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Mammal Societies
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Author : Tim Clutton-Brock
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-04-20
Mammal Societies written by Tim Clutton-Brock and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-20 with Science categories.
The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of females, before covering those of males, cooperative societies and hominid societies. It reviews our current understanding both of the structure of societies and of the strategies of individuals; it combines coverage of relevant areas of theory with coverage of interspecific comparisons, intraspecific comparisons and experiments; it explores both evolutionary causes of different traits and their ecological consequences; and it integrates research on different groups of mammals with research on primates and humans and attempts to put research on human societies into a broader perspective.
Survival Strategies
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Author : Raghavendra Gadagkar
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001-05-15
Survival Strategies written by Raghavendra Gadagkar and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-15 with Nature categories.
Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.
Rodent Societies
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Author : Jerry O. Wolff
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Rodent Societies written by Jerry O. Wolff and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Science categories.
Rodent Societies synthesizes and integrates the current state of knowledge about the social behavior of rodents, providing ecological and evolutionary contexts for understanding their societies and highlighting emerging conservation and management strategies to preserve them. It begins with a summary of the evolution, phylogeny, and biogeography of social and nonsocial rodents, providing a historical basis for comparative analyses. Subsequent sections focus on group-living rodents and characterize their reproductive behaviors, life histories and population ecology, genetics, neuroendocrine mechanisms, behavioral development, cognitive processes, communication mechanisms, cooperative and uncooperative behaviors, antipredator strategies, comparative socioecology, diseases, and conservation. Using the highly diverse and well-studied Rodentia as model systems to integrate a variety of research approaches and evolutionary theory into a unifying framework, Rodent Societies will appeal to a wide range of disciplines, both as a compendium of current research and as a stimulus for future collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
Animals And Society
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Author : Margo DeMello
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012
Animals And Society written by Margo DeMello and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.
Primate Societies
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Author : Barbara B. Smuts
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-06-03
Primate Societies written by Barbara B. Smuts and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with Science categories.
Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich source of ideas about other taxa. "A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of non-human primates."—Alan Dixson, Nature
Australian Mammal Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-06
Australian Mammal Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06 with categories.
Animal Social Complexity
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Author : Frans B. M. de Waal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Animal Social Complexity written by Frans B. M. de Waal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with categories.
For over 25 years, primatologists have speculated that intelligence, at least in monkeys and apes, evolved as an adaptation to the complicated social milieu of hard-won friendships and bitterly contested rivalries. Yet the Balkanization of animal research has prevented us from studying the same problem in other large-brained, long-lived animals, such as hyenas and elephants, bats and sperm whales. Social complexity turns out to be widespread indeed. For example, in many animal societies one individual's innovation, such as tool use or a hunting technique, may spread within the group, thus creating a distinct culture. As this collection of studies on a wide range of species shows, animals develop a great variety of traditions, which in turn affect fitness and survival. The editors argue that future research into complex animal societies and intelligence will change the perception of animals as gene machines, programmed to act in particular ways and perhaps elevate them to a status much closer to our own. At a time when humans are perceived more biologically than ever before, and animals as more cultural, are we about to witness the dawn of a truly unified social science, one with a distinctly cross-specific perspective?
Analyzing Animal Societies
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Author : Hal Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Analyzing Animal Societies written by Hal Whitehead and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Science categories.
Animals lead rich social lives. They care for one another, compete for resources, and mate. Within a society, social relationships may be simple or complex and usually vary considerably, both between different groups of individuals and over time. These social systems are fundamental to biological organization, and animal societies are central to studies of behavioral and evolutionary biology. But how do we study animal societies? How do we take observations of animals fighting, grooming, or forming groups and produce a realistic description or model of their societies? Analyzing AnimalSocieties presents a conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior and demonstrates how to put this framework into practice by collecting suitable data on the interactions and associations of individuals so that relationships can be described, and, from these, models can be derived. In addition to presenting the tools, Hal Whitehead illustrates their applicability using a wide range of real data on a variety of animal species—from bats and chimps to dolphins and birds. The techniques that Whitehead describes will be profitably adopted by scientists working with primates, cetaceans, birds, and ungulates, but the tools can be used to study societies of invertebrates, amphibians, and even humans. Analyzing AnimalSocieties will become a standard reference for those studying vertebrate social behavior and will give to these studies the kind of quality standard already in use in other areas of the life sciences.
Australian Mammal Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984-06
Australian Mammal Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-06 with categories.
Animal Societies
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Author : Rémy Chauvin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Animal Societies written by Rémy Chauvin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Animal societies categories.