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Author : Susan Elisabeth Wynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Condition and Mate Choice in Captive Zebra Finches written by Susan Elisabeth Wynn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886716
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches (Princeton Science Library Edition) written by Peter R. Grant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his famous visit to the Galápagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends." This book is the classic account of how much we have since learned about the evolution of these remarkable birds. Based upon over a decade's research, Grant shows how interspecific competition and natural selection act strongly enough on contemporary populations to produce observable and measurable evolutionary change. In this new edition, Grant outlines new discoveries made in the thirteen years since the book's publication. Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches is an extraordinary account of evolution in action. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Huw Golledge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119555280
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
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Author : Richard A. Zann
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198540793
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Zebra Finch written by Richard A. Zann and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Zebra Finch is widely used by researchers and teachers in many scientific disciplines where it is the preferred subject for investigations ranging from anatomy and physiology to behavioural development and evolutionary ecology. This monograph is the first to synthesize the information on this colourful species that has accumulated during the past thirty years. It summarizes and integrates much of the laboratory work and places it in the context of the biology of the animals in the wild, with an emphasis on behaviour and ecology. This leads to a detailed understanding of Zebra Finch adaptations and life history that will further enhance the value of the species for researchers and students in behaviour, ecology, and other fields. Aviculturists who keep these attractive birds will also find much of interest in this book.
Author : Robert Earl Clelland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Generalization and Mate Choice Copying in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata) written by Robert Earl Clelland and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Ryan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191395
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book A Taste for the Beautiful written by Michael J. Ryan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Taste for the Beautiful, Michael Ryan, one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, tells the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Darwin left off, transforming our understanding of sexual selection and shedding new light on animal and human behavior. Drawing on cutting-edge science, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and, if so, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers lie in the brain--particularly of females, who act as biological puppeteers, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males."--Back cover
Author : Paul J. Greenwood
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521348973
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Evolution written by Paul J. Greenwood and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-07-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Maynard Smith was originally trained as an engineer but, despite important excursions into animal mechanics, ecology and ethology, he is now best known as an international authority on evolution. His pre-eminence is based in large part on original research contributions coupled with an uncanny ability for revealing simple explanations to apparently intractable problems. This wide-ranging volume contains a collection of new and original essays, all inspired by Maynard Smith's writings. The essays span the whole field of evolutionary biology: from microevolution to macroevolution; from evolutionarily stable strategies to sympatric speciation; and from population processes in plants to the arithmetic of assessment in animals.
Author : Tim Caro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355725
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology written by Tim Caro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-27 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just the last few years, behavioral ecologists have begun to address issues in conservation biology. This volume is the first attempt to link these disciplines formally. Here leading researchers explore current topics in conservation biology and discuss how behavioral ecology can contribute to a greater understanding of conservation problems and conservation intervention programs. In each chapter, the authors identify a conservation issue, review the ways it has been addressed, review behavioral ecological data related to it, including their own, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral ecological approach, and put forward specific conservation recommendations. The chapters juxtapose different studies on a wide variety of taxonomic groups. A number of common themes emerge, including the ways in which animal mating systems affect population persistence, the roles of dispersal and inbreeding avoidance for topics such as reserve design and effective population size, the key role of humans in conservation issues, and the importance of baseline data for conservation monitoring and modeling attempts. Each chapter sheds new light on conservation problems, generates innovative avenues of interdisciplinary research, and shows how conservation-minded behavioral ecologists can apply their expertise to some of the most important questions we face today.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128132523
Total Pages : 3052 pages
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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
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124072046
Total Pages : 505 pages
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Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Diane Lucille Livio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781267079473
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Sources of Variation in the Sexual Imprinting Responses of Zebra Finches written by Diane Lucille Livio and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research on sexual imprinting have revealed much about the importance of early contact with parents in shaping the mate preferences of altricial birds. Unfortunately, most experiments have subjected developing birds to long periods of social isolation, an unnatural condition that limits our ability to apply results to evolutionary contexts. Here, I performed experiments on zebra finches reared under semi-natural conditions to investigate the strength of imprinting in polymorphic populations and to elucidate the impact of nutritional stress on imprinting response. In the first experiment, zebra finches were raised in populations in which none, one-third or two-thirds of adults wore artificial, striped white crests. At maturity, their preferences for this phenotype were measured in mate choice trials. As expected, the strength of male preference for crested females varied directly with the frequency of crested adults in their natal population. Females, however, did not show a frequency-dependent imprinting response. Results indicate that birds reared in polymorphic populations have weaker and more variable imprinting responses than birds reared with restricted social contact. In my second experiment, I investigated whether the quality of the rearing diet affected the strength of male imprinting responses. Developmental stress can affect other cognitive functions, but its effect on sexual imprinting has not been investigated. Males were raised on diets low or high in protein and exposed to either crested or uncrested adults throughout development. As adults, their mate preferences for crested females were assayed both in mate choice trials and in an assortative pairing experiment. Males from the crested treatment significantly preferred crested females, and the majority of males paired with females matching their maternal phenotype. Diet had no influence on imprinting response though, indicating that this learning process is resistant to this source of stress.
Author : Peter O'Donald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521225335
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Genetic Models of Sexual Selection written by Peter O'Donald and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. Marler
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080473555
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nature's Music written by Peter R. Marler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature’s Music brings together some of the world’s experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of organisms. It is a model for the study of a wide variety of animal behaviour systems, ecological, evolutionary and neurobiological. Bird song sits at the intersection of breeding, social and cognitive behaviour and ecology. As such interest in this book will extend far beyond the purely ornithological - to behavioural ecologists psychologists and neurobiologists of all kinds. * The scoop on local dialects in birdsong* How birdsongs are used for fighting and flirting* The writers are all international authorities on their subject
Author : Mark Cathey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Mate Choice Copying in Australian Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata) written by Mark Cathey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus Immelmann
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Australian Finches in Bush and Aviary written by Klaus Immelmann and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon T. Sakata
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030346838
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Neuroethology of Birdsong written by Jon T. Sakata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal signals are central for social communication across a wide range of vertebrate species; consequently, it is critical to understand the mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and evolution of vocal communication. Songbirds are at the forefront of research into such neural mechanisms. Indeed, songbirds provide a particularly important model system for this endeavor because of the many parallels between birdsong and human speech. Specifically, (1) songbirds are one of the few vertebrate species that, like humans, learn their vocal signals during development, (2) the processes of song learning and control in songbirds shares many parallels with the process of speech acquisition in humans, and (3) there exist deep homologies between the circuits for the learning, control, and processing of vocal signals across songbirds and humans. In addition, because of the diversity of songbirds and song learning strategies, songbirds offer a powerful model system to use the comparative method to reveal mechanisms underlying the evolution of song learning and production. Taken together, research on songbirds can not only reveal general principles underlying vertebrate vocal communication but can also provide insight into potential mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and processing of speech. This volume will cover a range of topics in birdsong spanning multiple level of analysis. Chapters will be authored by the world’s leading experts on birdsong and will provide comprehensive reviews of the processes underlying song learning, of the neural circuits for song learning and control as well as for the extraction and processing of song information, of the selection pressures underlying song evolution, and of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the learning and evolution of song. The primary goals of this volume are to provide comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and to underscore the importance of birdsong to biomedical research, evolutionary biology, and behavioral, systems, and computational neuroscience.The target audience of this volume will be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established academics and neuroscientists who are interested in mechanisms of communication from an integrative and comparative perspective. The volume is intended to function as a high-profile and contemporary reference on current work related to the learning, control, processing, and evolution of birdsong. This volume will have broad appeal to comparative and sensory biologists, neurophysiologists, and behavioral, systems, and cognitive neuroscientists who attend meetings such as the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroethology, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Because of the relevance of birdsong research to understanding human speech, it is likely that the volume will also be of interest to speech researchers and clinicians researching communication, motor, and sensory processing disorders.
Author : Amanda Karen Houck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Repeatability of Mate Preferences and Mate-choice Copying in Female Zebra Finches written by Amanda Karen Houck and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
