Advances in the Study of Behavior

Herausgegeben:Mitani, John C.; Brockmann, H. Jane; Roper, Timothy J.; Naguib, Marc; Wynne-Edwards, Katherine E.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Advances in the Study of Behavior is now available online at ScienceDirect full-text online from volume 30 onward.

Produktdetails

• Advances in the Study of Behavior Volume 41
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2009-0-62151-6
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 21mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780123808929
• Artikelnr.: 29921315

Autorenporträt

John Mitani is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, U.S.A. He earned his AB from the University of California, Berkeley and PhD (1984) at the University of California, Davis. He conducted postdoctoral research and held faculty positions at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology (1984-1989) and the University of California, Davis (1989-1990) before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he is now the James N. Spuhler Collegiate Professor of Anthropology. Mitani conducts fieldwork on the social behavior and communication of apes and has published papers on all five kinds of living apes in Africa and Asia. His current research, initiated in 1995, involves a field study of an unusually large community of chimpanzees at Ngogo in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. In the past he has served as an Editor of Animal Behaviour and is currently an Associate Editor and on the Editorial Boards of the Inter

national Journal of Primatology, Journal of Human Evolution, and Primates. He has been an Editor for Advances in the Study of Behavior since 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The cognition of caching and recovery in food-storing birdsRaby, C.R. and Clayton, N.S
2. The Evolution of Mate Preferences, Sensory Biases and Indicator TraitsGREGORY F. GRETHER
3. Age-Related Changes in Birds' Singing Styles: on Fresh Tunes and Fading Voices?SILKE KIPPER1 and SARAH KIEFER
4. Tonic Commmunication in the Antipredator Behavior of Ground SquirrelsDonald H. Owings
5. Parasite manipulation of host behavior: an update and frequently asked questionsRobert Poulin
6. Calling in the Face of Danger? How Predation Risk Affects Acoustic Communication by Parent Birds and Their OffspringROBERT D. MAGRATH, TONYA M. HAFF, ANDREW G. HORN, MARTY L. LEONARD
7. Confounding variables in mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases and how to control themHeather M. Schellinck, David P. Cyr and Richard E. Brown

Rezensionen

"The series is designed for psychologists, zoologists, and psychiatrists, but will also be a valuable reference for workers in endocrinology, neurology, physiology, ethnology, and ecology." --Biological Abstracts