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019960178X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution written by Martin Stevens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It deals with both mechanistic questions (e.g.
Author : Rui F. Oliveira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469525
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Alternative Reproductive Tactics written by Rui F. Oliveira and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and eggs, while others sneak into nests while pairs are spawning and fertilise those eggs? The field offers a special opportunity to study the evolution and functional causes of phenotypic variation, which is a general problem in the field of evolutionary biology. By integrating both mechanistic (psychological) and evolutionary (behavioural ecology) perspectives and by covering a great diversity of species, Alternative Reproductive Tactics addresses this integrated topic of longstanding interest, bringing together a multitude of otherwise scattered information in an accessible form that is ideal for graduate students and researchers.
Author : Milton Davis Huettel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489934871
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior written by Milton Davis Huettel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the preface to Sir Vincent B. Wigglesworth's classic 1939 book on insect physiology he asserted that insects provide an ideal medium in which to study all the problems of physiology. A strong case can be made as well for the use of insects as significant systems for the study of behavior and genetics. Contributions to genetics through decades of research on Drosophila species have made this small fly the most important metazoan in genetics research. At the same time, population and behavioral research on insects and other invertebrates have provid ed new perspectives that can be combined with the genetics approach. Through such in tegrated research we are able to identify evolutionary genetics of behavior as a highly signifi cant emerging area of interest. These perspectives are ably described by Dr. Guy Bush in the introductory chapter of this book. During March 21-24, 1983, many of the world's leading scientists in invertebrate behavioral genetics were drawn together in Gainesville, Florida, for a colloquium entitled "Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior." This conference was sponsored jointly by the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, chaired by Dr. Daniel Shankland, and the Insect Attractants, Behavior and Basic Biology Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, directed then by Dr. Derrell Chambers.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128132523
Total Pages : 3052 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 3052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Second Edition, Four Volume Set the latest update since the 2010 release, builds upon the solid foundation established in the first edition. Updated sections include Host-parasite interactions, Vertebrate social behavior, and the introduction of ‘overview essays’ that boost the book's comprehensive detail. The structure for the work is modified to accommodate a better grouping of subjects. Some chapters have been reshuffled, with section headings combined or modified. Represents a one-stop resource for scientifically reliable information on animal behavior Provides comparative approaches, including the perspective of evolutionary biologists, physiologists, endocrinologists, neuroscientists and psychologists Includes multimedia features in the online version that offer accessible tools to readers looking to deepen their understanding
Author : Konrad Lorenz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156687416
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (874 download)
Download or read book On Aggression written by Konrad Lorenz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subject of this book is aggression, that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is direced against members of the same species"--Introduction.
