Advances in the Study of Behavior [Hardcover]

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.

Chapter 1: Using Robots to Understand Animal Behavior

Chapter 2: Social Foraging and the Study of Exploitative Behavior

Chapter 3: Social Processes Influencing Learning in Animals: A Review of the Evidence

Chapter 4: Function and Mechanisms of Song Learning in Song Sparrows

Chapter 5: Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes

Chapter 6: Information Warfare and Parent-Offspring Conflict

Chapter 7: Hormones in Avian Eggs: Physiology, Ecology and Behavior

Chapter 8: Neurobiology of Maternal Behavior in Sheep

Chapter 9: Individual Odors and Social Communication: Individual Recognition, Kin Recognition, and Scent Over-Marking

Index

Contents of Previous Volumes

Jane Brockmann is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests are in the evolution of alternative strategies and tactics, sexual selection and the economics and mechanisms of decision making in animals; since 1990 her research has focused on the behavior of horseshoe crabs. She has authored more than 70 journal articles and book chapters; co-edited two books; and supervised 30 graduate students. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1976) and was anlÓE