Title: Carnivore behavior, ecology, and evolution /
Authors: Gittleman, John L.
Publisher: Comstock Pub. Associates,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Carnivora.; Carnivora
Contents: [v. 2.] Introduction : Carnivores and conservation biology / George B. Schaller -- pt. 1. Behavior. Ethics and the study of carnivores : doing science while respecting animals / Marc Bekoff and Dale Jamieson -- Behavioral endocrinology and social organization in dwarf mongooses / Scott Creel -- Female masculinization in the spotted hyena : endocrinology, behavioral ecology, and evolution / Laurence G. Frank -- The adaptive significance of color patterns in carnivores : phylogenetic tests of classic hypotheses / Alessia Ortolani and T.M. Caro -- Sympatry in Canids : a review and assessment / Warren E. Johnson, Todd K. Fuller, and William L. Franklin -- pt. 2. Ecology. Methodological advances in capture, census, and food-habits studies of large African carnivores / M.G.L. Mills -- Patterns of size separation in carnivore communities / Tamara Dayan and Daniel Simberloff -- Patterns and consequences of dispersal in gregarious carnivores / Peter M. Waser -- Carnivore reintroductions : an interdisciplinary examination / Richard P. Reading and Tim W. Clark -- Human/carnivor interactions : conservation and management implications from China / Kenneth G. Johnson [and others] -- pt. 3. Evolution. Competitors, companions, status symbols, or pests : a review of human associations with other carnivores / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- Design for killing : craniodental adaptations of predators / Audrone R. Biknevicius and Blaire Van Valkenburgh -- Genetic relatedness among individuals within carnivore societies / Matthew E. Gompper and Robert K. Wayne -- Demographic and historical effects on genetic variation of carnivores / Robert K. Wayne and Klaus-Peter Koepfli -- Biogeography of the order Carnivora / Robert M. Hunt, Jr. -- Carnivoran phylogeny and rates of evolution : morphological, taxic, and molecular / John J. Flynn -- Carnivoran ecomorphology : a phylogenetic perspective / Lars Werdelin.