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Author : Hans Kruuk
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Predators and Anti-predator Behaviour of the Black-headed Gull written by Hans Kruuk and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1964 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900461110X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Functional and Causal Aspects of Nest Distribution in Colonies of the Sandwich Tern (Sterna S. Sandv.) written by Veen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1977-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna Burger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468429884
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Behavior of Marine Animals written by Joanna Burger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maJonty of the chapters in this volume are structured to include a balance between literature review, original data, and synthesis. The research approaches taken by the authors are generallyof two kinds. One centers on the long-term, in-depth study of a single species in which many aspects of its natural history are examined in detail. The other is a comparative one which involves investigating particular questions by examining species or by comparing groups of species that may include taxonomic andjor ecological affinities. Most of the chapters concern obvious aspects of breeding behavior including habitat selection, the effects of age on breeding, communication, mating systems, synchrony of breeding activities, development of behavior, prefledging parental care, and postfledging parental care. Of these topics, many relate directly to the advantages and disadvantages of coloniality-a conspicuous behavior pattern in marine birds. As such, they provide para.picuou for the further study of coloniality and the social behaviorof many other animals. Other important areas of marine bird breeding behavior (such as courtship behavior, antipredator behavior, information transfer) have not been included because of space limitations. Since man's encroachment on the seashore and continental shelf poses certain threats to marine birds, a volume elucidating various aspects of their biology has multiple uses. As weil as being of value to ornithologists, the volume should be useful to managers involved with coastal planning.
Author : Timothy M. Caro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226094367
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals written by Timothy M. Caro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.
Author : Graham Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405144513
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Essential Animal Behavior written by Graham Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Animal Behavior provides a comprehensive introduction toall areas of the subject: from the genetic and neurobiologicalcontrol of behavior to the learning, development, and function ofbehavior in an evolutionary context. Social behaviour is alsocovered throughout the text. Written in a concise and engaging style, this new book: includes examples from both marine and terrestrial environmentsaround the world places current research alongside classic examples, and puts the study of animal behavior in an applied context,emphasizing the implications for animal welfare and animalconservation. Carefully designed to meet the needs of students coming to thesubject for the first time, the book includes the followingfeatures: key concept boxes Focus on boxes chapter summaries guided reading to aid revision and further study case studies and boxed examples that reinforce essentialpoints, and questions for discussion. This book is essential reading for degree-level studentsfollowing modular programs in biology, zoology, marine biology, andpsychology. An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Pleasecontact our Higher Education team at ahref="mailto:[email protected]"[email protected]/afor more information.
Author : Val Nolan Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461512115
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Current Ornithology written by Val Nolan Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Ornithology publishes authoritative, up-to-date, scholarly reviews of topics selected from the full range of current research in avian biology. Topics cover the spectrum from the molecular level of organization to population biology and community ecology. The series seeks especially to review 1) fields in which abundant recent literature will benefit from synthesis and organization, 2) newly emerging fields that are gaining recognition as the result of recent discoveries or shifts in perspective, and 3) fields in which students of vertebrates may benefit from comparisons of birds with other classes. All chapters are invited, and authors are chosen for their leadership in the subjects under review.
Author : Marian Stamp Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198569351
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Observing Animal Behaviour written by Marian Stamp Dawkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the reader to the power of observation before, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist for far more sophisticated analyses of observational data. At a time when animal welfare considerations are attracting political as well as scientific debate, the potential for non-intrusive studies on animals is being increasingly recognized. Observation emerges as a valuable alternative approach, often yielding highly informative results in situations (such as on zoos, farms or for wild animals) where more invasive experimental techniques would be undesirable, unethical or just plain impossible. However, to justify its place alongside experimentation as a rigorous scientific method, observation needs to be just as disciplined and systematic and have just as much attention paid to project design in the way that observations are made and recorded. Observing Animal Behaviour takes the reader through all these stages: from the initial observations, to the formulation of hypotheses, and their subsequent testing with further systematic observations. Although designed principally as a companion text for advanced undergraduate and students taking courses in animal behaviour, this accessible text will be essential reading for anyone wanting to study animal behaviour using observational methods rather than experimentation, and assumes no previous knowledge of animals, statistics or scientific method. It will be of particular relevance and use to those professional researchers and consultants in the behavioural sciences who seek a compact but comprehensive introduction to the quantitative observation of animal behaviour.
Author : Niko Tinbergen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674037243
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Animal in Its World written by Niko Tinbergen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen is generally acknowledged as the founder of the young science of ethology. These classic original studies will fascinate the increasing number of readers interested in the topical problems of animals and human behavior.
Author : University of California, Berkeley. University Extension
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Galápagos written by University of California, Berkeley. University Extension and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Niko Tinbergen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674037281
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Animal in Its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972), Volume Two: Laboratory Experiments and General Papers written by Niko Tinbergen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes accounts of Tinbergen's remarkable laboratory experiments as well as his significant general papers. The selections examine the animal roots of human behavior, the relation of behavior and natural selection, the character of appeasement signals, and the nature of ethology.
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780080582832
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Advances in the Study of Behavior written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1993-04-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Study of Behavior is the leading series in its field. Each volume includes a variety of review essays by experts providing authoritative overviews of key areas of current interest that are invaluable to the teacher, student, and researcher in the field of behavior, whether psychologist or biologist. This volume continues the tradition of excellence in the study of behavior by covering a whole range of biological and psychological research. Each of the chapters presents new ideas, with a particularly interesting approach to sexual coercion. The volume as a whole has a particular strength in the area of behavioral development, which is the main topic of the last three chapters.
Author : Dennis M. Power
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306433079
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Current Ornithology written by Dennis M. Power and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1983 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Burger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468446916
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Shorebirds written by J. Burger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among birds, shorebirds provide some of the more unique opportunities to examine basic problems in behavior, ecology, and evolution. This is in large measure due to the diversity, both behaviorally and ecologically, of a group closely related taxonomically and distributed throughout the world. The overall aim of these two volumes is to provide a representative selection of current research being conducted on shorebird behavior and ecology. Traditionally, marine birds have included those species that breed in large colonies on offshore islands along coasts (see Volume 4 of this series). Although shorebirds have generally not been considered within this group, the fact that almost 40% of the species breed along coasts and more than 60% often or always spend the nonbreeding season in coastal habitats more than justifies their inclusion as marine birds (at least those species that totally or partially depend upon the marine environment). Their inclusion markedly increases species diversity in marine birds since shorebirds add about 217 species to the 280 that are traditionally thought of as marine.
Author : Prof. Hans Kruuk
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784271829
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)
Download or read book The Call of Carnivores written by Prof. Hans Kruuk and published by Pelagic Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carnivores include some of the most impressive, dangerous and mysterious animals in the world. Hans Kruuk has spent his life studying them against magnificent backdrops, from the Serengeti savannahs and Kalahari deserts to the Scottish Highlands, from the Galápagos Islands to the Far East. In each location he has used meticulous observation of animal behaviour to understand the ecology and natural history of wild carnivore populations, and ultimately to promote their conservation. This book describes the methods, challenges and rewards of the science of behavioural ecology. However, it essentially concerns the personal, rather than the scientific, side of that work, and above all the field experiences involved. With photographs and line drawings, it brings to life African safaris, the hyena in his bath, flights with vultures, dives with otters, attacks by a badger in Scotland and by feral dogs in Galápagos, gull-eating hedgehogs in Britain and the role of animals in African witchcraft. The author communicates his lifelong fascination with wildlife through these unique experiences and the insights they afforded him. Professor Kruuk is a leading authority on animal behaviour and the author of classic studies of hyaenas, otters and badgers, as well as a biography of his Oxford mentor Niko Tinbergen.
Author : Donald Farner
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323157998
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Avian Biology written by Donald Farner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avian Biology,Volume VIII assesses selected aspects of avian biology. It is generally the conceptual descendant of Marshall's earlier treatise,“Biology and Comparative Physiology of Birds, but is more than simply a revision of it. This volume consists of two relatively lengthy, diverse chapters that focus on adaptive significance of coloniality in birds and fossil records of birds. In particular, this volume looks into group phenomena related to central place systems, that is, systems in which one or more individuals move to and from a centrally located place in the course of daily activities. It also addresses selective factors that have been suggested to explain why individuals should form colonies rather than disperse within the available foraging space. This book will be useful as a reference material for advanced students and instructors in this field of interest.
Author : Peter James Bramwell Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521429238
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Behaviour and Evolution written by Peter James Bramwell Slater and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most exciting recent advances in animal behaviour have occurred at the interface between that subject and the study of evolution. This book, written by experts in this area, illustrates how the profound changes in our understanding of evolution have influenced behavioural research. Its chapters span both studies of how behaviour itself has evolved, dealing with topics such as comparative studies, the genetics of behaviour, speciation and the evolution of sociality and of intelligence, and also the adaptiveness which this evolution has brought about, with treatment of mating and fighting strategies, and theories of kinship and altruism.Behaviour and Evolution will be invaluable to senior undergraduate and graduate students of biology and psychology, especially those studying animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, sociobiology, evolution, ecology and environmental biology.
Author : Ian Newton
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780080879239
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Population Limitation in Birds written by Ian Newton and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1998-04-08 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has now written a clear and detailed treatise on local scale population limiting factors in birds. It is based almost entirely on results from field studies, though it is set in a contemporary theoretical framework. The 16 chapters fall under three major section headings: Behavior and Density Regulation; Natural Limiting Factors; and Human Impacts. Population Limitation in Birds serves as a needed resource expanding on Dr. David Lacks research in this area of ornithology in the 1950s. It includes numerous line diagrams and beautiful illustrations by acclaimed wildlife artist Keith Brockie. Provides a sorely needed introduction to a long-established core subject in ornithology Focuses on local scale factors Written by a well-known biologist and effective communicator Includes numerous line diagrams and beautiful illustrations by acclaimed wildlife artist Keith Brockie
